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For the first time in human history, one generation is passing on to the next a deliberately degraded world. This is not an accident. It is the balance sheet of a model. Where earlier generations handed down cultivated land, living languages, standing institutions, and accumulated knowledge, the legacy now taking shape is something altogether different: an unprecedented planetary liability.
Even the most devastating wars left behind a physically intact world, still capable of regeneration. What the baby-boomer generation is preparing to pass on is of another nature entirely: fractured ecosystems, a destabilized climate, depleted natural resources, and an ecological bill that future generations will have to pay without ever having signed the cheque.
This podcast examines the historical responsibility of a prosperity model built on the overexploitation of the living world, cheap energy, and the illusion of limitless growth. It raises a central question: how can intergenerational justice be conceived when one generation consumes the planet as available capital and leaves the next to bear the environmental, moral, and material costs of that predation?
