Intergenerational Remote Tyranny

Photo contributed via flickr, taken by Zoriah Soweto

It exists.

Written by Nabilah D., John L., Joel E., Garrett E.

Intergenerational remote tyranny is the ideology that our generation today is limiting and devastating the generations of the future. Without consideration of their actions, generations of people have left a world littered with garbage, pollution, starvation, and massive complications for the next generation to inherit. This horrendous action has been noted and observed by the multitudes, but the problem has yet to be resolved. Many individuals do not realize the greater impact their actions and behaviors have in relation to the environment, and to the future generation.

Not intentionally wishing harm, they nonetheless have contributed to a cycle of indifference to the consequences of their actions by littering and hacking away at mother nature while ignoring the resulting effects. For many, it is easier and less time consuming to merely throw your trash on the floor, your recyclables in the recycle bin. Productivity and efficiency is the way to go in our modern age: however, for the future generation, what way can they go but down? As can be seen in the novel Cradle to Cradle, this form of tyranny--of dominating and using all the resources, all the pleasures of this life, without consideration that the future generation needs many resources as well--cannot continue.