Apologizing to future generations

A letter of apology to the future was presented in 1993 on World Environment Day by the Conservation Foundation (UK) on the launching of a Year of Apology and Pledge. The letter was represented on the 1994 World Environment Day and buried in a time capsule.

1. We have not inherited the Earth from our grandparents; we have borrowed it from our grandchildren Chinese saying).

1. Apologizing

1. Uniting generations
2. Researching futures
3. Holding society accountable to the past and future
4. Envisioning future development
5. Ensuring government apologize for errors
6. Enlarging community social vision
7. Creating desired futures
8. Channelling future generation energies
9. Articulating future vision

1. Protecting rights of unborn children
2. Predicting future costs of present policies
3. Advocating for posterity

1. Sacrificing present generations for the future
2. Abstaining from the future