Most scientists agree that our present dependency on fossil fuels is warming the globe. Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880, much of this in recent decades, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (National Geographic). If global warming continues at the current pace scientist estimate that in 1.9 million years the world as we know it will cease to exist.
Do we have moral obligations toward future people? Some people would argue that have no obligation to people who do not exist yet. We have only to examine Parfit’s no difference view to refute this premise (Parfit). He illustrates this rule by using a medical example. Suppose a pregnant woman was told that…show more content… These people are not aware in which stage of development is the civilization and probably they will decide to save money for the upcoming generations in the future. The just savings principle refers to the fact that all offices and positions, or jobs in general, should be available to all. Rawls’ idea of justice as fairness is extended to generations, instead of being created only for contemporaries. The ‘just saving principle’ clearly shows the idea for inter-generational equity that, according to Rawls, requires each generation to see itself as being merely one stage in general progression through all the generations of history. In his later work, ‘’Political Liberalism’’, Rawls claims that in its final version the ‘correct principle’ becomes: That which the members of any generation (and so all generations) would adopt as the one their generation is to follow and as the principle they would want preceding generations to have followed (and latter generations to follow no matter how far back (or forward) in
