Protecting rights of unborn children

The Council for Posterity, a project of the Institute for Social Inventions (UK), has produced the following Declaration on the Rights of Future Generations: Those who live after us have no voice amongst us / We therefore declare and determine their right to inherit a planet which has been treated by use with respect for its richness, its beauty and its diversity / a planet whose atmosphere is life-giving and good, and can remain so for aeons to come / a planet whose resources have been carefully maintained and whose forms of life retain their diversity / a planet whose soil has been preserved from erosion with both soil and water unpoisoned by the waste of our living / a planet whose people apply their technologies cautiously with consideration for the long-term consequences / a planet whose people live in human-scale societies unravaged by population excess / a planet whose future generation have interests which are represented and protected in the decision-making councils of those alive today.