Question

We have not inherited the world from our forefathers meaning but borrowed it from our children.Discuss

Answer 1

All it means that

This earth is not our property but we borrowed this from our coming generation

So we should conserve this property

And there should be wise use of the resources

Answer 2

Lester Brown believes that the present population of the earth has no right to think that the earth is its property. Each one has to believe that he is having full responsibility to keep the earth protected from all kinds of misuse. He has to feel that the earth is place that he has to return to the generations to come. Brown further furnishes that human beings have no right to misuse the earth because we are accountable to the new generations after us.