Question

“We have not inherited the world from our forefathers – we have borrowed it from our children.” Explain.

Answer 1

It means that the resources that you are using today are not given to you by elder generations, they belong to the future generations. So we must use them in such a way that they are sufficient for the present as well as the future.Just think that you are using something that is borrowed.

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.