Can Future Generations Correctly be Said to Have Rights?
Author(s)
Macklin, Ruth
Abstract
Argues against the view that future generations have rights. An excerpt: “The ascription of rights is properly to be made to actual persons — not possible persons. Since future generations can only be viewed as consisting of possible persons, from any vantage point at which the description “future generations” is applicable, it would follow . . . that rights cannot properly be ascribed to future generations.”
