Preventing Conflicts Between Generations

Denis Kessler

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 1996, vol. 21, issue 4, 435-468

Abstract: It takes more than one generation before an olive tree bears fruit. A newly planted forest takes about one century before rising to its full height Generations come and go before anything can be gained from the ground where a swamp was drained and, regardless of the reasons that those who planted the olive trees and the forests or drained the swamps had, it is possible that they gave little or no thought to the norms which dictated their behaviour and to the function of these norms: to ensure collective survival.Dieter Birnbacher, «La responsabilité envers les générations futures», PUF, 1994

Date: 1996
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