This submission belongs to the session i. General and Related Topics of the event The 1st World Sustainability Forum
Published date
12 Nov, 2011
Citation
Juergen Bilger, Childless-workless-worthless:Futures and Environments of our Children, in Proceedings of The 1st World Sustainability Forum, 1 November–30 November 2011, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi: 10.3390/wsf-00556
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Childless-workless-worthless:Futures and Environments of our Children
Juergen Bilger 1
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Abstract
In Europe decreasing birthrates (and ageing) and diminishing classical work employmentrates (esp. for the youth)seem to destabilise, even devaluate our future and our offspring(esp. young males).The conventional solutions "growth" appear to be more and more restricted structurally: Childlessness as consequence of womens good education, employment and contraception appears hardly reversible.Joblessness too is structurally driven by innovation, capitalisation and globalisation. Worthless, even ill feel our European children (esp sons), if thus they grow up isolated with psycho-social disturbances, marginalised from work, economics and ploitics and overburdened by debts, financial and environmental crises."Radical losers" (Enzensberger 2006) like they should cause fear (thus change) similarily to that from from other (islamic, poor, over-)populations.Other fears:f.i. of( self) extinction, of (islamic) colonisation, of (economical)pauperisation or loss of (material) power lead to the standard answer: Growth! Nevertheless environmemnt , sustainibility and posterity would profit most from these "natural" trends to schrinking population, work and consumption.
Keywords
children
shrinking
work
birthrates
values,
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