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Inter Gen Equity
Inter Gen Equity
Inter Gen Equity
the 1972 Stockholm Declaration. These principles lay down the solemn
responsibility of the man to safeguard the natural resources of the earth for
the benefit of the present and future generations through careful planning
equity for the present but of intergenerational equity. And thus the wheel of
human reasoning came full circle 200 years ago the Isopanishad had stated:
“All, in this manifest world, consisting of moving or nonmoving, are governed by the Lord. Use its
resources with
to come.”
“We are not oblivious of the fact that natural resources have
because:
deplete all the existing forests and leave nothing for the next
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by following the natural method, though the harvest is small but sustainable
over long periods and it has no adverse effect on the environment and