Waug Kids Should Have Certain Human Rights!

If kids born in 2050 to 2099 are going to have droughts, fierce storms, wildfires, rising seas that devastate large populated area in southern Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and huge area filled with dense populations making their living near the ocean in Bangladesh and other low-lying areas, where will the displaced people from those area go? Who wants them? Who will tolerate them?

Kids of the future will face mass migrations of people toward places with better land for crops. Places not overwhelmed by rising seawater. Places that are more comfortable in summer. Places where crops grow without so many grasshoppers swarming in. Places that have less hurricanes, typhoons, and tornadoes. Where will that be? You can hear people crying "Not in my neighborhood!"

Well, if people have the right to live, isn't it a crime against humanity to allow the production of CO2 and the release of methane to continue uncontrolled?

If you think of the worsening Earth, with tropical diseases spreading into "temperate" zones, and hungry, desperate people literally dying on their way to a better life, what about your kid's children? Your great grandchildren, and their kids? They are "WAUG" kids, unable to ask their question now, but sure to ask it one day? "Hey, What About Us?" This "What About Us" Generation (WAUG) crowd is being cheated by the way we are currently living on Earth, abusing the systems that keep us alive, spoiling so many vital resources, particularly the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land that grows our food.

At the top of the last post in this blog, I gave the reference for the article I helped Professor Donald A. Brown of Penn State publish in his climate ethics blog. Definitely, by neglecting to control the pollution that is creating the climate problems, a country is violating the human rights of people even right now. But what about the rights of kids born in the future?

Do you want to live in a country that "could have done something," but was too ignorant, too greedy, to cold hearted to do something before things got a lot worse? Are you going to be considered as a member of the "Great Do Nothings Generation," or GDNG? I don't. I hope you will join me in trying to make this world a tiny bit better, with people being kind and just and responsible ragarding others, and regarding the Earth, too, as the home of their future descendants, the "WAUG" kids. Speak up for them - they are as yet voiceless, but surely as they are born, they will have needs. We must not let them down.

James P. Louviere, "DrHanzonScience" You can find my plans for creating a better world legacy at Music for a Better World Legacy.