Future people have no rights, so how are their future interests to be safeguarded? How are they to be protected from the depradations of living people?

For the most part today’s religions, social attitudes, and governance structures discriminate against future people. If we care about the welfare of future generations, what can we do?

Two books have been published that outline a coherent ideology embodying respect for all undeceased people. Governance is the subject of Democracy or Survival (DorS). A proposal for post-Christian ethics is presented in Biosphere Crisis (BC), which is a new & revised edition of Must Future People Suffer? (no longer in print) and Democracy & the Biosphere Crisis. The author is Geoffrey Harper.

Is there any campaigning organization or institution devoted to the interests of future people, and especially far-future people (those whom we shall never know)? If not, one is needed, and perhaps it will grow from this embryo website.

Our goal must be to create a world where we can all live […] with dignity […] without undermining future generations’ ability to do the same     Gro Harlem Brundtland

Some people do not see ensuring the welfare of future generations as a high priority      Nicholas Stern

The world cannot afford more Americans    Paul & Anne Ehrlich

[…] the market ignores the needs of future people     Avner de-Shalit

 […] seven billion living as we do, and aspire to do, is too many for a planet that tries to self-regulate its climate   James Lovelock The Vanishing Face of Gaia

what harm would it have done us to have remained uncreated?   Lucretius De rerum natura

If human happiness is what matters, then surely future people are as morally significant as present people     Tim Mulgan  Ethics for a Broken World

no human has the right to diminish the life & well-being of another, and no generation has the right to inflict harm on generations to come. […]   David Orr  Down to the Wire