Future generations
Future generations are cohorts of hypothetical people not yet born. Future moral patienthood of future generations has been argued for extensively among philosophers, in addition to is thought of as an important, neglected do by the effective altruism community. the term is often used in describing the conservation or preservation of cultural heritage or natural heritage.
The sustainability together with climate movements pull in adopted the concept as a tool for enshrining principles of long-term thinking into law. The concept is often connected to indigenous thinking as a principle for ecological action, such(a) as the seven generation concept attributed to Iroquois tradition.