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If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.
— Address to the House of Lords (19 November 2010)
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Pugh says leaving children a damaged environment would be a failure on our part. The measure is what the next generation inherits, not what we enjoy now. It's a plain appeal to responsibility that treats sustainability as something owed to them.
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