Anything that people do in the coming years from creating original art & music; to solving the world's greenhouse gases situation; to building the next layer of infrastructure - it will all be done by our children. It's not an exaggeration to say the future of our race is dependent upon them.
So with this acknowledged awareness of the hyper-critical role they will play, why aren't we throwing endless resources at them to ensure their education and welfare is top notch - the absolute best we can make it?
In this perspective is it selfish to want to divert resources from education to Healthcare so some 50, 60, or 70 year old can get a few more years on Earth. Were they your resource decisions to make, would you allocate investment to keeping yourself here or looking after your own kids ... what would you do ?
Just look at the news and current events and issues around at the moment and take the children - first perspective. While I'm not suggesting we throw in the towel on the current adult generations, the debates that occur strike me as very self serving.
- Take the needed funding for UK universities out of geriatric care or lung cancer research.
- Invest in classroom technology and education infrastructure instead of buying new fighter jets in Canada, where their primary role is airshows
- Attend to the principle issues in the 3rd world around infant mortality rather than hosting lavish G20 meeting with their inherent security costs measures in the $B's.
Let's put our money and brains where our future is.
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