The future is made up of the same stuff as the present.

Ritsuko Araki

Today, people often say that we must do this, we must do that, for the
future generation. Some rules have been decided and some promises have been made. Now, we are here, where people have to try to keep them.

Some years ago, some nations stated that they would started to reduce the proportion of CO2 emitted over the next years in order not to make global warming any worse. But at an international conference in Kyoto, the main countries which had produced a lot of CO2 didn't accept this decision. Japan accepted it but actually, we don't follow the decision, as proof, the rate of CO2 in Japan is absolutely going up compared to when the conference was held.

Now, where we are living has been made up from a result of what people of many years ago did, that is to say, what we are doing now will lead to the future. If this situation as above continues, the world environment will be getting worse and worse without fail. If what we are doing now is not so good, it is surely not so good for the future as well because it is sure that what we have done and will do, comes back in the future. It is the next, the next next or the next next next generation who is going to suffer from the present generation.

It is quite hard to imagine that people of the present generation will be
still living after 100 years but there must be a lot of the next generation's
people in this world. We have to live considering the future but who can
really think about it seriously? It is difficult because nobody can see the
future, and after all, people consider themselves as the most important
people.