Letters - 19 August 2011

From the YMG epistle to population and sustainability

by The Friend 19th August 2011

Yearly Meeting Gathering Epistle

I was shocked to read the words ‘We have not only inherited the earth from our ancestors: we have borrowed it from our children and from their children’ in the Epistle from Yearly Meeting Gathering.

We have not inherited the earth. It is entrusted to us to look after for the benefit of those who come after. I do not know enough about the law to know whether taking assets, that we are unable to pay back, out of our children’s and grandchildren’s trust fund to pay for central heating or cars is fraud or theft. However, I am absolutely certain that it is not borrowing.