Table of Contents

Part 1: Should intrinsic value be placed on the preservation of mankind? - obligations to posterity, Thomas Schartz; do potential people have moral rights?, Mary Warren; in defence of the potentiality principle, William Anglin; future people and us, Jan Narveson; on maximizing happiness, Jonathan Bennett; environmental ethics and obligations to future generations, Robert Scott Jr.; classical Utilitarianism and the population optimum, L.W. Sumner; is it wrong to prevent the existence of future generations?, R.I. Sikora. Part 2 Assuming that future generations will exist and that the future population size is taken as given, what obligations do we have to future generations? - discounting versus maximum sustainable yield, Mary B. Williams; the futurity problem, Gregory Kavka; circumstances of justice and future generations, Brian Barry.