I wonder what our grandchildren and our great grandchildren, when they ask themselves that question,

But some of our grandchildren probably will.

Waste on one hand, and poverty and depravation and hunger on the other

So when I think of that, I wonder what our grandchildren and our great grandchildren, when they ask themselves that question, I wonder how they will answer.

But our grandkids are going to be kind of concerned here.

If it does not, our grandchildren. and their grandchildren will suffer the disgrace of begging for crumbs from the Americans.

They can come from our friends, our family, grandchildren, anyone.

And if we're lucky, we can change the way our great grandchildren will answer Benki's question.

Ah, look at you. There. Won't our grandchildren be delighted when they see how lovely you were?

Koichi got married, our grandchildren were born and now Noriko's getting married

And if we're lucky, we can change the way our great grandchildren will answer Benki's question.

I think most of us are going to glance at it, and our grandchildren are going to begin to live it.

What we do the world right now will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants.

We pay the bill at the end of the month, but the people that are really going to pay the bill are our grandchildren.

And what we can do with our biology is going to shape our future and that of our children and that of their children whether we gain control over aging, whether we learn to protect ourselves from Alzheimer's, and heart disease, and cancer.

Our children will see a bit of that world and our grandchildren will not see the end of it.

What we do with our world right now will propagate down to the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants.

What we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants.

And by tacitly, all of us send our kids, or grandchildren, or nieces, or nephews, to school and tell them to learn, you know,

The world is expecting us to make poverty history, to turn poverty into something our great grandchildren will read about, but not really understand.

Millions of people, every night go to bed without food and millions of people are throwing away their food.

Likewise, if we are stingy today toward the world s poor, we should be lavish toward our descendents.

And by tacitly, all of us send our kids, or grandchildren, or nieces, or nephews, to school and tell them to learn, you know, learn what's in those schools.

What I try to do day after day is to conduct myself in a way that means I can hopefully leave future generations a world less worse than the one we received from our parents ... and needless to say, it is not an easy task these days.

What do we owe to our great great great grandchildren? What actions are we obligated to take now in order to diminish the risks to our descendants and our planet from the increasing likelihood of global warming and climate change?

And what we can do with our biology is going to shape our future and that of our children and that of their children whether we gain control over aging, whether we learn to protect ourselves from Alzheimer's, and heart disease, and cancer.

But we also have to reinvest our capabilities, our funds, our means and our inborn willingness in other words, unprecedented alliances have to be struck for there is no longer time to philosophize about the world we shall bequeath to our great grandchildren.

And while, today, we can practically guarantee that yesterday's packaging is going to be here in 10,000 years, what I want to guarantee is that in 10,000 years, our descendants, our children's children, will be living happily and in harmony with a healthy Earth.

In short, if the world s rich are stingy today toward our much richer descendants, and if we want to leave our environmental mess to them to deal with, we should be lavish toward the world s poor.