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Borrowing from the Future: A Faith-based Approach to Intergenerational Equity

Borrowing from the Future: A Faith-based Approach to Intergenerational Equity

by Ann Morisy (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

This is a faith-based exploration of how can we adapt our lifestyles and redirect resources to take account of the challenges that result from increasing longevity. This is a new but pressing issue. The pukka term is 'intergenerational equity' and gerontologists and policy makers have seen it coming for some time. The recession has added to the intensity of the issue, as those in the later stage of life are less likely to be hard hit by changes in relation to pension provision, unemployment and the steep challenge of getting a foot on the property ladder. Societies throughout history have been used to investing in their children, today the worry is the ever rising cost of eldercare. There are profound, but unacknowledged repercussions of the age profile in post-industrial nations that call for re-inventing our life styles and the assumed pursuit of wealth...to the bitter end.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Continuum
Published: 13 May 2011
ISBN 10: 1441125361
ISBN 13: 9781441125361

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In this importantbook, Ann Morisy opens up 'today' to the judgment of the future. She does notshrink from the likely consequences of what she describes as our 'dastardly'self-love, but she rejects any hopeless passivity. The challenge is whether thebeneficiaries of today can be transformed into a turnaround generation, securing and enhancing our human future.--The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres, Bishop of London
In this important book, Ann Morisy opens up 'today' to the judgment of the future. She does not shrink from the likely consequences of what she describes as our 'dastardly' self-love, but she rejects any hopeless passivity. The challenge is whether the beneficiaries of today can be transformed into a turnaround generation, securing and enhancing our human future.--The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres, Bishop of London
A book that will challenge Christians and non-Christians alike on one of modern Britain's biggest injustices: one generation paying for the exceptional good luck of another.--Sanford Lakoff
... a thoroughly engaging, even riveting, read... This is an important and invigorating book.--Sanford Lakoff
Author Bio
Ann Morisy is a community theologian and the author of the best-selling books Beyond the Good Samaritan and Journeying Out as well as Bothered and Bewildered (published June 2009). She lectures widely and leads workshops, both in the UK and abroad. She writes about issues in a way that people 'find hard to put down', and in a manner that enables them to incorporate the ideas into their practice. Her credentials for writing this book are as follows: 'I've been an objective student of ageing for 25 years, I am now more directly involved in the issue. I am part of the post-war baby boom, which Harold Macmillan suggested 'had never had it so good'; For this and other reasons I am well positioned to say things that might not be possible for those rooted in more conventional familial arrangements.'