One of the worst outcomes of not acting in the best interests of the seventh generation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_generation_sustainability

Seven generation sustainability is an ecological concept that urges the current generation of humans to live sustainably and work for the benefit of the seventh generation into the future.[1] It originated with the Iroquois - Great Law of the Iroquois - which holds appropriate to think seven generations ahead (a couple hundred years into the future) and decide whether the decisions they make today would benefit their children seven generations into the future.

"In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine." This is an often repeated saying, and most who use it claim that it comes from “The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law.”

In fact, the original language is as follows: In all of your deliberations in the Confederate Council, in your efforts at law making, in all your official acts, self interest shall be cast into oblivion. Cast not over your shoulder behind you the warnings of the nephews and nieces should they chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law which is just and right. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground – the unborn of the future Nation.

Clinamen: truly the wisdom of the elders, we need it now more than ever.

The royal family and the French are heavily invested in uranium and nuclear power. They will go full speed ahead with complete annihalation if they aren't stopped.

sheila,
Yes, we need the wisdom of elders now more than ever, however, this culture we live in, what wisdom is left or can exist in any important degree?
We have separation of generations, much due to social engineering.
We have enclaves of older ones, perhaps now can see their grandchildren are up against it, very few jobs, economic debt and chaos.
The scene appears to be out of the hands of the people or what is in the best interest for humanity or all living things.
Congress does not intervene with the companies whose policies are injurious to life and leading to destroying our planet.

Mario Savio quote:
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."