Ancestors (Jonas Salk)

"Are we being good ancestors?" - Jonas Salk

What does it mean to be a good ancestor? How should you live now to be good for future generations?

I think being a good ancestor means creating a safe, intact, healthy nice (literally, looks wise) natural habitat. Not only for our children and grandchildren… but also the different species of animals.

To be a good ancestor there are many things that you can do and several things we have to focus on. This also depends on the vision each individual has. In the end this is what it comes down to. How can we be good ancestors if we, the human species, don't have a common agreement on what we want our future to be like?

However some things I can think of are...

1) Environment: We should definitely protect our environment as of right now, because, to be good ancestors you should firstly make sure that there even is a possibility for a future generation. Right now, we are doing exactly the opposite, we are destroying our surroundings. How are we supposed to live in the future when all the trees have been cut down, all the water is polluted and useless to us? We have to take care of our environment also to avoid extinction and therefore disruptions in the life cycle. Imagine wanting to tell your children about sharks…or let's say a time where you went diving. You start to say a name of a fish "tun-" but you have to stop yourself because they don't know what they are. They are gone, for good, they won't be back ever. Or imagine you try to tell them of a vacation in a certain season but they can't relate because they just don't know what seasons are. All this due to climate change, is it really worth it? 

2) Community: We have to start accepting that people have different opinions and learn how to deal with them in a proper way. Try to understand each other and try to work together to come up with conclusions/compromises everyone can be happy with. This way we can learn to communicate in a proper way and 

...There are so many aspects that you could focus on that contribute to a better future, so we can be better ancestors. Equality, education, culture, social and many many more.


However there are also things people have done in the past that make it very difficult to change. So, some of our past mistakes are being carried through to the future. Things our generation didn't even start but are now responsible for.

Even so, there are many things you can do to be a good ancestor, but the main key is to know that whatever you do has a consequence. If you're willing to take that risk, be ready to clean up your own mess, don't leave it to pile up for the people to come.