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It is traumatic to accept that instead of being governed by power, economic growth and the bottom line, we must live within the limits of the natural world and replace our growth economy with a steady state economy — a system that permits qualitative development but not overall quantitative growth Just as our society now faces crippling financial debt, humanity will soon face the debt owed to nature.

Politics, philosophy and economics undergird cultural development, and they have taken us from living only in nature to living in an advanced civilization, but they cannot trump biological and physical reality 2. Everyday, as health professionals, in clinics, intensive care units and emergency rooms, we face this reality. The science of medicine is based on it.


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But we seem unable to transfer that reality to our own way of life. Yet, for our descendents to survive with a culture, rather than just as a species scrambling for existence, it requires that we accept this reality and learn to live sustainably. It means a radical new paradigm of living, not just fine-tuning our current way of life.

The first and hardest step is to face reality; to learn, acknowledge and act. This is our most important task. It is by how we raise our children and grandchildren, and how we affect the environment within which they live that much of their future life and health are determined. The children one generation from now will grow up living in a world of constraint and conservation, and may adapt to this constrained world much more easily than the child born today. We have to prepare them for a new life. How do we give our children those perspectives? Because predictions can only be nonspecific, the prescription can only be general.

We need to teach them to live gently on this earth, to value it, to assiduously conserve its resources and take care of it because it is all they have, and it has to last forever. Their world view should promote an ethic of conservation, sustainability, and respect for nature and for their neighbours because support systems will be essential. Travel will probably be less common, so life will be more local.

Our children will need to learn how to get fulfillment in life from their families and community, from work, from education, not only in science and mathematics, but also from art, literature and music, and not so much from computers and consumption. We have to prepare them to face change with the confidence that they can solve the problems of tomorrow, whatever they are, with the methods of tomorrow.

To be an effective model for our children means we must be knowledgeable about the world, not the world of entertainment and excess, but about the environment and how it is changing. We need to learn about things we can do to reduce our impact on the earth and then act on our learning.

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Without education, we lose the drive to change our own lifestyles, to go from consumption to conservation and to teach others. Without education we cannot rebut the denier, convince the skeptic or effectively prompt governments to change. Of course, education is only part of action. The other part is motivation — a much tougher step than education. And what of paediatricians, indeed all doctors. Medicine in may well differ from today, but the basics will not change. The problems and concerns of parents and children will still be there, but the solutions may be different.

We must seriously consider how and what we teach our students and residents because their practice of medicine may be based on simpler technology, fewer drugs and expert clinical skills. The opportunity will remain of ensuring that children recover from their illnesses, and that they will have the best chance to live a full and useful life. The requirement to advocate for the needs of all children will persist. Paediatricians will be doctors, teachers, psychologists, advocates, advisors, mentors and friends; just like always. Predictions often ridicule the predictor, but I am sure that the challenges all the children of the 21st century will face will be greater than those faced by any other generation in the history of humankind.


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