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Video Description

Type: KIHASA Policy Featurette

Topic: Is the Climate Crisis Leading to Intergenerational Inequality?

Guest Speaker: Lim Wan-sub, Research Fellow, Department of Social Security Policy Research, KIHASA

Transcript

Next question: I’d like to know about the inequality created by the climate crisis between the current and future generations.

We can say that there is intergenerational inequality in that future generations are more likely to suffer the consequences of the climate crisis and take on the burden of addressing them than older generations, who are primarily responsible for causing it.

Research shows that greenhouse gas emissions generated by older generations have increased over time. It has also been found that the more recently a person is born, the more intensely and for a longer period they will experience accelerating global warming and the resulting extreme climate events compared to those born earlier.

Clearly, it is unfair that future generations, despite being less responsible for the climate crisis, must face the same disastrous climate conditions as older generations, who bear more responsibility, while also being more likely to experience extreme climate events more frequently throughout their lifetime. This intergenerational inequality calls for concerted efforts from all generations to address and mitigate it.