Seventh Generation

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Seventh Generation is a precept of the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy), which requires that chiefs consider the impact of their decisions on the seventh generation.

This has found its way into economics: Green economists advise measuring impacts of Public bads back to the present from the seventh generation.

Seventh generation standard

The notion of a seventh generation standard argues that the effect of any decision today should be judged by its effect in six generations. These measures are often associated in the United States with the proposed Seventh Generation Amendment proposal to the U.S. Constitution, and in Canada with the Canada Well-Being Measurement Act co-authored by Mike Nickerson of the Green Party of Ontario and Joe Jordan, a Liberal Party of Canada member of Parliament. This strategy would be very difficult to implement as predicting the future is never easy. ("Quality of Life" http://www.did-you-mean.com/Quality_of_life.html)

Other uses

• Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, Inc. - see http://www.7genfund.org/
• Company: Seventh Generation, Inc.
• role-playing game: Werewolf: The Apocalypse