Citations:generational amnesia

English citations of generational amnesia

• 2021, Richard Fisher, Generational amnesia: The memory loss that harms the planet, BBC News (25 June 2021);

  However, that's not the only kind of forgetfulness that happens as the generations pass. There's another type that is less obvious, called "generational amnesia", which has profound effects on the way that we see the world. And unfortunately, all of us come to suffer from it no matter how young or old we are.

Every generation is handed a world that has been shaped by their predecessors – and then seemingly forgets that fact.

• 2011 February 25, Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 165:

  ... generational amnesia (Kahn 1999, 2002; Kahn, Severson, and Ruckert 2009). I think environmental generational amnesia is an enormous problem that exists worldwide. I will say more about the problem shortly. But I recognize that the […]

• 2015 June 29, Susan Clayton, Gene Myers, Conservation Psychology: Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 253:

  ... generational amnesia.” For instance, he found that children from Houston understood the concept of water pollution, but didn't feel that their local waterway was polluted (which it certainly was). Complete data to demonstrate […]

• 2023 September 19, Eviane Leidig, The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

  ... generational amnesia . The term generational amnesia is often used in discussions concerning climate change ; it refers to the idea that " knowledge extinction occurs because younger generations are not aware of past biological […]