Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice

1 Generational justice, sustainability, and ethical values 2 The forgotten children 2.1 Demographic facts 2.2 The forgotten children and the lack of investment 2.3 Parents: competition, compensation, or partnership 2.4 Social inequality and mathematical skills 2.5 Economic deprivation - economic capital 2.6 Social deprivation - social capital 2.7 Cultural deprivation - cultural capital 2.8 From school to youth welfare 2.9 An integrative perspective 3 Germany, nation of education in decline 3.1 Policy or theoretical failure: the problems with compensation theory 3.2 Intergenerational justice and sustainable education 4 Poor children in a rich country 4.1 Material poverty and the economic independence of mothers 4.2 Work, poverty, social exclusion 4.3 Child deprivation 5 Overcoming poverty: dual-income families, inclusion through work, overcoming deprivation 5.1 From universal poverty reduction to tackling specific causes 5.2 Poverty, work, and social exclusion 5.3 Poverty, work, and deprivation 5.4 The triad of poverty reduction as intergenerational justice 6 Healthy life: a country without confidence? 6.1 Healthy life, life expectancy, working life, and life satisfaction 6.2 The black sheep: the coronavirus pandemic, a brief digression on excess mortality and the effects of the pandemic on children 6.3 Healthy living: sustainable lifestyles and reduction of life risks 6.4 Sustainable health policy instead of ageism 7 A peaceful, just, and inclusive society 7.1 Respect at school and in the family: the heterogeneity of pupils 7.2 Respect in school and family: The heterogeneity of families 7.3 Subjective and actual safety 7.4 Family, children, and the state 7.5 Looking together 7.6 Youth welfare and schools: on the way to a village 8 Sustainability, gender equality, and the gender paradox 8.1 Equality of results or equality of opportunity 8.2 Equal opportunities: Privileging the privileged 8.3 Equal opportunities: Homo economicus, preferences, and individuality costs 9 Responsibility postponed: the burden of future generations 9.1 Rational fools in climate policy: Why incentives alone are not enough 9.2 Technology instead of sacrifice: a more realistic model for sustainability 9.3 Climate policy and neocolonialism: Who bears the burden of climate change? 9.4 Climate showdown: technology versus equality 9.5 From a national to a systemic climate policy 10 More appearance than substance? Paradoxical developments in education, poverty, health, security, equality, and climate 10.1 A divided society or intergenerational justice 10.1.1 Academics instead of workers: from the coal and steel industry to the service society 10.1.2 Neoliberal poverty rate, forgotten deprivation, and participation 10.2 Quality of life and security 10.2.1 The years gained: gain or loss? 10.2.2 Security: Lack of commitment in the welfare state 10.3 Equality and structural disadvantage 10.3.1 Three phases, many hurdles: the life course as a barrier to equality 10.3.2 The strong get stronger, the weak fall behind: the equality paradox 10.3.3 The three-part life course: the structural disadvantage of women 10.4 Climate policy and sustainability 10.4.1 From good intentions to good results: generational justice at the heart of honest climate policy 10.4.2 Fluctuating electricity instead of base load: Merkel's headless energy transition 10.4.3 The natural gas trap: the example of Great Britain 10.4.4 Ideology instead of efficiency? The blind spots of the net-zero strategy 10.4.5 For a fair future: invest now - don't wait until the price rises 10.4.6 Alternative climate policy: efficiency, storage, global cooperation 11 Intergenerational justice: ethics of conviction or open society 11.1 The sustainability goal of education 11.2 The sustainability goal of health 11.3 The sustainability goal of combating poverty 11.4 The sustainability goal of security for children and young people 11.5 The sustainability goal of gender equality 11.6 The sustainability goal of climate change: number one? 12 Resources and the production of the book 13 Literature Index