01548nas a2200109   4500008004100000245007500041210006900116260001200185520114900197100002301346856006901369       2014                        eng d00aDo people care for a sustainable future? Evidence from happiness data.0 aDo people care for a sustainable future Evidence from happiness   aLeipzig3 aWhile the various streams of environmentalism agree in claiming that the current patterns of economic activity are unsustainable for natural resources, they disagree in answering the following question: who is the responsible? Two different answers have been provided: the people or the socio-economic system. The first answer claims that people are inter-temporally greedy. Unsustainable economic patterns simply reflect the little importance that current generations attribute to the living standard of future generations. According to the second answer instead, people would prefer a more sustainable path of the economy but some failure of the socio-economic system prevent this outcome. We provide a test of the basic hypothesis on which these two views diverge: the degree of people’s concern for the conditions of life of future generations. We derive this information by estimating the relationship between people’s current subjective well-being and their expectations about the living standard of future generations, i.e. a future far enough to concern only future generations. Our findings support the second environmentalist view1 abartolini, stefano  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/3409