The idea is highly controversial, but at least one psychiatrist is convinced that we are, whether we know it or not.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/are-we-feeling-collective-grief-over-climate-change/

“The fingerprints of humans are all over the frequency and intensity of climate disasters . . . What will happen when future generations look back and know that we could have taken action—that we knew—and we didn’t?”

Dr. Van Susteren can’t shake off a sense of shame when she speaks about how future generations will feel:

“That we abandoned them willfully, negligently, intentionally, and out of dereliction of duty.”