See here:
https://www.thestar.com/news/c...ine-it-gives-us.html
There’s a girl sitting in a Grade 5 class today.
By the time she graduates from high school, in just seven years, the decisions the world makes around carbon emissions will determine the environment she grows up in.
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Hi, Andrew—Like you, I think a revision is needed. I like your idea of using the future perfect (“will have determined”). However, I think a second edit is needed; I’d change “grows up in” to “has grown up in”:
“By the time she graduates from high school, in just seven years, the decisions the world makes (now) around carbon emissions will have determined the environment she has grown up in.”
We could imagine her future self looking back and saying, “Wow, the decisions the world MADE when I WAS in the fifth grade HAVE DETERMINED the world I HAVE GROWN UP in.”
But I think that you misunderstood the indeed meaning, which is that she'll live her entire life (from that point forward) in an environment that our decisions have determined.
Hi, Andrew,
I agree with David. One thing is to live in an environment (according to your paraphrase), and quite another is to grow up in an environment—the latter verb, which is the one used in the original text, entails an evolution from childhood to adulthood. A 5th grader would be around 10, and will finish high school at around 18. By the time the girl turns 18, the decisions made during this period will have determined the conditions of the world in which she has grown up.
