{"id":520,"date":"2015-09-16T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africavenir.com\/the-problem-with-saving-the-world\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:16:19","slug":"the-problem-with-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africavenir.org\/en\/the-problem-with-saving-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article written by Jason Hickel published on 8th August 2015 evaluating that &quot;the UN&#8217;s new Sustainable Development Goals aim to save the world without transforming it.nRight now global production and consumption levels are overshooting our planet\u2019s capacity by about 50 percent each year. This is a monumental crisis, and one that proceeds from the deep logic of capitalism. Yet the SDGs\u2019 proposed solution to this problem is superficial: reduce food waste, make resource use more efficient, and \u201cencourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices.\u201d These proposals explicitly avoid the obvious solution \u2014 namely, reduced consumption by the world\u2019s wealthy \u2014 and steer clear of actually regulating corporate extraction.&quot;nFind the whole article published on jacobinmag.org <link https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2015\/08\/global-poverty-climate-change-sdgs\/ - external-link-new-window \"\u00d6ffnet externen Link in neuem Fenster\">here<\/link>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article written by Jason Hickel published on 8th August 2015 evaluating that &quot;the UN&#8217;s new Sustainable Development Goals aim to save the world without transforming it.nRight now global production and consumption levels are overshooting our planet\u2019s capacity by about 50 percent each year. 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