{"id":12368,"date":"2015-09-17T06:45:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2015-09-17T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:45:17","slug":"securing-a-sustainable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12368","title":{"rendered":"Securing a Sustainable Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Securing a Sustainable Future<\/a><\/h3>\n

When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cAll that is solid melts into air,\u201d they intended it as a metaphor for the disruptive transformations that the Industrial Revolution implied for established social norms. Today, their words can be taken literally: Carbon-dioxide emissions and other industrial pollutants released into the atmosphere are changing the planet \u2013 with huge implications for the environment, health, population movements, and social justice. The world is at a crossroads, and much of the progress we have made in these areas could vanish into thin air.<\/p>\n

In 2007, Nelson Mandela founded The Elders to address just such risks, mandating this independent group of former leaders to \u201cspeak truth unto power.\u201d That is what we will do at the launch of the new\u00a0Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>\u00a0at the United Nations General Assembly later this month.<\/p>\n

The SDGs will succeed the\u00a0Millennium Development Goals<\/a>, which guided international development efforts from 2000-2015. The MDGs helped millions of people escape illiteracy, disease, and hunger, and placed development at the heart of the global political agenda. However, their overall impact was often inadequate, particularly in fragile, conflict-ridden states \u2013 and they failed to include sustainability in their targets.<\/p>\n

The SDGs represent a quantum leap forward, because they recognize the vital links among challenges \u2013 including poverty in all its forms, gender inequality, climate change, and poor governance \u2013 that must be addressed in tandem. Seventeen separate goals may seem unwieldy, but their cumulative effect should mean that no topic or constituency falls through the cracks. Sustainability is finally being integrated into global development, in line with what campaigners have been demanding for decades.<\/p>\n


\nRead more at https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/the-elders-climate-change-development-goals-by-gro-harlem-brundtland-and-graca-machel-2015-09#BclpXhWB8kPKcmlP.99<\/span><\/p>\n

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Securing a Sustainable Future When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels\u00a0wrote\u00a0that \u201cAll that is solid melts into air,\u201d they intended it as a metaphor for the disruptive transformations that the Industrial Revolution implied for established social norms. Today, their words can be taken literally: Carbon-dioxide emissions and other industrial pollutants released into the atmosphere are changing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[1643,9111,734,769,9112,822,826],"class_list":["post-12368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-global-development","tag-millennium-development-goals","tag-social-justice","tag-sustainability","tag-the-elders","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12369,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}