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Tag: Sustainable Development Goals

  • Building a Planet of Peace Is the Only Realistic Thing to Do

    Beatriz González (Colombia), Señor presidente, qué honor estar con usted en este momento histórico (‘Mr President, What an Honour to Be with You in This Historic Moment’), 1987. There are times in life when you want to set aside complexity and return to the essence of things. Last week, I was on a boat in […]

  • Net Zero, the Digital Panopticon and the Future of Food

    The food transition, the energy transition, net-zero ideology, programmable central bank digital currencies, the censorship of free speech and clampdowns on protest. What’s it all about? To understand these processes, we need to first locate what is essentially a social and economic reset within the context of a collapsing financial system. Writer Ted Reece notes […]

  • Global Warming Did The Unthinkable

    Jungfraujoch’s foreboding temperatures this September at the top of the world in Switzerland at 2.25 miles altitude alarmed glaciologists. If anybody has lingering doubts about global warming’s strength of power to directly impact Earth’s ecosystems, think again. Antarctica, at the bottom of the world, experienced record high temperatures during its winter, as record high temperatures […]

  • Beneath the Polycrisis Is the Singular Dilemma of Humanity Called Capitalism

    Beneath the Polycrisis Is the Singular Dilemma of Humanity Called Capitalism

    Tsherin Sherpa (Nepal), Lost Spirits, 2014. Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger. In 1993, the philosophers Edgar Morin and Anne-Brigitte Kern used the term ‘polycrisis’ […]

  • The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty

    The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty

    The Akosombo Dam in the Volta River, inaugurated in 1965 during Kwame Nkrumah’s presidency. In June, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the 193 member states towards attaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ‘From 2015 to 2019’, the network wrote, ‘the world […]

  • The Rice Bowl of the Chinese People Is Held Firmly in Their Hands

    The Rice Bowl of the Chinese People Is Held Firmly in Their Hands

    Fan Wennan (China), 中国 2098: 太阳照常升起 (‘China 2098: The Sun Rises Just the Same’), 2019–2022. At the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), member states decided to replace the Millennium Development Goals (established in 2000) with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The first SDG was to ‘end poverty in […]

  • China’s BRI: Toward a Hybrid International Order with Socialist Characteristics?

    This year marks the 10th anniversary of President Xi Jinping’s launch of China’s flagship, One Belt One Road (OBOR), later referred to as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Echoing the historic Silk Road, the ancient trade network of Eurasia that connected the East and West, BRI is the most ambitious and expensive infrastructure plan […]

  • You Strike the Women, You Strike the Rock, You Will Be Crushed

    Arnold Böcklin (Switzerland), Isle of the Dead, 1880. What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in the United States falls victim to the inversion of the yield curve (i.e., when short-term bond interest rates become higher than long-term rates), the Earth nearly stops spinning. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank […]

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