Netzwerk Afrika Deutschland (NAD) – www.netzwerkafrika.de Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns If all countries in the world would adopt the lifestyle and the consumption patterns of the western world, an ecological disaster would be...
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Netzwerk Afrika Deutschland (NAD) – www.netzwerkafrika.de Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns If all countries in the world would adopt the lifestyle and the consumption patterns of the western world, an ecological disaster would be inevitable. Already now we use more resources than our planet can renew. “Overshoot day” the date of the year when we have used what we are entitled to, fell 2015 on the 13th of August. For the rest of the year we lived off the substance at the expense of the future generations. “Green technology” alone will not solve this problem. To survive in the long run we have to change radically our wasteful ways of producing and consuming what we need for life and develop sustainable consumption and production methods. This can only succeed if we live out of a spirituality of simplicity and frugality to which Pope Francis invites us in his encyclical ‘Laudato Si´. What do the SDG call for? Developing countries have still to assure the basic needs
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