The SDGs are are a good example of our inability or unwillingness to deal with consumption, writes the author. Photo: Arthur Kraft/
Consumption, not population, is the elephant in the room of the sustainable development agenda.
罢丑别听聽seems to be experiencing yet another resurgence in discussions on climate change and sustainable development. This is perhaps unsurprising. What is surprising is the extent to which population is presented as a 鈥榝orgotten鈥� or 鈥榯aboo鈥� topic, or as an 鈥榚lephant in the room鈥� (just google population in combination with any of the terms).
Population has always been part of sustainability agendas and still is. As David Johnson from the Margaret Pyke Trust puts it in a聽, 鈥榯he elephant left the room quite some time ago鈥�. Furthermore, I would add, while addressing population growth is obviously important, and while we should continue placing reproductive rights at the core of development efforts, population growth is not our main sustainability challenge.
If we are to make development sustainable, we should rather be dealing with questions of distribution of resources and with the consumption patterns of the rich.
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