1. What is the main objective of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations?

The Sustainable Development Goals, or more simply called “SDG’s”, are focused on eradicating
poverty, or at least this is how they are presented

The Sustainable Development Goals, or more simply called “SDG’s”, is focused on growth as a
means of eradicating poverty.

2. What is the standard unit that measures resouce use and waste?

The standard unit of measurement for resource use and waste is the global hectares.

3. What is the standard response to eradicating poverty?

In an orthodoxical perspective, to eradicate poverty, poor countries just need development.

However, in the de-developing view, people must seek a life that is sustainable. This implies that
rich countries should lessen their consumption.

4. What is the threshold of the earth for adequately sustaining life?

The consumption of only 1.9 hectares per person is considered to be the threshold of ecological
sustainability. This means that in order to keep on living in a world that would continually suffice
our needs, every person must consume only 1.9 hectares.

5. According to the majority of the people in the middle-income and high-income countries, what
puts the planet and society at risk?

Middle to high-income countries believes that overconsumption is the thing that puts our planet
and society at risk. They also believe that one should buy and own less. And that doing so would
not and/or should not compromise our happines.

6. How many hectares should each of us consume annually based on the resources available in the
planet?

At the current state of Earth, only 1.8 global hectares can be provided for consumption for each
person every year.

7. What are two factos of the quality of life given in the article?

The two factors given by the article as factors of quality of life is happiness and life expectancy.

8. What crisis in the planet would force us to slow down if we do not do so voluntarily?

According to the article, the crisis that would force development to slow down, or even cease, is
global warming. Global warming that is, ironically, an effect of development itself.

9. According to Hickel, what must be done instead of urging poor countries to “catch up” with rich
ones?

Instead of the poor countries developing and rising up to the levels of rich countries, the rich
countries should catch down. This does not mean, however, that rich countries should de-
 develop, but for them to lessen their consumptions and develop a way of living that demands
less, a lot less than they do today.

10. How would the different areas of the world react to the idea of “de-development”?

The term de-development is truly off-putting, it gives off a negative connotation to the real
concept of Hickel’s idea. This being said, one who has no idea of what de-development really
means, would see the idea as an attack to their economy, which then leads to them opposing it.