The main objective is to eradicate poverty by 2030.

Global hectares

Growth

1.9 Global hectares annually

Overconsumption is the one that puts our planet and society at risk.

1.8 Global hectares annually

Overall happiness and well-being in addition to life expectancy.

The de-development or overconsumption and poverty is the one putting our planet and society at risk. Either we slow down voluntarily or climate change will do it for us.

We should be thinking of ways to get rich countries to "catch-down" to more appropriate levels of development.

The idea of de-development would prove to be a strong rallying cry in the global south base on the recent consumer survey. In that recent consumer survey, 70% of the middle and high income countries believe that overconsumption is putting the planet and the society at risk. A similar majority also believe we should strive to buy and own less and doing so would not compromise our happiness. 

The society’s manifestation to overproduce and overconsume is the differences in qualifications and demands of each state about meeting the needs/wants of the population. 

Yes, because if growth and consumption will not be regulated, these two can cause over consumption of our natural resources, and which would result to unsustainable society and catastrophes like climate change, scarcity and shortage.

How we contribute to the growth of our economy and how we measure our level of living has shaped our understanding of growth. We are all awestruck by the fact that science has enabled advancements.

We will be able to better our lives while reducing consumption by being able to assess our requirements and not spending so much on our wants, and by identifying needs that would last a long time in our hands; purchasing high-quality products would also be beneficial when reducing consumption.

The de-development framework is about purposely stopping growth for the sake of improving the state of living of developing countries. On the other hand, traditional ways of development keep the idea of growth without actually having solutions to the problems regarding poverty and lack of resources to consume in other countries

Poor countries find it difficult to keep up with the rich countries so Instead of the poor countries to catch up with the fully developed ones. We should think of ways for the rich countries to catch down with the poor countries to make more appropriate levels of development. We should look at societies where people live long and happy lives at relatively low levels of income and consumption.

De-development, de-growth, and zero growth seemingly unacceptable because it only means to stop overconsumption and start limiting the use of resources in nature and water to avoid scarcity of resources in our planet. This kind of framework requires a high level of development and continuous high level of progress which is the opposite of the terms "de-development", and "de-growth" since there terms refer to catching down with the development of rich countries instead of the poor countries to catch up with the rich ones.

Catch up

Yes, De-development is applicable and observed during this global pandemic, as an example high income countries (Developed Countries) lend money or investments to low income countries (Developing/ Under Developed Countries) experiencing financial difficulties during this global pandemic as these countries urgently need support from the international community.

Development and Innovation benefited Global Pandemic interms of eradicating the COVID- 19 diseases specifically by helping many countries to have international collaboration with its scientist to develop vaccines that are made fully accesible to everyone.