Humanity faces the challenge of how to achieve a high quality of life
for over 7 billion people without destabilizing critical planetary
processes. Using indicators designed to measure a ‘safe and just’
development space, we quantify the resource use associated with meeting
basic human needs, and compare this to downscaled planetary boundaries
for over 150 nations. We find that no country meets basic needs for its
citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use. Physical needs
such as nutrition, sanitation, access to electricity and the elimination
of extreme poverty could likely be met for all people without
transgressing planetary boundaries. However, the universal achievement
of more qualitative goals (for example, high life satisfaction) would
require a level of resource use that is 2–6 times the sustainable level,
based on current relationships. Strategies to improve physical and
social provisioning systems, with a focus on sufficiency and equity,
have the potential to move nations towards sustainability, but the
challenge remains substantial.
https://www.academia.edu/36372988/A_Good_Life_For_All_Within_Planetary_Boundaries
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