An assessment of the poverty, the crisis of the capitalism and the impacts Climate Change

Development and harmony with mother earth

René Orellana Halkyer

14/08/2014

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One issue that occupies much of the international debate regarding the Post 2015 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the future of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the evaluation of its scope and compliance.

The MDGs are linked to problems that require immediate attention and which are symptoms of deeper causes related to the structure of the economy and society not only at the countries level but at the global one. The conditions of poverty and hunger, as well as the gradual deterioration of ecosystems and the planet, are undoubtedly causes but also effects of a certain configuration of the global economy and its models of development. An economic and social order based on private accumulation, economic growth, consumerism, pollutant production patterns, the concentration of wealth in few hands, in the assumption that nature as a thing or as capital/stock provider of services and not as subject of rights, has helped to trigger cycles of impoverishment and hunger and increasing predation path ending with the foundation and sustenance of life.

In order to have picture of the global crisis, at least a partial, let's start with an assessment of the Millennium Development Goals (focusing primarily on issues of poverty and hunger) which will provide us the social faces of the crisis, and then let´s continue with a reading of the images of the world, the South and the North, both in interaction , so that we can actually identify what are the new responsibilities of the so-called developed countries and developing countries , including of course the emerging countries.

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This article is a summary of the book written by the same author, entitled "Development with Poverty or the Poverty of Development". Translation: the author. See spanish versión: http://www.ucordillera.edu.bo/index.php/2013-05-14- 22-20-09/medios-ambiente-y-cambio-climatico/finish/15-medio-ambiente-y-cambio-climatico/52-desarrollo-conpobreza- o-la-pobreza-del-desarrollo/0

- René Orellana Halkyer is Sociologist, Ph.D. by the University of Amsterdam, Professor and Coordinator of Environment, Water and Climate Change of the University of la Cordillera. He was Viceminister of Basic Services and Minister of Environment and Water of Bolivia, Head of Delegation of Bolivia in the Conference of Sustainable Development Rio + 20 and in the 17th, 18th and 19th COPs of UNFCCC, Chair of G77+China on behalf of Bolivia in the context of UNFCCC in 2014, member of the Open Working Group of the UN for the elaboration of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG ), Ambassador Add Honorem on issues of Environment and Development to the UN.

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