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Podcast: UN Sustainable Development Goals, Episode 1, Poverty

The United Nations has made 17 goals for sustainable development. These goals aim to safeguard life on Earth and improve the world we live in. In this episode Tula Marie Åstrand and Max Resar talk about poverty.
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What do we mean by sustainable development?

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to fulfill their needs.

Put simply it means that those of us who live now should live our lives and produce goods in a way that does not use up or destroy the earth's resources.

Episode 1: Poverty

The first of UN's sustainable development goals is to end all forms of poverty, everywhere.

Illustration: Hands in different colours reach towards the title: 'Sustainable Development Goals.'

The United Nations has made 17 goals for sustainable development. These goals aim to safeguard life on Earth and improve the world we live in. In this episode Tula Marie Åstrand and Max Resar talk abo...

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Comprehension tasks. Episode 1.

  1. What did Max learn about poverty when visiting the Dharavi district in Mumbai, India?

  2. Why were many of the houses in Dharavi damaged?

  3. Max mentions the Antilia building, which is the residence of billionaire Mukesh Ambani and his family. In what way did the location of the Antilia building strike Max as significant?

  4. What was Tula's experience of poverty in Sri Lanka?

  5. What is poverty tourism?

  6. What is the difference between relative poverty and absolute poverty?

  7. Do you agree with Tula and Max's view of poverty in Norway?


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Last revised date 01/31/2022

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