SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
Begin your journey by exploring this page . The buttons below take you to resources that relate to SDG 12 . Student participant's work can also be found here (or will, work in progress). The materials here are only the beginning of your journey, explore them and then follow your focus of interest.
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production:
Go to the UN page on SDG 12 by clicking on the button. Read the information it contains.
Ask yourselves some key questions like the ones below and then go to Flipgrid and record your responses. Your teacher has the Flipgrid code.
Welcome to Flipgrid! Tap the green plus below to open the Flipgrid Camera. Then, record a short video and...
Introduce yourself briefly. Say your name, age, nationality.
Identify why you selected this SDG.
Explain the goal and what it is about
Why is it important to reach a situation of zero hunger in the world? You must highlight why the problem is relevant and requires intervention. You can present figures to support your view.
Is the goal relevant in your country? You can present figures
What should be done in your country to satisfy this goal?
How can you act to help make it achievable?
What are the facilitators and inhibitors of eradicating hunger in the world?
Student Participant Responses to SDG 12
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By Celina Forss (Finland)() Write the World
Black Friday is that one special Friday every year when everything is on sale. It all started in the United states about 60 years ago, and has now spread to be a worldwide event. The quote "shop till' you drop" describes black Friday very well. People go crazy. It's not even unusual to camp outside the shopping malls, just to get to be the first ones there when the stores open. Do objects really matter that much to people? Or is it just the hype and opportunity that makes us want to stand in a queue for two hours straight?
This enormous production of things all around the world, isn't sustainable. We need to make a change. Instead of buying cheap stuff on sale, we need to start investing in more long-lasting products. The amount of trash we produce every year is insane. An average person throws away about two kilograms of trash EVERY DAY, which means 730 kilograms a year, and this is only one person.
One of many problems are the sales. They create a dread, also called the "fear of missing out". The cheap prices compel people to buy all kinds of unnecessary stuff. It's an old market trick; first to show the higher price and then put it on sale. This makes people think they saved a lot of money while they at the same time feel like they did a clever move.
Over-consumption doesn't only concern things like clothes, papers, toys and etc. It also involves the food-industry and raw-materials. For an example energy and oil are raw-materials. We consume a lot of meat, egg and milk every day. The huge request after animal products have lead to mass production. To run this mass production we need all kinds of raw-materials. We need machines, oil, energy and so on. Despite all the work of producing food, we still throw away 1.3 billion tonnes of food each year. This affects our planet in a lot of ways.
Our Ecological Footprint, the natural resources we use, is too big today. We use more ecological resources than nature can provide us. with over-fishing, over-harvesting forests and emitting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We are sabotaging our planet step by step.
To escape in solitude and try to forget the problems we stand within, is not going to help solving them. Earth is our home, a planet like no other. A planet with oxygen and life, contrary to the Moon. Think about the choices you make, every day.