ABSTRACT
The SDGs represent the best example of global cooperation and agreement. They are ambitious and an important start for putting humanity on a different direction. However, we can do better. We can create ideas and sets of goals that enhance the relationship between humans and the biosphere and live within ecological limits. Ecological economics does that by prioritizing well-being, limiting wealth, and many other examples expanded on. This final chapter expands on the biggest hurdles in our way including (a) wealth accumulation; (b) GDP as a measure for well-being; (c) growing monopolies of multinational corporations; (d) insidious advertising and data mining behaviours of companies; and (e) the precarious nature of the financial system. Until there is an international agreement that we will no longer tolerate these problems and that instead we will prioritize human–natural relationship, well-being, and life, then no agreement matters. Overall, in order to take on these problems, we need to create and support resilient localized neotechnic livelihoods through Ecological Livelihood Goals.
