{"id":6498,"date":"2015-11-09T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T07:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6498"},"modified":"2015-11-09T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T07:50:06","slug":"the-swedes-add-an-18th-sdg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/11\/09\/the-swedes-add-an-18th-sdg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swedes add an 18th SDG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if 17 global goals were not enough, along comes an 18th, although it is not from the UN. \u00a0Rather, it's from a Swedish band, <em>The Knife,<\/em>\u00a0which, unsurprisingly, I had not heard of. \u00a0You can listen to\u00a0them <a href=\"http:\/\/theknife.net\/shaking-the-habitual\/\">here<\/a>; ABBA they ain't,\u00a0which will be a relief \/ disappointment according to taste.<\/p>\n<p>The band\u00a0has produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsforaction.org\/articles\/swedish-band-the-knife-nail-central-flaw-of-the-uns-sustainable-development-goals\/\">cartoon<\/a> to promote its\u00a0new goal: <em>Eliminate Extreme Wealth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This will be popular as an idea, although the UN seems\u00a0unlikely to adopt it. \u00a0The cartoon is certainly witty, in that restrained Swedish way,\u00a0and it proposes three main strategies to realise the goal. \u00a0These are education, confiscation, and tree planting: an unlikely, but compelling combination. \u00a0I looked for innovative pedagogies in all this, but what is proposed is relentlessly traditional: the extreme rich, it seems will be sat down and will rote learn the error of their ways. \u00a0I fear it will not be a winning strategy.<\/p>\n<p>I was amused (though you may not) to see that the advert on the official\u00a0video for <a href=\"http:\/\/theknife.net\/shaking-the-habitual\/\"><em>Full of Fire<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0was for the financial services industry and focused on equity release. \u00a0Sub-ironic, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if 17 global goals were not enough, along comes an 18th, although it is not from the UN. \u00a0Rather, it's from a Swedish band, The Knife,\u00a0which, unsurprisingly, I had not heard of. \u00a0You can listen to\u00a0them here; ABBA they...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}