Global Sustainable Development priorities 500 y after Luther: Sola schola et sanitate

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/78176 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/78176 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/78176 archive 353 disk0/00/01/46/74 2017-06-20 07:42:09 2023-08-05 05:01:15 2017-06-20 07:42:09 article show Lutz W. 1124 0000-0001-7975-8145 Global Sustainable Development priorities 500 y after Luther: Sola schola et sanitate pub prog_pop Sustainable Development Goals; reformation; education; health; world population Martin Luther succinctly summarized his theology in sola statements, such as sola scriptura, viewing the Bible (scriptura) as the only valid source of information about God rather than what he viewed as the extraneous, corrupting church doctrine of the time. As a secular side effect of this focus on individual reading skills, the Protestant territories were the first to acquire high literacy rates, which subsequently fostered health, economic growth, and good governance. Here I argue that a similar priority focus on empowerment of all segments of all populations through education and health (sola schola et sanitate) is needed today for sustainable development. According to decades of research, education and health are essential prerequisites for ending poverty and hunger, for improving institutions and participation in society, for voluntary fertility declines and ending world population growth, for changing behavior and adoption of new and clean technologies, and for enhancing adaptive capacity to already unavoidable climate change. This approach avoids paternalistic imposition of development policies by focusing external aid on enabling people to help themselves, their families, and communities. Prioritizing education and health also helps move more industrialized, aging societies from a focus on material consumption to one on quality of life. Sola schola et sanitate suggests that well-being will increasingly be based on health, continued mental stimulation, and consumption of cultural products, rather than fossil fuels and materials. Thus, cognition—or brain power—can be viewed as the zero-emissions energy for sustainable development. 2017-07-03 published National Academy of Sciences 10.1073/pnas.1702609114 190 public Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 27 6904-6913 TRUE 1091-6490 Forecasting Societies Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change (FUTURESOC, FP7 230195) FALSE yes info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/308438/EU//ENHANCE; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/230195/EU/Forecasting Societies Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change/FUTURESOC info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess