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• Criti- cism of internal inconsistencies include that SDG 1 accounts for poverty only monetarily, not in terms of human needs, and without facilitating the redistribu- tion of wealth, suggesting that it therefore cannot meet its goal of poverty reduc- tion
• long-term economic growth is at odds with ecological sus- tainability
• The need for remaining within a safe operating space for humanity also encompasses the need for trans- forming work, creating new forms of work, and terminating work, since the work process is the mediating link between society and the environmen
• “[T]he strong sustainability criteria (...) is derived from the recognition that natural resources are essential inputs in economic production, consumption or welfare that cannot be substituted for by physical or human capital(...) it is understood that some environmental components are unique and that some environmental processes may be irreversib...
• The research fields of degrowth and sustainable work are based on the paradigm of strong sustainability that views the economy as a sub-system of society, in itself a sub-system of the environment

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