Section outline

  • EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

    • We are EXPLORING the problem and the End User
    • We are IDENTIFYING the characteristics of the circular economy
    • We are QUESTIONING the idea of sustainable cities and communities.


    What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

    Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an intergovernmental set of 17 goals with 169 targets covering a broad range of sustainable development issues including ending poverty and hunger, improving health and education, making cities more sustainable, combating climate change, and protecting oceans and forests.

    Half of humanity—3.5 billion people—live in cities today, and this number will continue to grow. Because the future will be urban for a majority of people, the solutions to some of the greatest issues facing humans— poverty, climate change, healthcare, education— must be found in city life. Learn about these connections in this resource and how we can take actions both locally and globally.


    SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

    More than half of the world’s population now live in urban areas. By 2050, that figure will have risen to 6.5 billion people – two-thirds of all humanity. Sustainable development cannot be achieved without significantly transforming the way we build and manage our urban spaces.

    The rapid growth of cities in the developing world, coupled with increasing rural to urban migration, has led to a boom in mega-cities. In 1990, there were ten mega-cities with 10 million inhabitants or more. In 2014, there were 28 mega-cities, home to a total 453 million people.

    Extreme poverty is often concentrated in urban spaces, and national and city governments struggle to accommodate the rising population in these areas. Making cities safe and sustainable means ensuring access to safe and affordable housing, and upgrading slum settlements. It also involves investment in public transport, creating green public spaces, and improving urban planning and management in a way that is both participatory and inclusive.


    7 Facts about Cities:

    • Tokyo is the world’s largest city, with the greater Tokyo area housing about 38 million people
    • By 2030, almost 60 per cent of the world’s population will live in urban areas 
    • 95 per cent of urban expansion in the next decades will take place in developing world 
    • 828 million people live in slums today and the number keeps rising
    • The world’s cities occupy just 3 per cent of the Earth’s land, but account for 60-80 per cent of energy consumption and 75 per cent of carbon emissions
    • In 2017 the cities with the highest Quality of Living were Vienna and Zurich, at the bottom of the list were Dhaka (Bangladesh), Sana (Congo), Bangui (Central African Republic) and Baghdad (Iraq)... Find out Why: Mercer Quality of Living Survey, 2017 https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/2017-quality-of-living-survey.html
    • But the high density of cities can bring efficiency gains and technological innovation while reducing resource and  energy consumption sustainable cities and communities education resource


    Sustainable Development

    What is it?

    ‘Sustainable development’ can be defined as ‘development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’

    The challenge for anyone who wants to live ‘sustainably’ is to define what are our ‘needs’...

    • how do my ‘needs’ today take from future generations?

    • how am I helping future generations to meet their needs?



    Dawn Raid Apology

    Source Analysis 

    This advertisement for the National Party, prepared by the American cartoon firm Hanna-Barbera, was played during the 1975 election campaign. It reflected an increasing hostility to immigrants from the Pacific as unemployment rose in New Zealand following the 1973 oil crisis.

    Task: After watching the video, answer the questions below



    1. This advertisement shows racist stereotypes of Pacific Islanders. What racist stereotypes are evident in this advertisement?
    2. Why do you think the National Party would have released this advertisement? What were they hoping to do? Why do you think they believed this strategy would work? 
    3. What do you think the impact of this advertisement would have been on immigrants from the Pacific at the time? How might they have felt? 


    Task: Watch this video and write a short explanation about how the pen highlighted the racism faced by Pasifika peoples in the 1970s


    RESPONSE


    Black Panthers and Polynesian Panthers 

    On the Slide Presentation is some images of the Black Panthers - a protest group from the United States from the 1960s 

    Task: Find out 5 key facts about the Black Panthers and what they were protesting for


    On the next slide are some images of the Polynesian Panthers




    Task 1: What similarities do you see between the images of the Polynesian Panthers and the Black Panthers?

    Task 2: Why do you think activists wanting to protest the Dawn Raids modeled themselves on the Black Panthers?

    Task 3: Select one of the photographs. What can you see. If you were there, what sounds might you hear? If you were a reporter, whom would you want to interview? What questions might you ask?

    Task 4: Imagine you are a member of the Polynesian Panthers - write a diary entry explaining your motivations for protesting and what change you hope your actions will bring. Make sure you support your ideas with historical evidence.



    Other Apologies….  

    Task 1: What other formal apologies has the New Zealand government/crown made to groups of people and/or for specific events? 

    Task 2: For one of the apologies you have identified above, write a short paragraph explaining what actions the government had taken historically that saw them needing to make a formal apology


    EXTENSION: The Value of an Apology? 

    Read this article:  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/125524870/the-dawn-raids-explained-what-drove-the-government-to-target-pasifika-people

    A Dawn Raids apology is worthless without an overstayer amnesty, says 'Tongan Robin Hood'

    “Fakan’aana’a-ki-Fualu says without an amnesty, the apology will lack "a real meaning ... otherwise Polynesians are still being treated as second-class citizens, just like how we were treated by New Zealand's racist immigration policies of the 1970s”.

    It was culturally unacceptable for an apology not to come accompanied by something. “What is an apology if it comes with nothing at all?”

    Task: Do you agree or disagree with the above statement and the point of view shown in the article? Write a paragraph which evaluates the value of a government apology - do you believe that the apology goes far enough in addressing the treatment that the Pasifika community faced in the 1970s?