Cities in the Anthropocene by Ihnji Jon;

Author:Ihnji Jon;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)

‘Sustainable development’ has always been an oxymoron in some sense, but in Cape Town this is especially so given that ‘growth’ is not an objective but rather the reality that the city has to face. To create jobs and be able to provide utility services for those who currently live without them, economic development and growth is an imperative. One key contradiction in pursuing sustainable development in Cape Town is navigating the tension between using resources for growth (for a shorter time frame) and being conscious of resource limits (for a longer time frame). An interviewee, an engineer and former resident of the eastern suburbs, observed:

Environmentalism has always been a privileged, white people thing. I’m not entirely on board with the idea of leaving our aquifer alone for ecological reasons. People live without sanitation, and we need resources, and we know that we have a huge water source underneath us . . . we have to think about environmental needs together with social and economic needs. Yes, climate change is a problem, but people need to survive, and we need to use the resources to live in a decent human condition.

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