On 25 September 2015, the seventieth session of the General Assembly in the United Nations approved new Sustainable Development Goals building upon the vision of the original Millennium Development Goals. I argue that this post-2015 agenda still neglects fundamental qualities of cultural sovereignty that are key to maintaining sustainable practices, values and lifestyle habits. No single goal emphasises the need to protect local ecological knowledge, cultural heritage and alternative economic practices - nor their interrelation with biodiversity - as a pathway to sustainability. The factors that threaten sustainable lifestyles remain a conspicuous absence in the goals. The article presents a thought experiment to provoke the addition of the 'inextricable link' of biological, cultural and linguistic diversity to the Sustainable Development Goals: the recognition and affirmation of biocultural heritage.

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目标 18 在哪里？可持续发展目标中对生物文化遗产的需求

2015 年 9 月 25 日，联合国大会第七十届会议在原有千年发展目标愿景的基础上批准了新的可持续发展目标。我认为，这个 2015 年后的议程仍然忽视了文化主权的基本品质，这些品质是维持可持续实践、价值观和生活方式的关键。没有一个单一的目标强调需要保护当地生态知识、文化遗产和替代经济实践——也没有强调它们与生物多样性的相互关系——作为实现可持续性的途径。威胁可持续生活方式的因素在目标中仍然明显缺失。文章提出了一个思想实验，以激发增加生物的“密不可分的联系”，