Get to know the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs: A global plan for a better world

There are 17 of them, goals decided on by the United Nations, shared with the world in 2015. They are goals for the whole of humanity, to combat and wipe away poverty, hunger, injustice, environmental issues and a host of other concerns in order to bring about a way of life for all that is so much better.

I discovered them as my interest and concern regarding climate change has opened up, and goal # 13 is titled Climate Action. But all of these goals are equally important, one not having more need to be achieved than another. In fact they were designed to work as an integrated unit, one goal connected with and influencing other goals. The UN goal for these SDGs is that “development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.”

It may seem like a daunting task to achieve any of these goals in our world these days, where does one start? But within each goal is are subclasses, targets to shoot for so the work to be done does not seem so overwhelming. And it would be a good thing for more people to know about and read about these important issues to be addressed. Here is a link to the SDG website: https://sdgs.un.org

It seems as though the major events in our current world such as the pandemic, diversity issues, economics and climate change, have taken on a global aspect. It is time for us to think outside of our little boxes of self and immediate community, and realize how very connected we all are in a global sense. It’s time to care about all of humanity and the world around us.