End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. In just 17 steps. Over the course of 15 years.
There's no time like today to 'unlearn' learned helplessness. To awaken from mind-numbing and paralyzing negative news: Unprecedented Arctic temperatures plummeting to a melting point. The earth losing 1/2 of arable land over the last forty years. 218 million people affected by disasters. President-elect Trump. The potential collapse of the Paris Agreement. Aleppo.
Better to find power in numbers, to look instead for powerful -- though at times seemingly minuscule -- advances in addressing social and environmental justice, climate change and sustainable clean energy, global health and income inequality.
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is seventeen "Global Goals,” which are also referred to as the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There are 169 targets identified within the framework of this ambitious agenda.
To look at the world through the lens of the Global Goals is a revelatory, heart warming , and hopeful experience.
Here are 17 victorious examples of accomplishments which champion the resilience and strength which is possible when we aim high.
Happy New Year.