A worthy listen, Professor Jeffrey Sachs Interview. The viral title does not accurately describe the discussion, which instead explains how “Sustainable development is the solution for our future”. “A Hot War Between The Two Largest Nuclear Powers”.
Summary points include:
Sustainable development is a problem solving field. Sachs explores how the idea of “Sustainable Development” will be the change factor to drive our present opportunities to realize a good world.
What are the primary issues:
- Persisting poverty. We will end poverty.
- Environmental and biodiversity failure. We can have economic well-being and environmental sustainability.
- War. War is not inevitable and it’s unthinkable.
We need to change:
- We should understand our stone-age emotions and control the worst of them
- Reform our medieval institutions
- Harness our technologies for the human good, not for military purposes
What is Sustainable development? It is a set of goals with globally agreed objectives.
- We can think about the SDGs 17 globally agreed goals, the Paris agreement, the recent Kunming biodiversity framework
- It is a field of study, a systems approach, but a system of systems. earth, World engineered systems, political and economics systems, social, psychological, ethical, cultural, systems.
- The SDG goals and disciplines is the new way of governance. Theory and practice. Practice is essential as we are time limited. The time is now.
The goals are not being met. Not even close.
What is the plan? the global plan? What is the solution?
- Governance is the biggest issue. It is in disrepair.
- Governments need goals and clear instruments to complete these goals.
- Governments need to work together.
- We need cooperation between regions.
- We need to interactively find solutions together.
It cannot be achieved alone.
Source: Jeffrey Sachs YouTube
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