We have a vision of what we want the world to resemble as articulated in the Global Goals. The SDGs draw their strength from our imaginations and the prospect of creating the future we want. We actualise this by articulating goals, targets, and indicators. These efforts become gratifying through the link in our imaginations to the existence we intend to forecast. We aim to make the imaginary into reality.
The Global Goals are the moral compass of the entire UN body of 192 member states, representing the totality of the planet’s human population, which reached such an agreement. The best explanation for why all countries agreed on Agenda 2030 and the Paris Agreement is a profound, universal sense of where we want to go.
You have the tools before you to measure your progress toward the Goals in your own life, all that’s left is your opportunity to act. With less than eight years remaining to 2030, it’s now time to prioritise our lives to actualise the Goals. Let’s leave something worthwhile for life now in its infancy and for all life yet to come.
The best we can hope for within our conscience is once we reach 2030, whatever the global outcome, we know we can look ourselves in the mirror and admit to ourselves we did our best as one person among 8.5 billion other human souls.