The Academy for Future Science supports sustainable development initiatives, particularly affordable, clean energy, and quality education. Through our work as social scientists in Africa and South America, we have found that grass-roots alliances and cooperation are...
The SDGs reveal a UN alarmingly out of touch with humanity’s rush toward ever greater inequality, exclusion, environmental destruction, and ultimate self-extinction. They suggest we are making progress when we are falling behind and call for greater effort with no...
I respectfully propose that the SDGs are based upon a worldview built on outdated assumptions. While undeniably important and well-intentioned, they will not be attainable until the people implementing them have risen to a higher state of consciousness. The current...
The UN Sustainable Development Goals offer humanity a blueprint framework for cooperation on behalf of the common good. History was made in 1945 as the UN was founded and we made a subtle shift regarding our desire for global peace, from ‘peace through force’ to...
The SDGs have contributed to a unified understanding of many of the acute challenges we face, while also inspiring global solutions-oriented inquiry and action. In the context of our accelerating global crises, and with our rapidly growing knowledge and wisdom base,...
What’s really happening? Pandemic —> Recession/Depression —> Psycho-Cultural Shocks —> Myriad Cascades Contexts: An existential ecological crisis, amidst a crisis of sensemaking and meaning, on an overpopulated planet. Hypercomplex interconnections among all global...
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