Guest blog:A Broader Spotlight on the SDGs
By Jessie Henshaw* I’ve been observing the SDGs as a natural systems scientist since 2013 when I saw with some surprise that the one topic both Country delegates and Civil Society groups could agree on was the wording of the ideals for global development. Even when the Co-Chairs, Ambassadors Korosi, and Kamu, began persistently asking for the discussion to turn to means and methods it never did. Ideals are wonderful, but the SDGs are responding to a still growing global disruption of human and natural cultures, a problem not studied or discussed. I find somewhat the same problem with this year’s otherwise wonderful “ Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018” (see www.2030spotlight.org ). Its critiques seem excellent and hard not to agree with, but also seemed to assume ideal purposes lead to ideal results, as the drafting of the SDG’s did. The real problem is that the growing harm to human cultures and nature caused by acceleratin...