\"Our message is that building a fairer world and protecting our planet starts with daily actions that can transform our common future, and this exhibition inspires viewers to question and be engaged.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In an email to everyone who was at the December St George's House event on the Goals, Mark wrote:<\/p>\n
\"The launch of WHOLE EARTH? by UNESCO was not so much a celebration as a warning about the extraordinary challenge we face.\u00a0 You\u2019ll notice a question mark in the title. Will we - can we - be brave and bold enough to meet the sustainable development goals signed up to by 193 governments? Are we evolved enough to take an extraordinary step toward a world where human systems and natural systems are aligned to create a whole earth \u2013 whole in the senses both of unified and healed.<\/p>\n
Will governments and their voters really take this opportunity to transform society and underpin security for ourselves and future generations? Or will we be satisfied with gesture politics, setting goals that sound good but which we and our leaders have no intention of meeting. It\u2019s an open question.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s remember that none of the Millennium Development Goals were reached globally. Progress was made, but this time we have to do better or fail future generations. That would be our greatest failure. It would be unforgivable.<\/em><\/p>\nMeeting the goals will require spectacular global co-operation by governments and the active support and encouragement of citizens, schools and universities around the world. We will send a copy of the exhibition to every prime minister and president, a gentle reminder of the goals they or their predecessors signed up to. I may then go into hiding for a bit but I\u2019m also working with a new generation of singer songwriters on a concert tour with music, theatre and events that reflect the SDGs.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Mark's final comment was that it was misleading to refer to the UN\u00a0Sustainable Development Goals<\/em>. \u00a0Technically, he said, they are owned by the 193 countries that signed up to them.<\/p>\nNice point, I thought, but referring to them as UN goals will provide countries with bucket loads of excuses when they're not met. \u00a0I don't expect to hear a change in terminology any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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