{"id":7492,"date":"2019-06-25T05:48:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2019-06-25T05:48:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:48:35","slug":"an-urgent-plea-from-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/06\/25\/an-urgent-plea-from-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"An Urgent Plea from the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I read a message from the <strong>Global Center for Human Change<\/strong> \u2013 a not-for-profit organisation in New York \u2013 about a new resource: <i>An Urgent Plea from the Future: A Guidebook for Conscious World Citizens<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The message began:<\/p>\n<p>\"<em>I am writing to introduce you the Global Center for Human Change and an exciting new publication we are launching at colleges and universities around the world in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. \u00a0While the United Nations has identified our global challenges in the 17 SDGs, our greatest challenge is finding a new level of human response to these challenges.\u00a0 The Global Center has teamed up with the UN SDGs to introduce the 17 Sustainable Development Goal Alignments \u2013 a series of inner human alignments that show an 'essential shift' in the way we think and address challenges, so we can embrace a new future. \u00a0<\/em><em>You will find more details on this new publication, \"<strong>An Urgent Plea from the Future<\/strong>\", in the attached letter, along with our information on our global project.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The attached letter said that the\u00a0Center's \"aim is to make this book available to every young person around the world\". \u00a0 I thought this rather ambitious, particularly given that it's being sold at \u00a316 per copy. \u00a0Not really a sound strategy to reach every young person across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>And so I enquired of the publishers about this seeming contradiction. \u00a0I was told that the\u00a0plan is to seek support from foundations and corporate sponsors so that the materials can be provided to young people around the world for free. \u00a0 Commendable, perhaps, but it's still ambitious, given the number of\u00a0young people there actually are. \u00a0Maybe they could share.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, to order your minimum order of 20 copies\u00a0just email: info@humanevolutarychange.org.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I read a message from the Global Center for Human Change \u2013 a not-for-profit organisation in New York \u2013 about a new resource: An Urgent Plea from the Future: A Guidebook for Conscious World Citizens. The message began:...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}