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Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development
The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world’s religious and secular traditions offer in support of these objectives? Which principles do these traditions hold in common, and how can these shared values help advance global goals?
This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts. Drawing on more than two years of close-knit discussions convened by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, it offers an extensive and inclusive vision of how to promote human flourishing. The book features theological, philosophical, and ethical deliberations of great diversity and depth on the challenges of sustainable development, addressing questions of poverty, environmental justice, peace, conflict, and the future of work. It includes consensus statements on the moral imperatives of sustainable development, introductions to seven major religious traditions and their conceptions of the common good, and thematic reflections. Wide-ranging and urgent, this book represents a major contribution to interreligious dialogue and to the articulation of a shared global ethics.
The book features a foreword by Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts. Drawing on more than two years of close-knit discussions convened by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, it offers an extensive and inclusive vision of how to promote human flourishing. The book features theological, philosophical, and ethical deliberations of great diversity and depth on the challenges of sustainable development, addressing questions of poverty, environmental justice, peace, conflict, and the future of work. It includes consensus statements on the moral imperatives of sustainable development, introductions to seven major religious traditions and their conceptions of the common good, and thematic reflections. Wide-ranging and urgent, this book represents a major contribution to interreligious dialogue and to the articulation of a shared global ethics.
The book features a foreword by Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
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Published May 30, 2023
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
107 books795 followersJeffrey David Sachs, is an American economist, public policy analyst, and former director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor, the highest rank Columbia bestows on its faculty. He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty.
Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a professor of health policy and management at Columbia's School of Public Health. As of 2017, he serves as special adviser to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global goals adopted at a UN summit meeting in September 2015. He held the same position under the previous UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and prior to 2016 a similar advisory position related to the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight internationally sanctioned objectives to reduce extreme poverty, hunger and disease by the year 2015. In connection with the MDGs, he had first been appointed special adviser to the UN Secretary-General in 2002 during the term of Kofi Annan.
In 1995, Sachs became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). He is co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. From 2002 to 2006, he was director of the United Nations Millennium Project's work on the MDGs. He is director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and co-editor of the World Happiness Report with John F. Helliwell and Richard Layard. In 2010, he became a commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, whose stated aim is to boost the importance of broadband in international policy. Sachs has written several books and received many awards.
Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a professor of health policy and management at Columbia's School of Public Health. As of 2017, he serves as special adviser to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global goals adopted at a UN summit meeting in September 2015. He held the same position under the previous UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and prior to 2016 a similar advisory position related to the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight internationally sanctioned objectives to reduce extreme poverty, hunger and disease by the year 2015. In connection with the MDGs, he had first been appointed special adviser to the UN Secretary-General in 2002 during the term of Kofi Annan.
In 1995, Sachs became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). He is co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger. From 2002 to 2006, he was director of the United Nations Millennium Project's work on the MDGs. He is director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and co-editor of the World Happiness Report with John F. Helliwell and Richard Layard. In 2010, he became a commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, whose stated aim is to boost the importance of broadband in international policy. Sachs has written several books and received many awards.
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June 28, 2024
A VERY DISAPPOINTING read. I was hopeful that this would be a worthy read for pursuing the improvement of the life of mankind around the globe. Unfortunately each chapter focused on the self named progressivism that is proving to be a Trojan horse, only to bring chaos and decline because of man’s sinful nature, especially as power is ‘centralized’ and when so-called ‘educated’ think their improved knowledge is New Understanding. As Solomon, so wisely told us, There’s nothing new under the sun.
I won’t gaslight what the self named progressives have already tried to drag into the marketplace of ideas under the umbrella of the UN’s cesspool of globalization, thereby centralizing governmental power thereby eliminating marketplace options for mankind to live in. History has gruesomely taught mankind that ultimate power corrupts ultimately. The so-called educated, those who composed this manifesto, appear to intentionally left these lessons-learned out of their glass tower vision for globalization.
If we look deep into just one topic, that of educating our youth, our future, as just one example, we see the extreme fallacy and risk of centralizing the means, methods and outcome. Education by definition is bringing recipients ‘out of depravity’. The depravity of mankind is our natural staid pursuing our fleshly desires absent of morals, ethics and truth. Parents begin the transformation of children from birth by their daily instruction and example setting. At some point, they may entrust the education of their children to schools. These maybe community coops, private or governmental schools. As state and federal centralization of ‘education’ has occurred over the last 7-9 decades, the resources or inputs of government education have skyrocketed while the documented basic testing of useable knowledge (math, reading, science and history) have fallen dramatically. Using just one data point: Chicago Public Schools student scores. Only 30% of graduating high school students were able to read or do basic math problems. A disastrous outcome within a so-called ‘progressive’ city. Bottom line, a Total Failure. Going deeper, all one needs to read are the Chicago Public Teachers Union negotiating demands to understand how misguided The System has left student success in a modern complex society far behind. The social contract that parents extended to the ‘educators’ both administrators and teachers, has been violated by all.
This is my perspective about the entire work.
This concept of Globalism as embraced by the UN gives me great concern for the value vs cost to world societies going forward. My bottom line: It’s Time for a RESET.
I won’t gaslight what the self named progressives have already tried to drag into the marketplace of ideas under the umbrella of the UN’s cesspool of globalization, thereby centralizing governmental power thereby eliminating marketplace options for mankind to live in. History has gruesomely taught mankind that ultimate power corrupts ultimately. The so-called educated, those who composed this manifesto, appear to intentionally left these lessons-learned out of their glass tower vision for globalization.
If we look deep into just one topic, that of educating our youth, our future, as just one example, we see the extreme fallacy and risk of centralizing the means, methods and outcome. Education by definition is bringing recipients ‘out of depravity’. The depravity of mankind is our natural staid pursuing our fleshly desires absent of morals, ethics and truth. Parents begin the transformation of children from birth by their daily instruction and example setting. At some point, they may entrust the education of their children to schools. These maybe community coops, private or governmental schools. As state and federal centralization of ‘education’ has occurred over the last 7-9 decades, the resources or inputs of government education have skyrocketed while the documented basic testing of useable knowledge (math, reading, science and history) have fallen dramatically. Using just one data point: Chicago Public Schools student scores. Only 30% of graduating high school students were able to read or do basic math problems. A disastrous outcome within a so-called ‘progressive’ city. Bottom line, a Total Failure. Going deeper, all one needs to read are the Chicago Public Teachers Union negotiating demands to understand how misguided The System has left student success in a modern complex society far behind. The social contract that parents extended to the ‘educators’ both administrators and teachers, has been violated by all.
This is my perspective about the entire work.
This concept of Globalism as embraced by the UN gives me great concern for the value vs cost to world societies going forward. My bottom line: It’s Time for a RESET.
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