U.N.'s sustainable development goals override objections from scientists

[Viligant_Warrior]

Exclusive: UN ignores science council warnings in creating vast Sustainable Development Goals

When the United Nations approved a massive agenda of sustainable development goals last week, it over-rode pointed warnings by two international science councils that the program is in many ways uncoordinated, unmeasurable and unrealistically ambitious.

Managers of the vast exercise in setting the global, progressive agenda for the next 15 years known as the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) decided it would be “too dangerous” to reopen the sprawling package to improve it, according to Anne-Sophie Stevance, lead coordinator of the critical analysis and a science officer with the International Council for Science (ICSU), the most prominent voice of the international scientific community.

“I know our report was considered by the U.N.,” Stevance told Fox News. “I participated in meetings in January and February about it.”

Nonetheless, she said, “the governments involved did not want to compromise any of the work they had done to agree” on the SDGs to make them more efficient, achievable or even coherent.

Despite the councils' warnings, the original proposals were published virtually unedited. A couple days after the SDGs were announced, Obama pledged U.S. support for the effort with "whatever it takes" to achieve them.

That represents a huge challenge. The SDGs are a sprawling and shapeless bid to establish a global socialist/progressive agenda, not to mention a blank check required for trillions of dollars annually in development spending to achieve -- assuming they are even achievable, which is not likely.

 

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When science and politics collide.

 

[Omni]

Better to aim for the stars and land on the moon ....