Chapter 7
A shared vision
How the SDGs define our future in a way we can all accept
If our purpose is to thrive in community and celebrate life itself, we need to know where this takes us. Vision is simply the manifestation of purpose at an important time horizon. In several workshop sessions that I’ve run with a variety of audiences (schools, universities and professional groups), people have been asked to close their eyes and envisage a better world at a 2030 time horizon. On every occasion the world they describe is totally consistent with the SDGs, conveniently as described and adopted by world leaders at the United Nations in New York in September 2015. This is especially convenient because we therefore don’t have to sell the SDGs as a ...
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