One of a series of Blogs as part of a sustainability study course
Sustainability, society and you:  The University of Nottingham

Article 2:12
This from the
UN’s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005-2014).
“Education for Sustainable Development means including key sustainable development issues into teaching and learning; for example, climate change, disaster risk reduction, biodiversity, poverty reduction, and sustainable consumption.” Etc, etc 

This to me is a bunch pious platitudes by the well educated “Haves” pretending they care about the uneducated “Have Not’s”  The first thing to do is commit to making certain that all humans can read and write properly by the time they are fifteen years of age, then they will have some chance of understanding and incorporating these pious ideals in to their lives

A look at the numbers in the following link will give a better idea of the real situation. One of the numbers gives the following

“Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen”
See, Global Issues: Poverty Facts and Stats

Having watched the videos, all very nice touchy, touchy, feely, feely, stuff showing how the impoverished of this world can improve “their” lot while behaviour of the 25% of the world’s population that live in relative comfort are not mentioned.

Patting ourselves on the back because we let poor black people paint on the walls of rundown buildings, in the ghettoes they are forced to live in, is hardly something that we should be shouting about.

Children scavenging on open, festering, tip heads are hardly something that anyone living in The EU or USA would regard as sustainable for their children.

To coin a phrase from “Oliver” I think they need to think it out again…………