Three pillars of sustainable development, young people and their rights

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The member states of the United Nations have this week agreed on ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, but youth has been neglected in the adopted document.

There is made an agreement on a universal, interlinked agenda that applies to all countries and brings together the three pillars of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental. Its core aims – to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty, reduce inequality, achieve gender equality, improve water management and energy, and take urgent action to combat climate change should help to improve millions of lives – will help ensure the future of our planet for forthcoming generations.

But the younger generations are somewhat forgotten. Young people and their rights are not prioritised.

Find more about it on:

European Youth cries out: Sustainable Development Goals ambitious, but lack focus on youth

+++

Related articles

• U.N. states agree on post-2015 sustainable development agenda
• U.N. states agree post-2015 sustainable development agenda
• U.N. states agree post-2015 sustainable development agenda
• U.N. states agree post-2015 sustainable development agenda
• World mayors warn of threats to mankind, commit to UN development goals
• UN member states set new agenda to end poverty, hunger in next 15 years
• UN states set goal to end poverty, hunger in next 15 years
• UN states set goal to end poverty, hunger in next 15 years
• U.N. states set goal to end poverty, hunger in next 15 years
• Ban Ki-moon hails SDGs agreed by 193 nations as 'leaving no one behind'

Pope Francis Raises Hopes for an Ecological Church

The new pope’s choice of the name Francis, to honour the Catholic Church’s patron saint of animals and the environment, has awakened the hopes of ecologists and others who are concerned about rampant consumerism and the deterioration of the planet.

The Basilica of Aparecida (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In Latin America and Africa, “environmental problems are closely linked to poverty, with the poor living in areas that are the most vulnerable to climate change and the degradation of the soil,” he said.

Both environmentalists and bishops in Latin America criticise consumerism and urge people to follow a simpler lifestyle.
The pope’s homily was in line with the recommendations set forth in the final document of the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops in Aparecida, Brazil, in 2007.

Read more: Pope Francis Raises Hopes for an Ecological Church

Related articles

• New: "In Him Only is Our Hope: The Church According to the Heart of Pope Francis"
• Pope Begins Interfering With Politics By Urging Denial Of Communion
• Why the new pope is a problem for American Catholics
• Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints
• Madre Laura named Colombia's first saint
• Pope Francis Nominates All Mothers For Sainthood
• Pope Francis: a new approach to communication
• Pope Francis Urges Bishops to Deny Communion to Pro-Abortion Catholics

Taking care of mother earth

Do we want to make the effort to treat the earth well, no matter what and where others might vandalize it?
Men manages to destroy lots of parts of his environment. Sometimes he does not seem to be aware that he destroys nature. If the earth is to be inevitably destroyed, like sin might destroy us, do we just let the earth go to its destruction?

Men has received the possibility to be master of this earth, meaning that he himself can take care of it. But it does not mean he has to be a dictator over it. We our selves have to take care in the first place of our selfs. It is a very difficult task to come to perfection, but that is what we should try to do. Even as we never quite reach perfection, that fact does not prevent us from talking about the high standard for us of God’s moral perspective.
We should know from the instructions given by God in His Word that God has a moral perspective. The idea of caring for one another and caring for our place on the earth moves us from a reward based faith to a place where we do good for good’s sake, or God’s sake.

Having a small position or a high place in our comunity we do have to take up our responsibility.

You can read how a Royal House tries to keep nature in good order:

Royals, mini busses and environment

As a Global Non-political group of individual Christians waiting for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ we want to take care of nature, the Creation of the Most High.

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie: Zorg dragen voor moeder natuur

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you;
be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."
- W. Clement Stone

"Do not be misled:
'Bad company corrupts good character.'"
1 Corinthians 15:33

God, let me always choose the right people to deal with.
Let me also always be alert to take over only the good qualities of others.

Dutch version / Nederlandse versie > Wees voorzichtig, de omgeving die je kiest zal je vormgeven

+++

2015 update

Related articles

• 1 Corinthians 1:19-21
• Let's Create An Atmosphere Of Faith....Based On Our Belief In The Power Of God
• We Speak a Different Language
• Don't Let the Crabs Pull You Down
• Judging Others
• The Revelation Of Jesus Christ: "they lived and reigned with Christ"
• Scripture of the Day, 8/19
• Head Covering A Symbol To The Unseen Realm
• Tree signs: Love never fails
• Friday, 14 August 2015 : Vigil Mass of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Second Reading)