Today we visited NMK’s «smart city lab” to do research concerning the UN’s sustainable development goals. Our task was specifically to pick a goal we thought was as or more important than climate action and discuss it in a podcast.
In my opinion, poverty is one of the first problems we should focus on fixing. If no one lived in poverty it would solve many of the other problems. People would get educated, and that alone would make it so that more people have the competence to contribute to solving the other world problems we have.
While working on this project I learned a lot about the sustainable development goals. Most of them will not be reached by 2030 as planned, but that does not mean that we should give up. We are making progress in most of the goals, and we should be working harder to reach them. The climate problem is urgent and important and will have consequences for everyone on earth if we don’t do some drastic changes as soon as possible.
I learned a lot today from researching this topic, especially concerning climate change and what is being done and what is not being done. I also learned about circular economy, and how we should aim towards zero waste, and maybe even produce more from the waste we make than the actual waste.
A lot of problems would be solved if we eliminated poverty, and the top 10% of rich people stopped being so greedy and wasteful.
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