Sincerely Yours Earthly...

Photo credit: www.fcm.org.uk C ongratulations to the world as we have yet again successfully delivered another set of pointers leading to the much envisaged sustainable future, branded as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although the new set of goals share a basis of similarity in objective with the old Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) in the view of extreme poverty eradication and other interrelated factors that were developed as supporting goals. This time around the goals have increased in number to seventeen but still central to addressing the same root issues as identified in the MDGs. The difference however could be attributed to the explicitness in definition which may have resulted in the broadening for more goals; else than that we might just say we have succeeded in re-dressing an old banner with many colourful scarfs. In a way, it only seem our leaders are collectively repeating class as regards the global commitment which saw not so much distinctive c...

Photo credit: Encyclical word cloud In the wake of 2015, every pointer was in the direction of a productive year of substantial and unequivocal leap of meaningful development in the wise of global action at tackling the seemingly burdens of concern for the whole of humanity-Sustainable development and climate change. While the habitual records of global imbalanced portrayal of concern has for one represented the accumulating factor of delays and of course the possible reprimanding results of such delays, every hopeful heart that had never tarried at raising a common voice of change envisioned and anticipated a possible event changing year. A year of action it’s been tagged as and from all possible scenario, the potential of the year still depicts a level of certainty in the tune of change of tides. Although the year is already halved and the odds still counts on the side of would it really be the year of final breakthrough? The recently released Encyclicals by the Pope added...