Introduction
People are talking increasingly about Agenda 2030, but what exactly
is it? Basically it is a 35-page document produced by the United Nations
entitled Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
which sets out seventeen goals to be achieved by 2030. Above the goals
hover overarching aims, which are not only frighteningly utopian but
read as though formulated by an ill-educated child.
According to the document’s first paragraph, the Agenda seeks to “strengthen universal peace in larger freedom”.[1]
What is larger freedom, how can you strengthen universal peace in it
and how are you going to get universal peace to start with? The
paragraph then says that “eradicating poverty in all its forms and
dimensions, including extreme poverty, is … an indispensable requirement
for sustainable development”. Why mention extreme poverty if you’re
going to eradicate poverty itself, how are you going to eradicate it,
and what does this have to do with sustainable development, whatever
that is? A few paragraphs later, the Agenda envisages “a world free of …
disease and want”.[2]
Think of that! No more disease! No more unmet desires! This is
frightening because although such aims will never be achieved there is
no telling what horrors might be created in the attempt, and the attempt
is being made. It has been going on since 1st January 2016, when the
Agenda came into effect having been adopted a few weeks earlier by 193
countries at the UN General Assembly.
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