Dear Editor: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Dear Editor,

Having just read approximately the first half of The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as posted on the United Nations website (https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda) I can affirm, with all the positivity I can muster, it SOUNDS pretty good, at least to some extent. Gender Equality: YES! Ending Poverty: YES! Protect the planet: YES! Promote peace: YES!

All these are lofty goals, but do we really need governmental assistance in these matters? In this agenda, “the rule of law” and “universal law” come up frequently. With all conspiratorial theories aside, such as the sinister, almost hidden agenda of the NWO or the One World Government; suffice it to say that laws do not make better people.

A representative statement from the latter half of Article 18 of said Agenda reads: “We reaffirm that every State has, and shall freely exercise, full permanent sovereignty over all its wealth, natural resources and economic activity. We will implement the Agenda for the full benefit of all, for today’s generation and for future generations. In doing so, we reaffirm our commitment to international law and emphasize that the Agenda is to be implemented in a manner that is consistent with the rights and obligations of states under international law.”

Doesn’t this sound somewhat self-contradictory? Not that I believe ‘”there ought to be a law;” but saying the States should implement these policies on their own, then strongly implying that if the States do not implement these policies according to “universal law,” that they (UN) will then step in and make sure they are? Sounds like a Police State to me.

I am a bit of a conspiracy theorist; I can imagine there are plenty of “theories” or “facts” floating around out there, I do not intend to bring these into the mix, except perhaps, in passing. As I implied earlier, though, all the goals mentioned in the Agenda are attainable and sustainable by ‘We the People.” Why haven’t we done so? Some might blame it on a lack of education, though others might say, along with Pink Floyd, “We Don’t Need No Education.” Either way, education IS a key component, for good or for ill. Education is indeed necessary, but when one, elitist group controls said “education,” are we really learning anything but what they want us to know?

Charles Haddon Shank

Whitehall, Montana