Years later I went to university.
I think listeners and readers alike may of overlooked this statement. I cannot be completely sure but it seems like in this type of culture going of to college, especially as a female would be a difficult task. The fact that she was able to go to University and her parents were fine with it either speaks to their character or her ability to persuade (or both).
But as I reached puberty, I underwent female genital mutilation, known as FGM
I didn't know what this was as I was reading through the text. But, when I went through the video and saw the not so friendly looking tools appear on the screen I had to perform a brief research. What I found was surprising - to say the least - and caused me to react with a lot of grimacing and cringing. Nonetheless, it is interesting how different cultures view different things. In certain parts of the world this could be viewed as normal whereas, here this is any but that. Sometimes we forget how different places around the world are and, this (at least for me) was a great reminder of that.
To empower girls, you need to educate them.
The definition of empower is to "make (someone) stronger and more confident, especially in controlling their life and claiming their rights". I agree with the this statement made by the speaker. I would also argue it is extremely hard if not impossible to empower someone without education. Because in order for someone to have whole empowerment - creating confidence and standing up for themselves. They have to understand why they do what they will do and hold steady when they face adversity. I feel that without education their is no real foundation to hold up "empowerment" when times get tough.
We’re talking about good, fresh food that is being wasted on a colossal scale.
He is completely right. A few weeks ago I was at Panera and I overheard the workers talking about an order. Apparently something had happened and this customer was not coming to pick up their steak n Cheese. But they had already made the sandwich. I was actually really tempted to go and ask for it - who wouldn't want a free sandwich? But, with no hesitation they threw away a perfectly good sandwich. I feel like there is so many things you could have done with the sandwich. Why throw it away?
I’d seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.
A few weeks ago I volunteered at the Howard County Foodbank. I was a "Marketplace Assistant" and I help organize the baskets and managed the production line. But, at one point I was packing what are called "Bread Bags" - one of the bags that goes into the foodbank bundle sent out to people. There were more than three huge ins (All 1/4 size of a dumpster) that were filled to the brim with bread; and all of them had a label that they were from. I forgot what store they were from but, I think it was one similar to sprouts. But what I really thought was how do they have all of this bread to give away, don't they need it? But reading this made me think maybe grocery stores to have that much extra goods - mind-blowing!
The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex.
I am not someone who is familiar with the animal market - or how much they cost. But, I was surprised that at the age of 15 he was able to by "pigs" plural. Especially, provided that he said he was only 16. I am kind of interested in what he did un order to earn the money to buy those pigs. Or, maybe his parents or someone sent him out to buy the pigs. Either way I would think that, multiple pigs is a lot of money .
The Social Progress Index sums all this together using 52 indicators to create an aggregate score on a scale of 0 to 100.
Today I have seemed to taken the role of the critic on this script in my last two comments (LOL). So, naturally my last comment has to be a critique as well.I think the SPI (Social progress Index) was a good idea. Most casual readers and viewer's cannot and will not want to sift through multiple umbers and statements to see whether or not the SDG and the world are making progress. However, there is the saying " Jack of trades, master of none". In other words it is very hard to cover this many topics and combine them into one efficiently. Going of simply what I think, I do not think this is a good indicator. Maybe it would be better to present each separate indicator maybe grouped into 10 sections. Enough where readers can understand it but, so that the data is not skewed as much.
Secondly, does everyone have the building blocks of a better life: education, information, health and a sustainable environment? And does everyone have the opportunity to improve their lives, through rights, freedom of choice, freedom from discrimination, and access to the world’s most advanced knowledge?
I think that these are all good points. However, I do wonder if things such this as equal access to 'top tier' knowledge and education could cripple the growth of societies. If everyone has access to knowledge and resources I think two things that are bad could possibly happen. Because everyone has access to everything their is no drive to 'push forward' or be innovative. Because they have 'everything' they need right in front of them. also, having access to top tier information means less failure as an entrepreneur or normal person in our economy and while less failure is better. Failure usually means you learn more. Without failure Elon Musk may not be THE Elon we know to day and etcetera. The amount of access and databases could potentially hinder exponential growth of society as we have seen in the past.
Did we hit this target? Well, no, we didn’t. We exceeded it. This year, global poverty is going to fall to 12 percent.
See this is a pretty good - if not insane number. However - just to pose a question - do we think that maybe the well being of the earth is more than these SDG goals? Yes they are important but, does world hunger or poverty has as much significance when the social fabric in countries is waning. For example the storming of the capital or insane natural events like the sandstorm in China. I think that it is possible we compare the worlds success to much to these 'hard' goals instead of balance between these and our 'social' goals or connections,
Now, the Global Goals are certainly ambitious, but they’re not about turning the world into Norway in just 15 years. So having looked at the numbers, my estimate is that a score of 75 would not only be a giant leap forward in human well-being, it would also count as hitting the Global Goals target. So there’s our target, 75 out of 100. Can we get there?
I really like this point because the speaker acknowledges we can't get the score of 100, that perfection is not realistic - which it isn't. I think it gives the speaker more credibility with the audience because they are going to be more trustworthy of him if they think he is being honest and not super optimistic. I agree with his take that score of around 75 would be phenomenal for our global state and an incredible goal to reach.
We exceeded it. This year, global poverty is going to fall to 12 percent.
I think that the lower the global poverty rate is the less attention we will pay to it. I think as it becomes 'less' of a problem we will focus on other things that require resources that could be used for global poverty. However, I think the more that if countries with high rates of global poverty get involved in helping themselves we could possibly come close to the worldwide elimination of poverty. I am not saying these countries are doing nothing but (to my knowledge) these countries receive a lot of extra help from exterior countries. In order to completely diminish poverty, impoverished countries' governments and political systems would have to change, which I think will be hard to do - but no impossible.
Do you think the world is going to be a better place next year? In the next decade? Can we end hunger, achieve gender equality, halt climate change, all in the next 15 years?
I do think that as the years go on our world will continue to become a better place. But, I do not think ending hunger and Gender equality will be 'ended' ever. However, I do actually think in 15 years we will be closer to making climate change a very very smaller problem. Even though climate change and the global warming effect can only go up for the most part. I think we have the technology and the drive to get it down. With the new generation taking over and with this being a problem that could end life on earth I think we will be forced to move and become generally green earth.
Take responsibility for the effects of your words and actions on others, even when your intentions were not to cause them harm
I think this is something we forget a lot of times when talking or typing. That the message we want to relay may not be the one received. And it is better to understand that this sometimes happens and that it's okay. Because I feel like when people do understand that miscommunication can happen, they are less likely to recognize and/or apologize for a statement that may have been received as offensive.
This means we will work to think first of others, their benefit, their well-being, and their learning, knowing that others are compassionately working for our benefit. We will strive to see our interdependence and interconnectedness, and labor for one another.
I have heard of this same concept sprinkled around the different articles and in different conversations. The fact is that by everyone being companions - working for others needs. It has a sort of interlocking effect within the group. Everyone is able to benefit without actually doing what they think is most important - which would revolve around themselves. This standard is something that I think can be extremely beneficial in learning environments.
To act or speak violently out of spite, chauvinism, or self-interest, to impoverish, exploit or deny basic rights to anybody, and to incite hatred by denigrating others—even our enemies—is a denial of our common humanity. We in this class acknowledge that we have failed to live compassionately to some degree.
This part of the charter, for me, was a little confusing as the end when it said "is a denial to our common humanity". But, I think it's saying that pitting ourselves against each other is just comprising ourselves as a group of people on this earth. I thought this was interesting because usually in society, people are separated. Whether that be based on sex, race, religion, culture, etc. We do not usually see each other as members of humanity but, more members of our own separate groups. I also liked the conclusion of the paragraph which lets the reader know it is okay not to be fully perfect and that we all have made these e mistakes at some point.