Tag Archives: 联合国可持续发展目标：佛教思想及贡献
- 8-11-2019
联合国可持续发展目标：佛教思想及贡献
我们正生活在一个对可持续发展和福利充满巨大挑战的世界中。数十亿的世界公民生活在贫困中，他们被剥夺了有尊严的生活。此外，国家内部和国家之间的不平等现象正在加剧。失业是一个主要问题。全球正面临多种健康挑战，频密及严重的自然灾害，家庭、社会和国家的冲突和暴力事件正在世界各地发生。此外，我们正面临自然资源枯竭以及环境创伤（生态环境的恶化）等不的影响：：如荒漠化，干旱，土地退化，淡水短缺和生态系统退化。
坦白地说，我们作为人类，是这些全球挑战的问题的根源及解决之道。聪明的人创造了可以改善人类生活的创新，例如现代医学，计算机，运输，通信设备，洁净能源及先进科学技术。另一方面，具有自私和邪恶思想的人导致了经济危机，环境污染，气候变化和不平等问题冲击着全球。其中还有更严重的问题，例如暴力，大规模屠杀，恐怖主义和区域性的冲突。这是一个自相矛盾的世界。为了所有人的利益，国际社会迫切需要针对这些挑战的新颖，创造性和强大的解决方案。
We are now living in a world of immense challenges to sustainable development and well-being. Billions of world citizens continue to live in poverty and they are denied a life of dignity. There are rising inequalities within and among countries. Unemployment is a major concern. Global health threats, more frequent and intense natural disasters, conflicts and violence in families, societies and nations occur around the world. Moreover, we are facing a time characterized by the depletion of natural resources and the effects of adverse impacts of environmental degradation, including desertification, drought, land degradation, freshwater scarcity and loss of biodiversity.
Truthfully speaking, we, as human beings, are the center of the problem, as well as the solution, to these global challenges. Intelligent people have created innovations that have bolstered the lives of mankind, such as modern medicine, computers, transportation, communication devices, clean energy, advanced science and technology. On the other hand, people with selfish and wicked minds have troubled the world with economic crises, environment pollution, climate change and inequalities; not to mention many more severe problems such as violence, mass killing, terrorism and regional conflicts that lead to wars. This is a world of paradox. The world’s community is in urgent need for new, creative and powerful solutions to these challenges for the benefit of all.