Pittsburgh has now become the second city in the United States to officially adopt the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

This means that among other things, they are dedicated to completely eradicating poverty, eliminating pollution, and improving the quality of life and educational opportunities for all people in the region.

Big Promises For Big Change

The government won't be able to achieve all of this themselves though, they've admitted that it is going to take help from nonprofits, universities, and hospitals, in order for them to fund and implement the various sustainable goals.

They are following in the footsteps of the United Nations on what actions and goals they should strive to implement as a progress plan for their region and the planet overall.

They are ambitious goals to strive toward, with some arguably impossible to achieve, such as trying to rid Pittsburgh of poverty entirely.

Are they truly concerned about boosting quality of living for those in the region?

Is that why they have no mention of ending the war on drugs yet in Pittsburgh? Surely there are thousands of drug users, patients, who would drastically see their quality of life improve once government stopped initiating violence against them for peaceful actions. What about taxes, if the government is concerned with poverty have they considered reducing the amount of money that they take from people in the region? Has that even been a consideration for one moment? Or what about an overhaul of the self-destructive fiat monetary policy that they operate with? Is it part of the goal to introduce currency competition instead and stop running down the path of continual deterioration of purchasing power? Will that ever be on the agenda? Because these are honest changes that can be made which would help them get closer to the supposed goals that they say they want to achieve.

What about drastically scaling back on occupational licensing in the region? Studies have shown that they keep millions of jobs out of the market, they keep quality low and prices high. Our lives would be better in many ways if that violence were pulled back, and so we have to wonder if such a change might be considered, as a part of trying to eventually achieve these U.N. goals. It's not likely that it will though, and because it won't, I don't believe the lie that they are at all concerned with quality of life for the individual, education opportunities, or poverty in any sense, among their other promises on building a hopeful future for humanity.

State representatives insist that they care about quality of life and poverty for the future of the human race, but won't consider putting an end to the initiation of violence against the individual now or in the future. Just as well, they won't stop a war on trying to police their personal choices and tell them how to live their lives or what they can and cannot do with their own property.

The U.N. and other government agencies aren't going to rely on the market to help achieve these goals, they don't care whether most or a majority of individuals agree with their goals or not and they aren't waiting around for them to voluntarily engage in the actions to make the change possible. Instead, they will be using violence via bureaucrats to make it happen. It's not like they've ever made a mistake before, so there's plenty of comfort in that. And it will be interesting to see just how they plan to officially and completely do away with poverty around the world, even just in Pittsburgh, or how they might try to noticeably boost quality of living for all, or watch them pursue peace and justice as per one of their sustainable development goals that goes along with creating "strong institutions".

Sounds like a wise enough plan doesn't it? Trying to achieve peace through violence?...

If peace were honestly a goal they were striving to work toward, then they would respect the right of the individual to decide for themselves. We would finally hear a discussion about the potential for reducing the use of violence on everyday life and natural rights, but we aren't hearing that. What we are going to get is even more violence initiated against natural rights and it's doubtful that will bring the state anywhere close to achieving these sustainable development goals.

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