
XIV World Forestry Congress
the quest for Clear skies, tasty water & healthy worldwide lungs
The Science of a healthy life
WFC 15 happens at a time where the world stands to lose up to 170 million hectares of forest from now until 2030 according to the WWF. A sustainable and healthy global forest is not just for the animals and the pretty scenery, it is also a vital element of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. A roadmap for 2030 that intends to create a much healthier Earth, worldwide.

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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030
Scandinavia and Switzerland leads the world
The UN sustainable goals for 2030 contains 17 bigger goals and 169 specific targets. Some of those global health goals include eradication of extreme poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, stopping climate change, providing quality education to all and achieving economic growth.
A recent study focusing on the world's 34 richest developed nations have found that the countries best positioned to meet these crucial goals are the Northern European Viking nations Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland followed by the almost Scandinavian like Switzerland. All while at the bottom of that long list we can find the United States, Greece, Chile, Hungary, Turkey and Mexico representing the developed nations with the least chance of meeting UN´s goals.
One Sustainable World
[169 target goals
one global future]
Amongst 23 of the surveyed countries, the richest 10 percent of the population make as much money as the poorest 40 percent . And in USA the richest ten percent makes 1.7 seven times as much money as the poorest 40% of its population do. And while the world do get more sustainable and healthy for every year that goes by, some of the world's richest nations are doing an exceptionally poor job of nurturing the world's health (which ties us back to the Worlds Forestry Congress ).
South Korea, Britain and the Netherlands to take three sad examples produce less than 4 percent of their own energy from renewable energy!.
In comparison, renewable energy in Iceland, Norway and Sweden is already producing around 50 per cent of those nations total energy production. But even the Scandinavian nations should of course already be producing far more of it´s combined energy production and need from healthy and sustainable sources. Britain and Netherland's should be ashamed, but truth is we all should already be at a 80 to 90% level as far as how much of our national energy need is met by sustainable energy production.
5 nations
[on target
the rest is failing you]
Imagine a forest the size of Germany, France, Spain and Portugal – ripped away from planet Earth and chucked away into cold dark space in 20 years time. And as you consider that, accept the basic reality that whatever nation or corporation is allowing that to happen is basically chucking away at your lungs. Taking away not just their own air and their own food and energy and protective health barriers, but yours too. We have created a global map dividing our one planet in different national borders, but our global health, be it the forests protecting our atmosphere and soil, or the wind, water and sun providing us with energy and the whole of that providing us all with sustainable food, atmosphere and life - the simple reality is that it is one single ecosystem.
It is the same air, the same water, the same forests which we all live and die on.
Just as how China and USA pollute the entire world far more than any other single nation does, heck, they each pollute the entire world more than all of Europe combined do. Just a handful of nations is as of now responsible for 80 % of the deforestation happening between today and 2030. Well, they are of course just the theater where this is happening, while we are all responsible for the destructive and unsustainable deforestation happening at those places.
And I do not know about you, but I think it is time for us all to take the one mutual, global responsibility which we all share. Just as how it is not one or two or three nations fault or now responsibility to help all the unfortunate people fleeing the war-torn middle east. We all live, die and share life on this one finite Earth, and it is time that we all accept that basic reality that we live and we die together on this planet. We all get to live in joyful health and clean air, or we will all live and die with a little less joy and more agony breathing the same polluted air and swimming in the same unhealthy oceans.

Data visualization by WWF
Ready, Set go!.
World Forestry Congress & UN Sustainable Development Goals
It is all about your individual health and our global planetary health, two different things, but also always, and forever one and the same.
So, let´s get healthy together.
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Michael A Koontz
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