The UN was created at the end of WWII to end the scourge of war. That's how the UN Charter has it, signed here in San Francisco on June 26, 1945. Support for nuclear disarmament was among the very first actions of the UN, and the UN has consistently supported peace and nuclear disarmament up to the present.
Now, as one of the world's hi-tech centers, San Francisco is poised to bring the cities of the world together on behalf of all the goals of the UN. There already are global initiatives to foster metropolitan support for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But the SDGs do not include the prime UN goals of peace and disarmament. The nuclear armed nations will not even consider giving up their horrifying weapons, so when the SDGs were framed in 2015, disarmament could not be included. But the cities of the world do not have nukes and they are the targets, so they do support nuclear disarmament and peace as well as the SDGs.
We can justify saying San Francisco is “poised” to network the cities of the world for all of the UN goals because it has to happen. The nations, armed with nuclear weapons, cannot cooperate as they must to handle climate change and other pressing global issues. So the job falls to the cities of the world to jumpstart the process, and San Francisco has the money, the hi-tech skills and the global perspective that is needed.
#UNgoals4cities #peace #apart
