Lesson 3 of 84 · Global Economy
⭐ 30 XP⚓ Market PortGlobal Goals: Sustainable Development
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are 17 targets — including ending poverty, ensuring clean water, and fighting climate change — that countries work toward by 2030 to build a better world.
🎯 Your mission
Trade-offs everywhere — find them.
⚡ The twist
Cheap for you usually means expensive for someone else.
Mind = Blown
🤯 The first ATM was installed in 1967 — and used radioactive ink.
Then & Now
💱 Every receipt you've ever seen has this idea inside it.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are 17 targets — including ending poverty, ensuring clean water, and fighting climate change — that countries work toward by 2030 to build a better world.
Key Facts
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948.
Over 100 million people are displaced worldwide.
About 7,000 languages are spoken on Earth.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 2What does fair trade help ensure?
Why this still matters
The next time you spend $1, ask: who else benefited besides you?
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Track every dollar you spend or get this week. Then figure out the pattern.
For the dinner table
“If you had $20 to start a business, what would you sell?”
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