Abstract Plant blindness is an important phenomenon with a growing body of literature. According to researchers, the educational system is listed both among the causes and solutions to this issue. Therefore, previous work regarding this matter has mainly focused on the educational context. While sustainable development is a top priority for every modern society, it has not yet been established whether plant blindness can be a substantive impediment towards this direction. This paper is an attempt to examine any significant relation between this phenomenon and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as these are determined by the United Nations. Through an in-depth, narrative literature review, we show that plant blindness should not be examined lightly as just a differentiation in preference regarding plants and animals. Ignoring flora can be an opposing factor to environmental balance and directly hinder the achievement of the vast majority of SDGs. In that context, the restriction of plant blindness becomes a vital issue for the scientific community and the policy makers. Moreover, sustainable education steps in as the main social process for changing perceptions and dealing with this kind of challenges, but through a modern perspective of place-based education, collective consciousness and vital coalitions of stakeholders.

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植物失明：流行的研究兴趣还是实现可持续发展目标的实质性障碍？

摘要 植物失明是一种重要的现象，文献越来越多。据研究人员称，教育系统被列为这个问题的原因和解决方案。因此，以前关于这个问题的工作主要集中在教育背景上。虽然可持续发展是每个现代社会的重中之重，但尚未确定植物盲症是否会成为朝着这个方向发展的实质性障碍。本文试图研究这种现象与可持续发展目标 (SDG) 之间的任何重要关系，因为这些目标是由联合国确定的。通过深入的叙述性文献回顾，我们表明不应将植物失明仅仅作为对植物和动物的偏好差异来轻视。忽视植物群可能是环境平衡的一个相反因素，并直接阻碍绝大多数可持续发展目标的实现。在这种情况下，限制植物失明成为科学界和决策者的一个重要问题。此外，可持续教育作为改变观念和应对此类挑战的主要社会过程介入，但通过基于地方教育的现代视角、集体意识和利益相关者的重要联盟。