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Why we need the Millennium Development Goals

Two millennia of human social evolution: simultaneously impressive and disturbing

As the human family approached and entered the third millennium, an objective observer of our species’ evolutionary progress could have been equally impressed and disturbed

On the other hand, despite all of our intelligence and imagination, we still had not been able to devise and implement a socio-economic system that could alleviate the excruciating pains that poverty, prejudice, ignorance and indifference were inflicting upon hundreds of millions of people.

On the other hand, despite all of our intelligence and imagination, we still had not been able to devise and implement a socio-economic system that could alleviate the excruciating pains that poverty, prejudice, ignorance and indifference were inflicting upon hundreds of millions of people. Every day, all around the world, people were going hungry; suffering from serious, debilitating, often fatal public health epidemics; being treated like second or third class citizens in their countries because of their economic status or gender. Even in the world’s most advanced, prosperous and free nations people were slipping through the holes in the various social safety nets that had been erected and being de facto denied their right to fully participate in and enjoy the fruits of society for preposterous reasons which were based on age old prejudices.

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