The Millennium Development Goals: Engineering Good
Dr. Eric Lagally has posted an invited blog on the Millennium Development Goals on End the Neglect, the official blog of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases.
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Dr. Lagally states:
But, perhaps the best thing to emerge from the MDG tenure thus far has been the bold yet implicit assertion that these problems are solvable. … Regardless of whether we achieve any of the MDGs, they will have laid the framework for an important concept: the amount of good in the world is not conserved. We can all create good. And when we do, we make progress toward solving problems much larger than ourselves.
The complete blog may be read here.