The UN’s “Sustainable Development Goals” were built on their predecessor “Millennium Development Goals” – which missed – the next lot will too, but have spawned wasted effort and scarce resources

The United Nations has been setting goals for a very long time, decades in fact .

A Prehistory of the Millennium Development Goals: Four Decades of Struggle for Development in the United Nations | United Nations

The question arises “Has the world developed over decades BECAUSE of or IN SPITE OF actions by the UN?”

30% of the global population resides in India and China. The UN has zero influence over these two countries. If the UN wants to be taken seriously, it needs to show the impact ex-India&China on each of each of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).

It iis instructive to see the narrative around the failed Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) that were “agreed” in 2000 and expired in 2015. The errors have been repeated and presented in a slightly different form, with especial emphasis on Net Zero crap, in the SDG’s – but it’s like putting lipstick on a pig - SSDD.

Put yourself in 2030-2035 and you will see the script written in exactly the same way to explain the abject failure to achieve the SDG’s – whilst ignoring all the obvious evidential and scientific errors that were known at the outset. Stupid is as stupid does and the world’s best are NOT employed by the United Nations or its organs.

Europe and the US have 10% of the world’s population – is the claim that Europe and the US must offset the impact of the actions of India and China in order for the world to achieve the fabricated and uselessly inaccurate SDG’s, especially around climate change?

The EU and US are stagnant already as the result of the accumulation of decades of unrepayable debt because of the Marxist/Maoist policies embedded in their growing “woke” cultures that can only end in disaster for all – being destroyed from the inside out, much like the impact of the mRNA injections.  Increasing socialist policies will limit growth to 1-3% at best for decades, with lots of recessions every few years within those decades. Not great and not what it could or should be,

China and India are booming in comparison, despite the (hopefully) temporary impact of a manufactured and fraudulent “pandemic”. From a global perspective the “vaccination” policies of India and China (and Russia) that DENIED mRNA injections means that these two areas are the best hope for the future of mankind.

To me, the answer is “IN SPITE OF”. I see any government intervention as a negative and view all taxation as theft – to be tolerated if small (with small government) and avoided if large (with big government). I also believe that there is no climate emergency and that hydrocarbon fuels are a blessing not a curse – though all efforts should be made to reduce pollution, especially (micro- and nano-) plastics  in the oceans. I believe these plastics are a species ending event (within 3 decades) for all air breathing life. That’s my “baggage”.

I thought I would take a look at the last “Development Goals” and see whether there is clear evidence of the benefit of the actions of world leaders who coordinated with the UN to produce the 2000 “Millennium Development Goals” – MDG’s.

Much has been written since the MDG’s expired in 2015 and were superseded by the 17 “Sustainable Development Goals“ currently in operation, with end dates of 2030 and 2050 for various “milestones”.

Those 17 SDG’s are here:

THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development (un.org)

“THE 17 GOALS – 169 Targets – 3821 Events -1344 Publications – 7553 Actions”

Quite boondoggle for all those events – 200 at each?

Back to the MDG’s, here they are from the year 2000:

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

Nothing too controversial there, the same sentiments are expressed at any beauty contest. Some might argue that ending wars - (remember the time when the UN would place “peace-keeping” forces in between warring factions?) , reducing violent crimes worldwide, working out the causes of diseases, eradicating treatable pneumonia, migrating skilled westerners to developing countries for 3 year tours of duty, restocking over-fished oceans and so on might get more prominence, but, hey, it its a beauty contest interview after all.

So how close to these goals did we get?

Here is a link to a lengthy piece on the MDG’s that goes into enormous detail.

The Millennium Development Goals: experiences, achievements and what's next - PMC (nih.gov)

And the outturns claimed by the WHO in February 2018 here:

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (who.int)

There’s a crib sheet here:

 Now it is possible to take stock – did the world achieve the Millennium Development Goals? - Our World in Data

The green shading indicates success, the red = failure to meet the goals.

“Overall, the world achieved 3 and a half targets:”

“MDG Target 1.A – halving the share of the world population living in extreme poverty – is a particularly important one and while most people are not aware of it, the world has actually achieved this goal.”

Let’s stop right there. The report covers the period over 15 years from 2000 to 2015. A period when China and India – home of some of the poorest people in the world, turned lifted around a billion people out of poverty – mostly using investment funds and bank balance sheets of western nations (which I would argue, denied poorer people in the West investment and banking opportunities for more risk and with higher fees/costs).

Is the claim that, because of UN directed policies contained in the MDG’s and endorsed by world leaders, people in India, China and elsewhere moved from earning 1-2 dollars a day to 3-4 dollars a day? That implies over half a trillion dollars in additional global GDP. China and India were galloping along at 7-10% after Y2k.

From here: China GDP 1960-2023 | MacroTrends India GDP 1960-2023 | MacroTrends

China GDP increased from 1.2 trillion to 11 trillion between 2000 and 2015. GDP per capita increased from $1,000 to $8,000 – I doubt that the UN had anything to do with these numbers. An increase from 2 bucks a day to 16 bucks.

India GDP increased from 468 billion to 2,103 billion between 2000 and 2015. GDP per capita increased from $442 to $1590 – maybe a tiny bit was influenced by the UN. An increase from around a dollar 50 cents a day to around 4.35 bucks a day.

Using the UN’s own sources, from here:

Poverty | UN Global Compact

“More than 700 million people — or 10 per cent of the global population — still live in extreme poverty, which means they are surviving on less than $1.90 a day. Experts predict these figures will continue to rise as a result of the COVID-19 crisis alongside the ongoing impacts of conflicts and climate change.”

Referencing this 2018 press release:

Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed: World Bank

“The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — down from 11 percent in 2013, reflecting steady but slowing progress, World Bank data show. The number of people living on less than $1.90 a day fell during this period by 68 million to 736 million.”

My point is that China alone likely lifted around 400-500 million people out of “extreme” poverty over those 15 years and India at least 100-200 million – so we need more clarity on which geographies were lifted out of poverty as a result of what actions by which governments and/or the UN.

The figures look like they exclude China and India – the two most populous countries in the world.

If the MDG1A target of halving those living in extreme poverty was achieved, it implies there were 1.2 to 1.4 billion people living in extreme poverty (sub $2 a day) in 2000 – given adjustments for 21% population growth from 6.1 billion people in 2000 and 7.4 billion 15 years later in 2015 – which fell to 700 million people in 2018.

Back to the narrative:

“The achievement of MDG 3 meant that the gender disparity in education was closed at the global level. “

Really? So, there is no disparity at the global level? Well, I guess that was before the invasion of Afghanistan by the Taliban and the exclusion of girls and women from education. Still, it suggests that any countries with similar “Taliban” tendencies are unlikely to have adopted this MDG. Hopefully it is true in large part.

“And MDG Target 6.C on malaria and tuberculosis was achieved as the world was able to reduce the global rate of new infections. “

Okay, I want this to be true. I am still seeing adverts on TV by charities screaming out for mosquito tents and malaria treatments in East Africa. I have no idea if these ads are being run in the US or Europe - or what conditions are like in the worlds equatorial and tropical zones.

“For MDG 7 the world achieved half of this goal – while the goal for sanitation was missed, the world did reach the goal on providing access to safe drinking water.”

Again, the narrative does not square with the narratives of charities begging for money on TV to install clean drinking water outlets in Africa. Maybe this was achieved all across South America, Asia and Africa (but not in Flint!).

“What is clear however, is that most of the UN’s development goals were missed. 12 of the targets are shown in red.”

No need to go into the failures in detail, other than to say “d’uh”. What is useful is to see the narrative OWD applies to the future – the 17 SDG’s currently in force.

“The MDG targets on which the world failed most miserably were the environmental targets in MDG 7 which called for a “reversal of the loss of environmental resources” and a “reduction of biodiversity loss“.

While there were certainly some important successes – very positive trends in the decline of substances which deplete the ozone layer for example –, the global evidence shows that most environmental indicators regressed; global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased approximately 50%; global forest area continued its decline; overexploitation of fish stocks increased; and the Red List Index concluded that “a substantial proportion of species in all taxonomic groups examined to date are declining overall in population and distribution”.

Check out this headline from 2019

MODIS Shows Earth is Greener | Terra (nasa.gov)

“Over the last two decades, the Earth has seen an increase in foliage around the planet, measured in average leaf area per year on plants and trees. Data from NASA satellites shows that China and India are leading the increase in greening on land. The effect stems mainly from ambitious tree planting programs in China and intensive agriculture in both countries.”

The SDG’s are in process now. The Pandemic Treaty and amendments that are larger than the 2005 International Health Regulations themselves are about to be signed into law. The morons are creating an asylum outside the sanatorium. Compliance is on the way via door to door surveillance systems linked directly to law enforcement via an alert system, digital passports are here already, (we just call them cell phones and credit cards) so are digital currencies.

“Welcome to the Borg, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile”- a world of excited misery where we are controlled by morons.

One gets the distinct feeling that if proportionate response to aggression by morons is not undertaken, we will all become morons. No life, no love, no laughter – just physical and mental slavery. Welcome to Mao and Marx.

Onwards!

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