facing us as a species today are not so easy for people to understand. but, you know, beating the russians wasn t easy either. so my point is not, because that would be foolish, to copy and paste the apollo mission on our social problems. the point is, if we begin with our challenges today, which i believe are the sustainable development goals, because every country in the world has signed up to them, these are the 17 sustainable development goals with 169 targets beneath them that the un led on, but actually, they came about through huge stakeholder engagement globally, these are the challenges, but if we just stop there, nothing will happen. just like if kennedy had just said, beat the russians , nothing would have happened. what was required was to transform beat the russians into a mission, going to the moon and back in one generation. a clear target. so my point is that if we just stop at these big global goals and don t transform them into moonshots that are inspirational, bol
people to understand. but, you know, beating the russians wasn t easy either. so my point is not, because that would be foolish, to copy and paste the apollo mission on our social problems. the point is, if we begin with our challenges today, which i believe are the sustainable development goals, because every country in the world has signed up to them, these are the 17 sustainable development goals with 169 targets beneath them that the un led on, but actually, they came about through huge stakeholder engagement globally, these are the challenges, but if we just stop there, nothing will happen. just like if kennedy had just said, beat the russians , nothing would have happened. what was required was to transform beat the russians into a mission going to the moon and back in one generation, a clear target. so my point is that if we just stop at these big global goals and don t transform them into moonshots that are inspirational, bold, but also design economic policy that really f
but actually, they came about through huge stakeholder engagement globally, these are the challenges, but if we just stop there, nothing will happen. just like if kennedy had just said, beat the russians , nothing would have happened. what was required was to transform beat the russians into a mission going to the moon and back in one generation, a clear target. so my point is that if we just stop at these big global goals and don t transform them into moonshots that are inspirational, bold, but also design economic policy that really fosters and also creates conditionality, so instead of giving out a lot of bailouts and recovery funds and loans and so on, subsidies, guarantees, to different sectors to do what nasa did, which was to carefully design its public private partnerships with multiple businesses. you are, sort of ideologically, a progressive who believes that foryears, perhaps, as a result of the legacies of ronald reagan, margaret thatcher and others, the power, the pos
with 169 targets beneath them that the un led on, but actually, they came about through huge stakeholder engagement globally, these are the challenges, but if we just stop there, nothing will happen. just like if kennedy had just said, beat the russians, nothing would have happened. what was required was to transform the beat the russians into a mission going to the moon and back in one generation, a clear target. so my point is that if we just stop at these big global goals and don t transform them into moonshots that are inspirational, bold, but also design economic policy that really fosters and also creates conditionality, so instead ofjust giving out a lot of bailouts and recovery funds and loans and so on, subsidies, guarantees to different sectors to do what nasa did, which was to carefully design its public private partnerships with multiple businesses. you are, sort of ideologically, a progressive who believes that foryears, perhaps, as a result of the legacies of ronald