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Mission Sustainable Development
Nearly 60 years ago, President John F. Kennedy put the United States on a mission to the future by proclaiming that it would land a man on the moon within a decade.
Our generation’s moonshot mission is sustainable development on Earth.
- Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Project Syndicate
NEW YORK – Sixty years ago next May, President John F. Kennedy put the United States on a mission to the future.
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
No single space project in this period will…