Setting 200 goals is an absurd approach that allows leaders to claim moral virtue without the responsibility of doing difficult work.

“the upside of that from a political perspective is that you get all the moral cachet of being concerned about everything that you would be concerned about if you were good without any of the responsibility for actually doing any of the difficult work”

The current 169 sustainable development goals are too numerous, making them an ineffective approach to global prioritization.

“there's something almost comical about the total effect of that because we're we're promising everything to everyone all the time but of course we're actually not delivering on this”