The United Nations set up eight Millennium Development Goals in 2000, which are to expire this year. Here is the list, and verbatim: eradicate extreme hunger and poverty; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental stability; and develop a global partnership for development. Have MDGs been met? Well, here are the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals to be agreed at the United Nations General Assembly this weekend, also word for word: no poverty; no hunger; good health and wellbeing; quality education: gender equality; clean water and sanitation; affordable and clean energy; decent work and economic growth; industry, innovation, and infrastructure; reduce inequalities; sustainable cities and communities; responsible consumption and production; climate action; life below water (sustainable fishing and protecting marine life); life on land (protecting creatures on land, with an emphasis on reducing deforestation and desertification); peace, justice, and strong institutions; and partnerships for the goals. Presumably, SDGs are to be met by 2030. Will they be met, though? Judging by MDGs, SDGs will not be met, either. But the list will be extended at the United Nations General Assembly that year. Judging by the increase of the number of development goals between 2000 and 2015, there will be close to forty of them in 2030. At this rate, there will be nearly four-hundred development goals such as these by the end of the century. Now, that is progress!