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2005 Massey Lectures: Race Against Time - Stephen Lewis (paperback)
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“I have spent the last four years watching people die.”
With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 Massey Lectures.
Lewis’s determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider’s perspective on our ongoing failure to help.
Stephen Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heartbreaking, Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling desperately short of these goals.
In Race Against Time, Stephen Lewis probes the appalling gap between vision and current reality. But he also offers bracingly attainable solutions to help us avoid what will otherwise be a terrible stain on the record of human achievement in the twenty-first century.
“I would like to throttle . . . those who've waited so unendurably long to act, those who can find infinite resources for war but never sufficient resources to ameliorate the human condition.”
— Stephen Lewis
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Race Against Time, November 18, 2005
Review By:Manuel Erickson Though I haven't yet read his book, I heard two of Stephen's Massey lectures. I was enthralled by his oratory, shocked by his revelations and angered by the non-action of the so-called developed world. We in Canada might be "developed" tecnologically but our morality is still in the Dark Ages. Stephen's lectures and his book or CD should be heard or read by everyone, not just those of us who care. Stephen's work should be a mandatory high school subject in the field of social studies.
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