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Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

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Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

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I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

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Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

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The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.

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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

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Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

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This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

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The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: July 26th, 1950

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