[gavinlit]

A little something from fifty seven years ago. Given the current figures regarding proportion of worlds resources consumed I'd say it's been a fairly succesfull half century. I have to point out that for the most part, our country has behaved no differently - just that it's harder to find good quotes from our side of the pond.

"We have 50 per cent of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. In this situation, our real job in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which permit us to maintain this position of disparity. To do so, we have to dispense with all sentimentality . . . we should cease thinking about human rights, the raising of living standards and democratisation."
George Kennan, US Cold War planner, 1948