[gardeners] OT - Earth Summit
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 08:31:30 -0600
>The Earth Summit ended up in a deadlock due to simple question raised
> by the facilitator:
>
> "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the
>food shortage in the rest of the world?"
>
> The Africans did not know what "food" meant.
> The Western Europeans did not know what "shortage" meant.
> The Eastern Europeans did not know what "opinion" meant.
> Delegates from the Middle East did not know what "solution" meant.
> The South Americans did not know what "please" meant.
> The Asians did not know what "honest" meant.
> And the United States did not know what "the rest of the world"
>meant.