The Trade-Off

Abstract

I have described the gulfs in prosperity between the developed and developing countries, and between the rich and poor within the Third World as obscenities. We could, however, be in process of creating a third offence to human decency which would be almost as obscene. That would be if the two sides in the current quarrel between the two worlds allowed it to escalate so much that they failed to find the necessary compromise, and thus allowed the world to slither into a running, pseudo-ideological struggle in which everyone would suffer but the poor would suffer most of all.