Reply #1: Bishop Tutu is a very good and a very wise man...

[TygrBright]

...but I think he's being a little on the naively optimistic side with this bit:

>>I think people are beginning to realize that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think that you can have a stable and secure world," he said<<

The 'people' who realize that have known it for a very long time. It's nothing new to us. The others will never figure it out short of a personal, intimate, and shattering encounter with reality, and maybe not even then.

I wish I lived in a world that was full of the people Bishop Tutu thinks the world is full of.

wistfully,
Bright