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The Brandt Report: An Uncertain Trumpet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Sudhir Sen
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A psychologist has observed that when a man gets lost in a dense forest, he tends to run faster and faster. It seems this is what all of mankind is doing in today's crisis-ridden world. In recent years we have witnessed a great many commissions and conferences along with a flood of reports and documents, all purporting to solve the grave problems of our times. Yet it would be no exaggeration to say, borrowing a phrase from Churchill, they have been "less luminous than voluminous."

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Worldview , Volume 23 , Issue 7 , July 1980 , pp. 9 - 10
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1980

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* This idea will be discussed at length in a future Worldview article on the U.S. role in a hungry world, which will also review the recently published report of the President's Commission on World Hunger.