David Ormsby Gore on the ultimate tragedy

    Although David Ormsby Gore was thinking of political tragedy when he made the following remark, there is a tragedy worse than political tragedy, and worse than economic tragedy. It is ecological tragedy: global warming and loss of species.

It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

    For a brief biography of David Ormsby Gore, click here.