“The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.”
Author details
Related authors
Other Bill Bryson Quotes
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
Bill Bryson 
74% of people like this quote
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
Bill Bryson
56% of people like this quote
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
Bill Bryson
52% of people like this quote