It isn’t strictly true that one half of the world is rich and the other half is poor. It’s one third that is very rich and tow-thirds that are very poor. People in the rich countries don’t understand the great difference between them and those in the poorer countries. A very simple is that a dog or a cat in North America eats better than a child in the poorer countries. A fisherman is South America may be catching fish which is made into pet food, and his own children are not getting enough to eat for their bodies to grow properly. Although a lot of the world’s natural resources(资源) like oil come from these poorer countries, people in the richer countries are using about sixty times as much of these resources as people in Asia of Africa. And it’s the richer countries that deicide that kind of prices they are ready to pay for these resources. And the process the richer countries get for their own exports(出口), however, are always rising. So they are getting richer and richer and the poorer countries are getting poorer. 世界上一半是富人，另一半是穷人，这不完全正确。世界上三分之一的人非常富有，三分之二的人非常贫穷。 在富裕国家的人们并不了解他们与在贫穷国家的人们之间的巨大差异。一个显见的事是，狗或猫在北美吃的比在较贫穷国家的儿童吃的更好。一个南美渔民可能把捕到的鱼制成宠物食品，而他自己的孩子得不到足够的身体正常生长所需的东西吃。 虽然世界上的自然资源比如石油来自这些贫穷国家，在富裕国家的人享用的资源约为在亚洲，非洲人民的六十多倍。富裕的国家决定了他们愿意支付这些资源的价格。而这个过程中较富裕的国家由于他们出口得到的却总是在上升。因此，他们越来越富，穷国越来越穷。
