Can You Guess Who Said This?

This well-known political figure gave a speech before a group of intellectuals and proclaimed that the world must function “as a family.” Can you guess who delivered it? The answer will probably surprise you. Some excerpts:

Almost 20 years ago the disagreeable task fell to me to warn the world – at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development – that our species was in danger of extinction….

It is more than time to pay attention to ecologists and scientists like Lester Brown [founder of the World Watch Institute], the world authority on that subject and on food production….

“Yesterday, when I was meditating on what has taken place in Tunisia and Egypt, my attention was caught by a recently published article from Paul Krugman, a renowned writer and serious economist, whose analyses of Roosevelt’s measures due to the Great Depression and the war reflected a special knowledge of the economy in the United States and the role played by the author of the New Deal. He is not a Marxist or a socialist. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. Look what he wrote on the food crisis, being perhaps the person with the most authority to do so.”

Who said this? Bill Clinton? Al Gore?

The speech was recently delivered by Fidel Castro in Cuba.