| 1 | "We stopped the desert," he says, "and everything changed. | |
| 2 | We human urgently call for a new civilization, which can be regarded as a thorough value revolutionary in the real sense. | |
| 3 | And all this against three decades of momentous social, political and economic change. | |
| 4 | That' s why I' ve pledged substantial increases in our foreign assistance - not simply to help people scrape by, but to unleash transformational change. | |
| 5 | Tiny societies of pearl divers, coastal merchants, and nomadic Bedouin were transformed in the last half of the 20th century by oil and natural-gas wealth. |