The World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet

Abstract

O ^ ne of Florida's specialities is Key Ume Pie; it is deliciously sweet and fluffy but not especially filling. Eating it in a Miami restaurant the night before the opening of the World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet in November 1991, Michelle Friedman and I hoped that it wouldn't be a metaphor for the congress itself lots of sweet sounding talk, but insubstantial; lacking the solid base of economic analysis necessary to address human needs. These fears proved groundless. The Congress was an extraordinarily exhilarating event. It brought together over a thousand women from 90 different countries who for four days engaged in hard headed analysis of the linkages between environmental degradation and the global economic crisis.