Rorty tells us that, "If there is a happy solution to the dilemma created by the need of very poor Brazilians to find work and the need of the rest of us for the oxygen produced by the Amazonian rain forest, it is going to result of some as yet unimagined bureaucratic-technological initiative, not of a revolution in values. The slow crabwise movement is not going to speed up thanks to a change in philosophical outlook."

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Rorty is stating that the solution to the dilemma will not come from a change in philosophical outlook, but rather from a bureaucratic-technological initiative that has not yet been imagined. Therefore, the slow crabwise movement towards a solution will not speed up due to a change in values.

Rorty Tells Us That, "If There Is a Happy Solution