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Maurice Strong Quotes
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. - Maurice Strong Quotes
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. - Maurice Strong Quotes
Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development. - Maurice Strong Quotes
Dont accept that you cant make a difference. Because if you cant make a difference, you wont make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway. - Maurice Strong Quotes
I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged. - Maurice Strong Quotes
I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously. - Maurice Strong Quotes
I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations. - Maurice Strong Quotes
I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world. - Maurice Strong Quotes
I do wish I could assist my many friends and colleagues in all the organizations I belong to, to remake the political and economic landscape. - Maurice Strong Quotes
I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs. - Maurice Strong Quotes
Ive developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following. - Maurice Strong Quotes
If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset. - Maurice Strong Quotes
In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost. - Maurice Strong Quotes
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. - Maurice Strong Quotes
It is perfectly proper for NGOs to seek corporate support. But it is also important that, in doing so, they not sell their soul for that support. - Maurice Strong Quotes
Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child. - Maurice Strong Quotes
Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who havent accepted it - and its recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses. - Maurice Strong Quotes
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities. - Maurice Strong Quotes
One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways. - Maurice Strong Quotes
So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up. - Maurice Strong Quotes
Soon youll be able to buy a hybrid four-wheel drive. They are not here in Canada yet, but they soon will be and they are available in Japan. - Maurice Strong Quotes
Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement. - Maurice Strong Quotes
The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development. - Maurice Strong Quotes
The latest scientific studies make it clear that some of the main, traditional sources of fish are in various states of depletion and are endangered. - Maurice Strong Quotes
The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them. - Maurice Strong Quotes
Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles. - Maurice Strong Quotes
We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world. - Maurice Strong Quotes
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. - Maurice Strong Quotes
We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance. - Maurice Strong Quotes
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits. - Maurice Strong Quotes
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