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.

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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.

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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.

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I've 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.

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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.

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Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

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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.

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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.

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Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse Isn't it our responsibility to bring about

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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.

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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.

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I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

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One of the things that I've 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.

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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

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A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

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We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

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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.

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Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

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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.

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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.

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We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

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