Maurice Strong quotes - page 2

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. (Maurice Strong)
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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We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved.
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It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.
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Our concepts of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions.
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Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.
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Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.
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The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.
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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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My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.
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The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them. (Maurice Strong)
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.
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I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.
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I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.
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Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.
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If we don't change, our species will not survive... Frankly, 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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What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group's conclusion is 'no'. The rich countries won't do it. They won't change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?
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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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We are victims of ‘the struggle between ecosystems and egosystems'. It is the egos of people, governments, businesses that prevent solutions and generate a terrible lack of political will.
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