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.
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally
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.
The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.
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.
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.
Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders.
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.
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.
What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
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.
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.
A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.
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.
Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.
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.
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.
I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.
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.
My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.
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.