Maurice F. Strong Quotes

• Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

  Maurice F. Strong

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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.

  Maurice F. Strong

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Environmental, Sustainability, Global, Earth

• What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody’s agenda now.

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• 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.

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• We’re either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved.

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

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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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• 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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• 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 tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

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• 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.

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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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• So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Maurice F. Strong (30)

Birth:	29th April, 1929
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Businessman, Entrepreneur

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