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

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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. "

" 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. "

" I have a cow's valve in my heart. "

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

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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. "

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

" My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn. "

" 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. "

" I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region. "

" Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "