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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. "
Maurice Strong
Meeting
Development
India
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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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" 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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" My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people. "
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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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" So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up. "
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" What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. "
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" I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously. "
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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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" 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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" Most of my supporters are people who actually know me. I just continue to do the best I can and I don't bother to try and respond to every little bit because the best response is just to keep on doing what you think is right. "
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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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" The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them. "
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" My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement. "
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" 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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I Am
" 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're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved. "
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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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" 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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" We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. "
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" 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. "
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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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