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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. "
Maurice Strong
Civilization
Way
World
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" I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible. "
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" What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. "
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" So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up. "
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Never
Environment
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Little
" 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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" 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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" A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. "
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Less
" 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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Environmental
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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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Canada
Right
Trouble
" 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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" 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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" 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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" Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. "
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Human
Political
" 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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Need
" 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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" 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. "
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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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" We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. "
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" We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved. "
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Either
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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