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" We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance. "
Maurice Strong
Path
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Down
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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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" 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 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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I Am
" 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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You
Think
" 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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" 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
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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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Measure
" So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up. "
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" 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. "
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Decision
Service
" 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
Leadership
" 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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Way
World
" I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn. "
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Learn
Always
Criticism
" Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. "
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Force
Human
Political
" 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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Attention
World
" 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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Will
" 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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Future
Environment
Interesting
" 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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Management
Need
" What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. "
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Development
Almost
Agenda
" 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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Environmental
I Am
Earth
" 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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Today
Progress
" 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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India
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Future Generations
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Heart
Cow
" Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money. "
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Rumors
Been
Never
" 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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