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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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" 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. "

Maurice Strong

Past

Today

Progress

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

" 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. "

Maurice Strong

Seriously

Little

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Maurice Strong

Will

You

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved. "

" 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. "

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

" A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. "

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

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

" 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. "

Maurice Strong

Decision

Service

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "