Maurice Strong Quotes

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Maurice Strong

Profession : Businessman

Birth : April 29, 1929

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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