Maurice Strong

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

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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. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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

— Maurice Strong

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

— Maurice Strong

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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. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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

— Maurice Strong

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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. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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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. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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

— Maurice Strong

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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

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