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

— Maurice Strong

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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. ↗

— 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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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. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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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. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#exacerbate #farm #fish #fishing #fleets

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. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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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. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates? ↗

— David Suzuki

#climb #continue #costs #enable #evolution

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#cannot #current #current form #democratic #democratic societies

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#dies #fails #knowledge #lead #life