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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


#board #case #china #countries #decided

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


#amongst #businesses #concept #debated #development

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


#any #development #few #i #india

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

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.


Georges Cuvier


#cannot #covered #denied #did #form

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.


Luis Gutierrez


#forget #let us #me #much #recent

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.


Paul Hawken


#defy #first #forces #least #natural

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.


Andy Couturier


#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #japan

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.


Andy Couturier


#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #time






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