Maurice Strong
Maurice Strong
Maurice Frederick Strong, PC, CC, OM, FRSC, FRS, FRAICwas a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth29 April 1929
CountryCanada
Maurice Strong quotes about
fate sea islands
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.
real goal earth
The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.
methodology socialist ideology
I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.
running mean romance
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
responsibility civilization climate-change
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?
government law play
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.
leader environmental important
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.
past needs management
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.
country interesting development
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.
population world world-population
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally
air class meat
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.
civilization saving may
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
numbers development accepted
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.
home air class
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.