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Maurice Strong's Profile

Brief about Maurice Strong: By info that we know Maurice Strong was born at 1929-04-29. And also Maurice Strong is Canadian Businessman.

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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.

Tags: Life, Try, Used

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.

Tags: Car, High, Road

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.

Tags: Best, Keep, Try

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.

Tags: Accepted, Known, Number

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.

Tags: Index, Thought, Ways

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.

Tags: Great, Leader, Whole

Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.

Tags: Car, Doubt, Put

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.

Tags: Difference, Greater, Times

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.

Tags: Condition, Problems, Suddenly

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

Tags: May, Point, Saving

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.

Tags: After, Environmental, Words

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

Tags: Child, Point, Trouble

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

Tags: Agenda, Almost, Everybody

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.

Tags: Accept, Put, Won

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.

Tags: Money, Problem, Rather

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

Tags: Less, Necessary, Toward

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

Tags: Convinced, Seriously, Taken

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

Tags: Criticism, Learn, Respect

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Tags: Human, Political, Powerful

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

Tags: Life, Purpose, Social
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