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
world matter add
So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.
fishing want way
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.
attitude responsibility law
It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.
acceptance differences making-a-difference
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.
please-me development agendas
What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
earth generations stewardship
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
commitment leader world
Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders.
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.