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
available buy canada hybrid soon
Soon you'll be able to buy a hybrid four-wheel drive. They are not here in Canada yet, but they soon will be and they are available in Japan.
environmental people performance
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.
tendency
The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.
active explore main related
My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement.
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.
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.
methodology socialist ideology
I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.
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.
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.
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.
commitment leader world
Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders.
taken views wings
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.
world save-the-world saved
We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved.