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Maurice Strong Biography

Maurice Frederick Strong, PC, CC, OM, FRSC, FRAIC (April 29, 1929 – November 27, 2015) was a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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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.

Believe, Global, Problem, Problems, Use

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

Agendas, Development, Please Me, Pleases, Sustainable

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.

Running, Mean, Romance, Inc, Earth, Undermining

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

Belief, Life, Needs, People, Purpose

Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable. . .

Class, Eugenics, Air, Large, Current, Foods

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

Environmental, Patterns, Lifestyle, Shift, Lifestyles

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.

Commitment, Encouraged, People, Security, Strong

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

Citizen, Country, Energy, Life, Lifetime, Months

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

Awareness, Commitment, Field, Hybrids, Leadership, Research And Development

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 rightwing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.

Criticisms, Extreme, Taken, Views, Wings

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Exaggerated, Greatly, Money, Rumor, Wealth

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.

Car, Cells, Corporation, Cost, Fuel, Japan

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.

Law, Play, World Government, Entrenched, Principle, Careful

I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.

Announce, Decision, Program, Projects, Turner

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Earth, Future, Generations, Owe, Stewardship

One of the things that Ive 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.

Environmental, Like, Measure, People, Way

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.

Affluence, Fate, Island, Islands, Sea, Stake

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.

Environmental, Important, Influence, Leader, Movement, Reduced

Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders.

Commitment, Leader, Leaders, Occupy, World

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

Doom, Fate, Prophet, Seriously, Taken

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