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… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible. — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
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… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
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… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
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… — Maurice Strong Copy Share
Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn. — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
