Maurice Strong Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?

  Maurice Strong

  Change, Country, Responsibility

  "Environmentalism: Ideology and Power". Book by Donald Gibson, 2002.

• The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

  Maurice Strong

  Real, Goal, Facts

• 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.

  Maurice Strong

  Running, Mean, Romance

• The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical principles in the task of ensuring a sustainable future for those who inhabit the Earth now and those who will follow us on the Earth.

  Maurice Strong

  God, Spiritual, Future

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

  Maurice Strong

  Generations, Earth, Stewardship

• I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

  Maurice Strong

  Organization, Environmental, Boards

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