Maurice Strong Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Yield, Community

• 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

• Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.

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  Country, Interesting, India

• 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.

  Maurice Strong

  Strong, Commitment, People

• 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.

  Maurice Strong

  Believe, Use, Problem

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