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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

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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

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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. – Maurice Strong

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Ive 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. – Maurice Strong

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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. – Garrett Hardin

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More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries. – Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didnt even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago. – Gaylord Nelson

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I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadnt realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. – Vivienne Westwood

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