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

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Maurice Strong
Age: 86 †
Born: 1929
Born: April 29
Died: 2015
Died: November 28
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Maurice Frederick Strong
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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.
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Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders.
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We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
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A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
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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.
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Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.
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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.
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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
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Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.
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Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
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I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.
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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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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.
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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...
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If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.
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I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.
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So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.
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The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.
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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.
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Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally
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