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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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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
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"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."
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"We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world."
"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."
"I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs."
"The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development."
"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."
"We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse."
"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."
"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."
"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."
"What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now."
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