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

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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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"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

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"Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles."

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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."

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"We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved."

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"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."

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"Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities."

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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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"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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"In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost."

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"One of the things that I've 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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