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.
Maurice StrongThe 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.
Maurice StrongWe may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
Maurice StrongThe 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