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.
Maurice StrongDon't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.
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 StrongThe 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 StrongWe owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice StrongThe Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical principles in the task of ensuring a sustainable future for those who inhabit the Earth now and those who will follow us on the Earth.
Maurice Strong