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" After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. "
Words
Environment
Earth
" 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. "
Future
Environment
Interesting
" 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. "
Seriously
Me
Little
" A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. "
Shift
Patterns
Less
" Don'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. "
Will
Accept
You
" I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously. "
Taken
Doom
I Am
" 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. "
Environmental
I Am
Earth
" 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. "
Peace
Commitment
I Am
" I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region. "
Role
Relationships
I Am
" I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world. "
Situation
Attention
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. "
Money
Farm
Fish
" I have a cow's valve in my heart. "
Valve
Heart
Cow
" I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn. "
Learn
Always
Criticism
" 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. "
Because
Within
Road
" Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. "
Force
Human
Political
" I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible. "
Believe
Always
Government
" I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following. "
Commitment
Environmental
Leadership
" I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met. "
View
Listen
Life
" 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. "
UN
Decision
Service
" Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child. "
Canada
Right
Trouble
" Most of my supporters are people who actually know me. I just continue to do the best I can and I don't bother to try and respond to every little bit because the best response is just to keep on doing what you think is right. "
People
You
Think
" My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people. "
People
Meet
Life
" My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement. "
Think
Opportunities
Help
" Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses. "
Number
Development
Sustainable
" 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. "
Past
Today
Progress
" 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. "
Thought
Environmental
Measure
" Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money. "
Rumors
Been
Never
" So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up. "
Individuals
Adds
Matters
" Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement. "
Great
Environmental
Leader
" 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. "
Need
Danger
Will
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