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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.

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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.

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I have a cow's valve in my heart.

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What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Businessman

Born: April 29th, 1929

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