Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield on… - Maurice Strong
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield on…
- Maurice Strong
We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved. - Maurice Strong
We're either going to save the world or no one will be saved.
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance acc… - Maurice Strong
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance acc…
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally - Maurice Strong
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about? - Maurice Strong
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?
The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments. - Maurice Strong
The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.
Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decid… - Maurice Strong
Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decid…
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that curre… - Maurice Strong
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that curre…
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. - Maurice Strong
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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