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“Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.”

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Maurice Strong

Maurice Strong was a Canadian diplomat, environmentalist, and businessman. Born on April 29, 1929, in Alberta, Canada, he passed away on November 27, 2015. Strong is renowned for his contributions to sustainable development and environmental policy, serving as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 and later as the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. more

“Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice age approach for some time without realizing what we are seeing... Scientists predict that it will cause great snows which the world has not seen since the last ice age thousands of years ago.”

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Author:Betty Friedan

“If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.”

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Author:Amory Lovins

“We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.”

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Author:Russell E. Train

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