Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Maurice Strong, 1992 UN Conference

"...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable. A shift is necessary. which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations..." 1

Maurice Strong , opening speech at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development

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