Klaus Topfer Quotes

#1. It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.

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#2. The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.

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#3. Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

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#4. It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and biodiversity - for every product and service. There can be no free lunch on the environment.

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#5. We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit

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#6. We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

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#7. Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.

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