CBC did - or BBC Canada as often called - a program entitled

Very few people today are not concerned about the environment. And that is a good thing, to a certain extent. jtb Without a healthy environment, the world poorer. But is there any danger of being overcome our worries? Can we have full confidence in the leaders of the environmental movement? Or objectives jtb could be hidden some?
In his speech at the start of the United Nations jtb Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992, said the man was acting as general-secretary jtb of the conference, Maurice Strong: "... current lifestyles and consumption Patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place result-conditioning, and suburban dream group - are not inchinn. "Maybe he is right. But who is Maurice Strong? And what kind of lifestyle of his own?
CBC did - or BBC Canada as often called - a program entitled "The Life and Times of Maurice Strong" in 1994. During the program, Strong said that his five or six houses worldwide. It did not, however, as far as my opinion, was 139,000 acre ranch in the United States as well. In any case, not the program makers thought, apparently, jtb that is strange to be millionaires travelator róthomhaltas preaching about the ordinary. If the middle jtb class is wealthier lifestyle sustainable, certainly jtb not like Maurice Strong lifestyle so!
Strong was born in Canada in 1929 and began working in the energy industry while still a teenager. Despite the fact that he started dealing with environmental issues in the seventies, it did not ever the biggest industry is making its carbon footprint. In addition to the various energy corporations he belonged to, he was appointed chief executive officer jtb of Petro-Canada - oil company is state owned - in 1976.
In addition jtb to the large load of money he earned from oil, Strong was not long before a large and powerful people from the world of international politics. When the young man was only eighteen years old, Strong was introduced to Noah Monod, treasurer of the United Nations, and he got his first job with that organization. Maurice remained jtb young in a Monod in New York for a while, jtb even. More importantly, he did know David Rockerfeller, the renowned banker and statesman are very much in favor of globalization and the grandson of the man who founded Standard Oil it.
All appeared to be a strong relationship between Maurice Strong and the Rockefeller family since then. At least, David Rockefeller admitted the journalist Elaine Dewar was "strong working Relationship" in question between him and Strong. But, as Dewar wrote a wonderful book titled Cloak of Green (whose theme is the type of relationship involved between environmental groups, governments and large corporations): "David Rockefeller's grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, created Had one of the world's greatest global businesses by Virtue of a Myriad of strong working relationships. "However, Strong career went from strength to strength after his meeting with David Rockefeller.
They are great friends David Rockerfeller and Maurice Strong is an endless list of key positions jtb are held by Strong to date - has worked in the business sector, with governments around the world and in the nonprofit sector, for example. Among the important appointment, he was chairman of the World Economic Forum (Davos); vice-president of WWF, the international fund for wildlife on it (1978-1981); a senior adviser in the period 1995-2005 for the former World Bank president, James Wolfensohn; and a sub-secretary of the United Nations (1985-1987 and 1989-1992). Was successful in all those positions to achieve despite not completed his secondary schooling in.
In Stockholm in 1972, when the United Nations held the first ever international conference focusing on the environment, Strong appointed her as secretary general. But his appointment has surprised some people. "Given his history in the energy Business, in Which he never seemed to have shown Interest in the environment except for something to be used This, why him?" As Dewar asked. jtb
But, of course, had powerful friends at Strong. At the time, he was a trustee of The Rockefeller Foundation jtb and the foundation that has money available for running the office in Stockholm. During the conference, Strong talked about global warming and other things that were a threat to the environment.
Twenty years after the Stockholm jtb conference, held UN Conference jtb on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro and a Strong was secretary general on her as well. And, of ndói