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The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.
Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.
We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.
We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved.
Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.
What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.
I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.
I have a cow's valve in my heart.
I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.
I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.
I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.
Most of my supporters are people who actually know me. I just continue to do the best I can and I don't bother to try and respond to every little bit because the best response is just to keep on doing what you think is right.
My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.
My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement.
Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.
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