Where on Earth Are We Going? Paperback by Maurice Strong

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2001-02-27)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 432 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780676973648
• Item Weight: 569.84 grams
• Dimensions: 9.0 x 5.98 x 1.07 cm

A surprising call to action from a key business and environmental player at the dawn of the millenium.

From the Report to the Shareholders, Earth Inc., dated January 1, 2030 that begins Where on Earth Are We Going?: world hunger, ecological and environmental disaster, global warming, massive shifts in weather systems, the re-emergence of diseases long thought controlled, and political turmoil in a world where a barrel of water is more expensive than a barrel of oil.

Hard-headed, practical, impassioned, this is a call to action by a key business and environmental leader at the end of the twentieth century that cannot be ignored. To explain how he came by his beliefs, Maurice Strong chronicles his poverty-stricken beginnings as a child in the prairies during the Depression to his appointment as President of Power Corporation at 29, his appointment as Undersecretary of the United Nations at 40, and on the domestic front, as Chairman of Ontario Hydro.

About the Author

Maurice Strong is currently Undersecretary-General of the UN and Senior Advisor to the World Bank.  He is also a Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the UN and Chairman of The Earth Council. He has been the UN's Secretary of the Environment, and was Secretary General and Chairman of the UN Rio Summit on the Future of the Planet in 1991. He also heads his own environmental business interests. He lives in Ontario and commutes to Washington.