Kapil Sibal Quotes

The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on. If for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment to those excluded from the appropriation.

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.

Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.

Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.

The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.

The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.

Some take advantage of natural resources to put the capital in the hands of the few, while some use these natural resources to benefit the majority, as we do in Bolivia.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

Our traditional oil and gas philosophy does not have conservation as a crucial component, and we can ill afford to continue to spend billions of dollars which are not reflected in the improved human capital of our country.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?