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除非我们可以给出一个在政治上富有吸引力的低碳经济方案，否则没有人会为了别人的问题而采取行动。
Fear of the distant horrors of climate change isn't enough to drive anything more than just political talk and hand-wringing
中国正在尝试利用水交易来解决保证供应公平和避免生态破坏这个双重问题。
China approaches water trading with the twin problems of ensuring equity of supply and avoiding ecological damage
早在40年前，新加坡领导人就意识到一个社会在污染环境中的生活成本要比在清洁环境中高得多。中国也能认识到这一点吗？
Singapore’s leaders realised 40 years ago that it is much more expensive for a society to live in a polluted environment than a clean one
人类在过去100中的过度捕捞导致了鳕鱼、鲨鱼、金枪鱼和箭鱼等大型鱼类数目急剧减少。
A century of overfishing by humans has seen a vast reduction in the numbers of large fish, such as cod, sharks, tuna and swordfish
在过去的五年，洪水和暴风等自然灾害已造成中国近5000万人流离失所。
Natural hazards like floods and storms have forced almost 50 million people in China from their homes over past five years
印度农业遭遇危机，农民自杀事件接连发生，兰詹娜•帕迪的新作《遗孀》讲述了这一背景下妇女的艰难处境。
Written against the backdrop of continuing suicides among Indian farmers, a new book describes the impact of the country’s agricultural crisis on women
短评 in brief
如果人类不能消除对生态和地球系统的无知，世界将会怎样？卡斯帕•亨德森认为，弗雷德•古特尔的《物种的命运》一书对最坏的情形进行了令人惊心的概述。
The Fate of the Species by Fred Guterl is a bracing overview of the worst that can happen if humans do not overcome their ecological and Earth-systems illiteracy, writes Caspar Henderson.
浪费水——城市模式
嗯，承认浪费不是不存在的。
我曾经和两个外出务工人员同住在一个公寓，他们是朝鲜族，在一家韩国汽车制造厂当翻译。
他们观察极其整洁的韩国香皂，“挣扎”着每天冲十分钟的澡，而且还做足疗和洗面。
很疯狂对不对？
Wasting water - urban style.
Hm, agreed that waste is certainly not absent.
I used to live in a flat with two migrant workers who - being Korean Ethnic Minority - worked as translators for a Korean car manufacturer.
They watched squeaky clean Korean soaps, "Struggle" and took two 10 minute long showers a day, along with foot spas and long face washes.
Crazy, no?