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We know that to wage

a nuclear war today, for example,

would be a form of suicide; or that to

pollute the air or the oceans

in order to achieve some short-term

benefit would be to destroy the

very basis for our survival.

As individuals and nations

are becoming increasingly

interdependent, we have no other

choice than to develop what

I call a sense of universal

responsibility.

舉例來說, 我們知道

今天發動一場核戰,

將會是一種自殺行為;

或只是為了獲取短暫的利益

而污染了空氣和海洋,

損毀了我們的生存基礎.

在每個人與每個國家

都更為相互倚賴的此時,

除了發展出一種

我稱之為寰宇責任感,

我們沒有別的選擇了.