september10

The growth in population is very

much bound up with poverty, and in

turn poverty plunders the earth. When

human groups are dying of hunger,

they eat everything, grass, insects,

everything. They cut down the trees.

They leave the land dry and bare. All

other concerns vanish. That’s why in

the next thirty years the problems we

call ‘environmental’ will be

the hardest that humanity

has to face.

人口的增加與貧窮息息相關,

而貧窮早晚會掠奪地球.

當人類因飢餓而面臨滅絕時會吞噬一切,

草地, 昆蟲, 所有東西.

他們砍樹. 他們任土地枯竭.

其他的考量全沒了.

這就是為什麼, 在未來三十年中

‘大環境’ 將會是人類有史以來

最難面對的問題.