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Most consumer goods travel thousands of kilometers from the country of production to the country of consumption.
大部分消費品要千里迢迢地從產地運到消費地。
Since 1950, the volume of international trade has increased 20 times over.
自1950年至今 國際貿易總量增長了二十倍。
Ninety percent of trade goes by sea.
90%的貿易在海上進行。
500 million containers are transported every year,headed for the world's major hubs of consumption,such as Dubai.
每年多達五億的貨柜被運往主要的消費地區。例如迪拜。
Dubai is one of the biggest construction sites in the world a country where the impossible becomes possible.
迪拜是世界上最大的建筑工地之一,一個將不可能變成可能的國家。
Building artificial islands in the sea, for example.
例如在大海中建造人工島。
Dubai has few natural resources,but with the money from oil, it can bring millions of tons of material and people...
迪拜缺乏自然資源,但依靠石油賺的錢,它可以輸入數百萬噸的原料。
From all over the world.
和來自世界各地的人口。
It can build forests of skyscrapers, each one taller than the last,or even a ski slope in the middle of the desert.
它可以建造大廈叢林 一個比一個高,甚至在沙漠中建筑滑雪道。
Dubai has no farmland, but it can import food.
迪拜沒有農田,但可以進口食物。
Dubai has no water,but it can afford to expend immense amounts of energy...
迪拜沒有水源,但可以花費大量能源。
to desalinate seawater and build the highest skyscrapers in the world.
淡化海水并修建世界上最高的摩天大樓。
Dubai has endless sun but no solar panels.
迪拜陽光充沛但沒有太陽能電池板。
It is the city of more is more,where the wildest dreams become reality.
城市的需求永無止境,在這里最不著邊的夢想也能變成現實。
Dubai is a sort of culmination of the Western model,with its 800-meter high totem to total modernity...
迪拜是西方模式的頂峰,它的800米高的圖騰式建筑。
that never fails to amaze the world.
一直讓世界驚奇。
Excessive? Perhaps.
過分嗎？也許吧。
Dubai appears to have made its choice.
迪拜似乎已作出選擇。
It is like the new beacon for all the world's money.
它恰似全球財富的像征。
Nothing seems further removed from nature than Dubai,although nothing depends on nature more than Dubai.
沒有任何事物比迪拜更遠離大自然,但沒有任何事物比迪拜更依賴大自然。
The city merely follows the model of wealthy nations.
這城市只不過跟隨富裕國家的模式。
We haven't understood that we're depleting what nature provides.
我們還不明白我們正在耗盡自然資源。
