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Our mode of development has not fulfilled its promises.
我們的發(fā)展模式并未實現(xiàn)當(dāng)初的承諾。
In 50 years, the gap between rich and poor has grown wider than ever.
五十年來 貧富懸殊從未如此嚴重。
Today, half the world's wealth is in the hands of the richest two percent of the population.
今天全球一半財富掌握在占人口比例2％的富豪手上。
Can such disparities be maintained?
這種不對稱還能維持嗎？。
They're the cause of population movements whose scale we have yet to fully realize.
它們是人口遷徙的原因。其規(guī)模我們尚未知曉。
The city of Lagos had a population of 700,000 in 1960.
拉哥斯的人口在1960年只有七十萬。
That will rise to 16 million by 2025.
到2025年將增至一千六百萬。
Lagos is one of the fastest-growing megalopolises in the world.
拉哥斯是成長最快的特大城市之一。
The new arrivals are mostly farmers forced off the land for economic or demographic reasons,or because of diminishing resources.
新人口中多數(shù)是因經(jīng)濟或人口問題,或資源減少而背井離鄉(xiāng)的農(nóng)民。
This is a radically new type of urban growth,driven by the urge to survive rather than to prosper.
這是完全新型的城市增長模式,移民不為致富,只求生存。
Every week, over a million people swell the populations of the world's cities.
每周全球共有一百多萬人,涌入各大城市。
One human being in six now lives in a precarious, unhealthy, overpopulated environment.
目前每六人有一人住在不安全,不健康或人口密集的環(huán)境。
without access to daily necessities such as water, sanitation or electricity.
缺乏日常生活用品,比如水、衛(wèi)生設(shè)施和電力。
Hunger is spreading once more.
饑荒再次蔓延。
