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Now this seems a bit strange. Economic growth seems to have really helped in the fight against poverty,
這看起來就有點奇怪了。經濟的增長看起來對解決貧窮問題幫助很大，
but it doesn't seem to be having much impact on trying to get to the Global Goals.
但它似乎并不能對我們達到全球目標有多大的幫助。
So what's going on? Well, I think there are two things.
那這是怎么回事呢？我覺得有兩個原因。
The first is that in a way, we're the victims of our own success.
其一是，在某種程度上，我們是我們取得的成功的受害者。
We've used up the easy wins from economic growth, and now we're moving on to harder problems.
我們把從經濟增長中獲得的表面上的好處都用光了，現在我們就得面臨更加困難的問題。
And also, we know that economic growth comes with costs as well as benefits.
其二，我們知道經濟增長帶來了好處，但同時也帶來了代價。
There are costs to the environment, costs from new health problems like obesity.
比如破壞環境的代價，還有比如產生了如肥胖等一些新健康問題的代價。
So that's the bad news. We're not going to get to the Global Goals just by getting richer.
這就是個壞消息了。所以如果想僅憑變得更富就到達全球目標是不可行的了。
So are the pessimists right? Well, maybe not.
那么那些悲觀主義者就是正確的嗎？其實，應該不是。
Because the Social Progress Index also has some very good news.
因為關于“社會進步指數”也有很多好消息。
Let me take you back to that regression line.
咱們再看一下那條回歸曲線。
So this is the average relationship between GDP and social progress, and this is what our last forecast was based on.
這是國內生產總值和社會進步之間的平均關系水平曲線，這也是我們上一個預測的基礎。
But as you saw already, there is actually lots of noise around this trend line.
但正如你們看到的，在這條曲線周圍其實還有很多不在線上的點。
