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We're not just outsourcing jobs to China and India. We're outsourcing pollution. So says a new analysis of global trade published in the March 1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
我們不光通過外包的形式把工作崗位輸出到中國和印度，我們同時也把污染物送給了他們。一項發(fā)表在三月一日的《國家科學(xué)院期刊》的國際貿(mào)易分析的文章如是說。
According to scientists at the Carnegie Institution in Palo Alto, The analysis reveals that more than 2.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide are "used" by individual Americans per year but emitted elsewhere.
位于帕羅阿多的卡內(nèi)基研究院的科學(xué)家表示，每年經(jīng)由美國人消耗但是排入到其他地方的二氧化碳超過了2.5噸。
From my own travels I can confirm this. I’ve seen a good chunk of coal shoveled into Chinese power plants, generating electricity for the factories that crank out trinkets, clothes and gadgets destined for the U.S.
看看我自己的旅行記錄，還確實如此。我知道，中國的發(fā)電站大量采用煤礦，為那些小商品廠、服裝廠和零售品廠商發(fā)電，而這些商家的貨物不少都進(jìn)入了美國人的日常生活當(dāng)中。
It's even worse in theoretically green Europe: each French, German and Spanish person consumes nearly four metric tons of CO2 per year that’s released elsewhere. It gives new meaning to the E.U.'s vaunted emissions trading scheme.
從理論上看，類似情況在所謂的“綠色歐洲”尤為顯著：每位德國、法國和西班牙公民一年消費所產(chǎn)生的二氧化碳有4噸排入至其他地區(qū)。歐盟所提出的所謂排放貿(mào)易規(guī)劃，這么看來只是看上去很美罷了。
This new analysis reveals that the U.S. imports some 435 million tons of embedded CO2 emissions from China alone in 2004. And previous analyses have shown that as much as one-third of Chinese emissions can be traced back to Europe or the U.S. The Middle Kingdom may now be the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases but part of the blame for that lies with us.
這項分析還表明，2004年美國從中國進(jìn)口了4.35億噸溫室氣體附加型產(chǎn)品。先前的調(diào)查研究還表明，中國三分之一的碳排放量可以從歐美兩地找到蹤跡和依據(jù)。來自東方的國家可能是目前世界上最大的碳排放國，但是毫無疑問，我們也有一定責(zé)任。
