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It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed
關(guān)注地球很重要。因為這是我們出生的地方，我們在地球的滋養(yǎng)下茁壯成長、受到指導(dǎo)教育、愈合我們的傷痛；
the planet, however, which we have abused to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of industrial exploitation.
而在過去200年里進行的工業(yè)開發(fā)中，我們嚴重濫用了地球資源。
This exploitation has reached such extremes
這樣的開發(fā)造成了如此極端的后果，
that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century.
以致目前將有數(shù)十萬物種于本世紀末之前滅絕。
In our times, human shrewdness has mastered the deep mysteries of the earth at a level far beyond the capacities of earlier peoples.
在我們這個時代，人類借由自身的精明與智慧早已解開了地球的奧秘，早期人類的能力水平自然遠不及我們。
We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys.
我們可以分裂山脈、干涸河水、水填山谷。
We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throwaway paper products.
我們可以將最茂密的樹林變?yōu)橐淮涡缘募堉破贰?/div>
We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains
我們可以分裂綠草如茵的西部平原，
and pour toxic chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind.
往土壤中灌入有毒的化學物品直至土壤壞死、沙化，被風吹散。
We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil.
我們可以用酸性氣體污染空氣，用污水污染河流，用石油污染海洋。
We can invent computers capable of processing ten million calculations per second.
我們可以發(fā)明能夠每秒進行一千萬次運算的電腦。
And why? To increase the volume and the speed with which we move natural resources through the consumer economy to the junk pile or the waste heap.
那么這是為什么呢？是為了增加我們將自然資源通過消費經(jīng)濟轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)橐欢讯牙蛷U品的數(shù)量和速度。
Our managerial skills are measured by the competence manifested in accelerating this process.
我們的管理技能是由在加速該轉(zhuǎn)變過程中展現(xiàn)的能力來衡量的。
If in these activities the physical features of the planet are damaged,
如果在這些生產(chǎn)開發(fā)活動中地球的地理特征遭到破壞，
if the environment is made inhospitable for a multitude of living species, then so be it.
如果地球的環(huán)境不再適合許多生命物種居住，那么就隨它去吧。
We are, supposedly, creating a technological wonder world.
我們應(yīng)該可以創(chuàng)造一個科技化的奇妙世界。
