2009年3月17日 星期二

1-5.6.1

We Can Work Together to Solve Environmental Problems

Making the shift to more sustainable societies and economies involves building what sociologists call social capital. This involves getting people with different views and values to talk and listen to one another, find common ground based on understanding and trust, and work together to solve environmental and other problems. This means nurturing openness, communication, cooperation, and hope and discouraging close mindedness, polarization, confrontation, and fear.

1.3.2.1

Our Ecological Footprints Are Growing

Supplying people with renewable resources and dealing with the resulting wastes and pollution can have a large environmental impact. We can think of it as an ecological footprint-the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply the people in a particular country or area with renewable resources and to absorb and recycle the wastes and pollution produced by resource use. The per capita ecological footprint is the average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area.

我們的生態足跡發展

供應人與可再生資源和處理產生的廢物與汙染構成一個很大的環境影響,我們可以把它看做為一個生態足跡。生物生產所需的土地和水供應人在一個特定的國家或區域得可再生資源,吸收並且回收資源和汙染導致的廢物。人均生態足跡是一個個體的平均生態足跡在一個特定的國家或區域。

1-1.1

The environment is everything around us.

環境在我們身旁和我們息息相關。