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Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
用于天气预报,甚至用于气候预报的计算机模型已经达到极限。
— Piers Corbyn 皮尔斯·科尔比恩
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更多好句 ↗One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.
关于气候变化的威胁,我们知道的一件事是,调整成本只会随着未得到解决的时间的延长而增长。
Jay Weatherill
州长韦德里
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量,但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技,我们可以在世界各地即时交流,但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。
Jonathan Sacks
乔纳森·萨克斯
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
在有限的世界里,物质消费的无限增长是不可能的。
E. F. Schumacher
舒马赫
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
我们滥用土地,因为我们认为它是属于我们的商品。当我们把土地看作是我们所属的一个社区时,我们可能会怀着爱和尊重开始使用它。
Aldo Leopold
奥尔多·利奥波德
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
信息技术的最大好处是它使人们能够做他们想做的事情。它让人们变得有创造力。它让人们更有效率。它让人们学习他们以前认为自己学不到的东西,所以从某种意义上说,这一切都是关于潜力的。
Steve Ballmer
史蒂夫·鲍尔默
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
上帝眷顾着这些树木,把它们从干旱、疾病、雪崩、一千次暴风雨和洪水中拯救出来。但他不能把他们从愚人手中救出来。
John Muir
约翰·穆尔