After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

  • -- Maurice F. Strong 莫里斯F.斯特朗

毕竟,可持续发展意味着像公司一样经营全球环境公司——地球公司:拥有折旧、摊销和维护账户。换句话说,保持资产的完整性,而不是破坏你的自然资本。

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The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

其理念是建立全球标准。旅行如此之多,如果你只是有一个地区标准,它可能最终不得不改变。

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

事实是,正如我们大多数人所知,全球变暖是真实存在的,而人类是主要的贡献者,主要是因为我们浪费化石燃料。

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

没有人看到明显的,没有人观察普通的。一平方码土地上的奇迹比教堂里所有的寓言都要多。

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

并非所有的一切都是厄运和悲观。我们开始了解自然世界,并对生命——所有生命——产生敬畏之情。

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

未来是绿色能源、可持续发展、可再生能源。

Driving in your world seems a bit dangerous.

在你的世界里开车似乎有点危险。

We must return to nature and nature's god.

我们必须回归自然,回归自然的上帝。