A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
可持续性
Sustainability
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。
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
我相信,面对普遍的相互依赖,国家主权将会萎缩。
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
但现在,可持续性是一个政治范畴,人们越来越难以严肃地思考这个问题。可持续发展已成为一种点缀。
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.
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。