1-5.7.3

The Tennessee River flowing through the city’s industrial
center bubbled with toxic waste. People and industries
fled the downtown area and left a wasteland of
abandoned and polluting factories, boarded-up buildings,
high unemployment, and crime.

田納西流域的泡狀物與有毒廢料流經城市的工業中心。人民和產業逃離市區，並留下了一個廢棄的被遺棄的，並受到嚴重污染的工廠，用木板蓋覆的房子， 高失業率，和犯罪。

1-3.2.4

According toWilliam Rees and MathisWackernagel,
the developers of the ecological footprint concept, it
would take the land area of about five more planet earths
for the rest of the world to reach current U.S. levels of
consumption with existing technology. Put another
way, if everyone consumed as much as the average
American does today, the earth’s natural capital could
support only about 1.3 billion people—not today’s
6.7 billion. In other words, we are living unsustainably
by depleting and degrading some of the earth’s irreplaceable
natural capital and the natural renewable income
it provides as our ecological footprints grow and
spread across the earth’s surface (Concept 1-3). For more
on this subject see the Guest Essay by Michael Cain at
ThomsonNOW™. See the Case Study that follows about
the growing ecological footprint of China.



據toWilliam里斯和MathisWackernagel ， 開發商的生態足跡的概念，它將採取土地面積約5行星地球對世界其他地區的達到目前美國的水平消費與現有的技術。換句話說這樣，如果每個人消耗一樣平均美國沒有今天，地球的自然資本可只支持大約13億人，而不是今天的 67億美元。換句話說，我們正生活難以承受由臭氧和有辱人格的一些地球的不可替代的自然資本和自然再生收入它提供了我們的生態足跡增長和遍布地球表面欲了解更多關於這個問題的看到客戶徵文由Michael該隱在 ThomsonNOW ™ 。見案例研究如下約不斷增長的生態足跡中。 遍布地球表面

1-1.1

As a result, we are part of and not
apart from the rest of nature.


因此，我們的一部分與大自然息息相關。