报告称大自然2016年的资源“预算”已用完 [美国媒体]

Nature's 2016 resource 'budget' already used up,report says

报告称大自然2016年的资源“预算”已用完



Paris (AFP) - In just over seven months, humanity hasused up a full year's allotment of natural resources such as water, food andclean air -- the quickest rate yet, according to a new report.

巴黎（法新社）——根据一份最新的报道，在仅仅七个多月的时间里，人类已经用完了一整年自然资源的配额，比如水、食物和洁净的空气。这是有史以来最快的速度。

The point of "overshoot" will officially bereached on Monday, said environmental group Global Footprint Network -- fivedays earlier than last year.

环保组织 Global Footprint Network表示，周一就达到“过度”的临界点，比去年早了五天。

"We continue to grow our ecological debt,"said Pascal Canfin of green group WWF, reacting to the annual update.

作为对年度环境数据的回应，环保组织WWF的Pascal Canfin说到：“我们欠大自然的账单会不断增加。”

"From Monday August 8, we will be living oncredit because in eight months we would have consumed the natural capital thatour planet can renew in a year."

从8月8日周一开始，我们就活在透支的状态，因为在八个月里我们用完了地球一年才能再生的自然资源。

The gloomy milestone is marked every year on what isknown as Earth Overshoot Day.

这个悲伤的里程碑般的日子被定义为每年的“地球超支日”。

In 1993, the day fell on October 21, in 2003 onSeptember 22 and last year on August 13.

1993年“地球超支日”是10月21日，2003年是9月22日，而去年是8月13日。

In 1961, according to the network, humankind used onlyabout three-quarters of Earth's annual resource allotment. By the 1970s, economicand population growth sent Earth into annual overshoot.

根据Global Footprint Network所说，1961年，人类一年只用了四分之三的自然资源配额。而到了20世纪70年代，经济和人口增长把地球推到了年度的自然资源超支。

"This is possible because we emit more carbondioxide into the atmosphere than our oceans and forests can absorb, and wedeplete fisheries and harvest forests more quickly than they can reproduce andregrow," the network said in a statement.

Global Footprint Network在一份声明中说到：“这是有可能的，因为我们向大气中排放更多的二氧化碳，而海洋和森林无法全部吸收，我们消耗渔牧业所得的速度也超过了它们生产繁殖的速度。”

To  calculatethe date for Earth Overshoot Day, the group crunches UN data on thousands ofeconomic sectors such as fisheries, forestry, transport and energy production.

为了计算出地球超支日的具体日期，联合国数据组研究了成千上万的数据，比如渔业、林业、交通和能源生产。

Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions, it said, arenow the fastest-growing contributor to ecological overshoot, making up 60percent of humanity's demands on nature .

数据组说，全球变暖的温室气体排放是导致生态超载的最快成长因素，构成了人类对自然需求的60%。

According to the UN, the number of people on Earth isforecast to grow from 7.3 billion today to 11.2 billion by the end of thecentury -- piling further pressure on our planet and its finite resources.

据联合国估计，到本世纪末，地球上的人类会从目前的73亿增长到112亿，这将给地球及其有限的资源带来更大的压力。


AlanL
I don't think it is something we can completelydismiss as the paranoid delusions of econuts spurred by solar/wind lobbypropaganda. I would like however， more information.
Sure, if we burn more carbon than can be absorbed intocarbon sinks, the excess drifts around in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide andmethane. This in turn leads to warming by means of the "greenhouseeffect" .This is bad, because our sister planet, Venus, has an atmospherecomposed mostly of carbon dioxide.
Now some would have us believe our activity could leadEarth to the same fate. But will it? One crucial piece of information ismissing from all these reports I read. If we were to take all the coal, oil,natural gas etc. that is available on the Earth and burn all of it, howconcentrated will carbon molecules in the atmosphere become? If it's onlyenough to raise the planet a few degrees, then is it really problem? Bydefinition the concentration will drop every year after that since there'snothing left to combust and there will be an "undershoot" every year.

我并不认为这是我们可以完全忽视等同于偏执狂们吹嘘太阳能/风能游说宣传的妄想，反而我想了解更多信息。
当然，如果我们排放的碳比能被碳汇吸收的更多，那么多余的部分就会漂浮在大气层，比如二氧化碳和甲烷。这反过来会导致引起全球变暖的温室效应。这很不好，因为我们的姐妹行星金星的大气层基本由二氧化碳构成。
现在有些人想让我们相信，我们的行为会导致地球走向一样的命运。但真的会吗？我看过的所有报告里都遗漏了一个关键的信息。如果我们把地球上所有能获得的煤、油、天然气等等都烧光，那么大气里的碳分子密度会有多高呢？如果只够让地球温度升高一点点，那么这会是真的问题吗？显然密度会逐年降低，因为已经没有东西可以燃烧了。甚至每年还会“未达目标”。

HowardN
And yet the only "solution" is spendingmoney to reduce CO2 emissions. How about efforts to limit population growth?Wouldn't that also help alleviate other problems like starvation, lack ofpotable water, etc?

到目前为止，唯一的“解决办法”就是花钱减少CO2排放。为什么不做点努力限制人口增长呢？这不也能减轻其他类似饥荒、缺乏饮用水等问题吗？

Lynn
So in just a few more years we will use up a year'sworth by the middle of January.

如此说来，再过几年，我们会在一月中旬就用完一年的自然资源配额。

Shruco
For heaven's sake -- the photo accompanying the article,captioned that greenhouse gases are killing us, shows what appears to be anuclear power plant. If so, then the "gas" you see emerging is 100%water vapor. Smh

天哪，本文标注“温室气体正在残杀我们”的配图，看起来像是一个核电站。如果真是这样，那你看到的“气体”100%是水蒸气而已。摇头叹气~

Timothy
More Liberal tripe. Quick, everyone run around theroom, flap your arms, and shout "The sky is falling!"

废话。快，大家都绕着房间奔走，拍着手臂大喊：“天要塌了！”

GRJ
Gee, so if we stop eating and breathing until Jan. 1,every thing will be OK?
What a bunch of hooey.

哎呀，如果我不吃不喝不呼吸直到明年1月1日，所有东西会变好吗？
什么鬼。