Ecological Footprints · 生态足迹
| English | 中文 | Pinyin · 拼音 |
|---|---|---|
| ecological footprint/ˌekəˈlɒdʒɪkl ˈfʊtprɪnt/ | 生态足迹 | shēng tài zú jì |
| biocapacity/ˌbaɪəʊkəˈpæsɪti/ | 生物承载力 | shēng wù chéng zài lì |
Measuring our demand
- Everything we use — food, energy, homes, gadgets — takes resources from Earth.
- Some people and countries use far more than others.
- How do we measure and compare this demand?
- The answer is the ecological footprint.
度量我们的需求
- 我们使用的一切——食物、能量、住房、小玩意——都从地球取用资源。
- 有些人和国家用的比其他人多得多。
- 我们如何度量和比较这种需求?
- 答案是生态足迹。
What a footprint is
- An ecological footprint 生态足迹 is the area of land and water a person or country needs.
- It covers the resources they use and the waste they produce.
- A big footprint means a heavy demand on the planet.
- Wealthy, high-consumption lifestyles have the largest footprints.
什么是足迹
- 一个生态足迹(ecological footprint)是一个人或国家所需的土地和水的面积。
- 它涵盖他们使用的资源和他们产生的废物。
- 大的足迹意味着对地球沉重的需求。
- 富裕、高消费的生活方式有最大的足迹。
An ecological footprint measures… · 一个生态足迹衡量……
An ecological footprint is the area of land and water needed to supply a person's resources and absorb their waste. · 生态足迹是供应一个人的资源、吸收他们的废物所需的土地和水的面积。
What makes it bigger
- Using lots of energy, especially from fossil fuels, raises the footprint.
- Eating lots of meat, which is resource-heavy, raises it too.
- Driving everywhere and buying many goods add more.
- The more we consume, the larger our footprint grows.
什么让它更大
- 用大量的能量,尤其是来自化石燃料的,提高足迹。
- 吃大量资源密集的肉,也提高它。
- 到处驾驶、买许多商品,增加更多。
- 我们消费得越多,足迹长得越大。
Which lifestyle tends to have the largest ecological footprint? · 哪种生活方式往往有最大的生态足迹?
Using lots of energy, meat, and cars gives a large footprint; simple, low-resource living lowers it. · 用大量的能量、肉和汽车给出大的足迹;简单、低资源的生活降低它。
When humanity uses resources faster than Earth can renew them, we ____ Earth's capacity. · 当人类使用资源的速度快于地球能再生它们时,我们____地球的容纳能力。
When our total footprint exceeds Earth's biocapacity, we overshoot — using more than the planet can sustain. · 当我们的总足迹超过地球的生物承载力时,我们超出——使用超过地球能维持的。
Living within Earth's limits
- Earth has a limited capacity to supply resources — its biocapacity 生物承载力.
- Humanity's total footprint now overshoots what Earth can renew.
- Using less energy, less meat, and less waste shrinks your footprint.
- Living within Earth's limits is the goal of sustainability.
在地球的极限内生活
- 地球供应资源的能力有限——它的生物承载力(biocapacity)。
- 人类的总足迹现在超出地球能再生的。
- 用更少的能量、更少的肉、更少的浪费,能缩小你的足迹。
- 在地球的极限内生活,是可持续性的目标。
Bigger or smaller footprint? · 更大还是更小的足迹?
Sort each choice by whether it raises or lowers a person's ecological footprint. · 按照每个选择是提高还是降低一个人的生态足迹,给它们分类。
Using less energy, eating less meat, and reducing waste all lower your footprint. · 用更少的能量、吃更少的肉、减少浪费,都降低你的足迹。
These choices reduce the resources you use, shrinking your ecological footprint. · 这些选择减少你使用的资源,缩小你的生态足迹。
Select all · 所有 true statements about ecological footprints. · 选出关于生态足迹的所有正确说法。
Footprints vary hugely between people and countries. The other three are correct. · 足迹在人与人、国与国之间差异巨大。其余三条正确。
Footprints are deeply unequal. A person in a wealthy, high-consumption country can have a footprint many times larger than someone in a poorer country. So "living sustainably" means very different things depending on how much you already consume — the biggest footprints have the most room to shrink.
足迹深度不平等。一个富裕、高消费国家的人,足迹能比一个更穷国家的人大许多倍。所以"可持续地生活"根据你已经消费多少而意味着非常不同的事——最大的足迹有最多缩小的空间。
Two lifestyles compared:
- Person A drives a big car, eats meat daily, and buys lots of goods — a large footprint.
- Person B cycles, eats mostly local plants, and wastes little — a small footprint.
- If everyone lived like A, we would need several Earths; living like B, far fewer resources are used.
比较两种生活方式:
- 甲开大车、每天吃肉、买许多商品——一个大的足迹。
- 乙骑自行车、大多吃本地的植物、很少浪费——一个小的足迹。
- 如果每个人都像甲那样生活,我们会需要好几个地球;像乙那样生活,用的资源少得多。
An ecological footprint measures the land and resources a person or country uses (and the waste they make). High energy use, meat, and consumption raise it; simple, low-resource living lowers it. When humanity's footprint overshoots Earth's biocapacity, we use more than the planet can sustain.
一个生态足迹衡量一个人或国家使用的土地和资源(以及他们产生的废物)。高能量使用、肉和消费提高它;简单、低资源的生活降低它。当人类的足迹超出地球的生物承载力时,我们使用超过地球能维持的。