富人太多

Too Many Rich People

富裕国家的公民在考虑人口问题时通常都集中在最贫困国家人口的快速增长上。但是人类对地球生命支持系统的影响不仅取决于生活在这个星球上的人的数量,也取决于这些人的行为。当我们如此思考时。

Concern about population problems among citizens of rich nations generally focuses on rapid population growth in the most poor countries.But in this paper,by analysing the relative impact(as measured by energy consuming flow)on earth's life support systems,the author states a fact which was known by few people:the relatively small population of rich people accounts for roughly two-thirds of global environmental destruction.In 1990,the average energy consum- ing flow of rich nation citizens was 7.4 KW,while in poor nations the value is only 1 KW.In the end,an idea of pro- fessor John P.Holdren for closing the gap is presented.