As in the past, the effectiveness of these initiatives ultimately will depend on whether these impulses reach Europe and Japan, as well as emerging nations like China and Brazil. It is time for Greens everywhere to start attending to ecological matters again – and, strange as it may sound, to look again to America for inspiration.
正如过去一样，这些倡议的有效性最终将取决于这些势态是否到达日本和欧洲以及中国和巴西那样的新兴国家。世界各地的环保主义者现在应该再一次开始关注生态问题，而且，应该再一次向美国看齐获取灵感，尽管这听起来有点奇怪。