But only if research is doubled to create new energy-efficient technologies will we eventually consume less energy overall and more energy in an environmentally friendly way. The ecological disasters that today’s economic activity has already produced and the catastrophic potential of those to come have at last brought home the fact that energy policy and environmental protection cannot be separated.
但是我们只有下大力气加大研究力度以创造新的能效技术，我们最终才能做到消耗的能源总量大大减少，并且能源消耗更多地是以不影响环境的方式来进行的。今天的经济活动所已经制造出的生态灾难以及可能将会带来的灾难性后果最终使人们认识到能源政策和环境保护必须被放在一起进行考虑。