Our planet will not physically support this exponential economic growth if we let greed take the upper hand. Even today, the weight of the world economy is already crushing nature, rapidly depleting the supplies of fossil-fuel energy resources that nature created over millions of years, while the resulting climate change has led to massive instabilities in terms of rainfall, temperature, and extreme storms.
如果我们让贪婪占了上风的话，这个地球将无法承受这样的指数式经济增长。即便是今天的世界经济规模也开始与大自然产生摩擦，大自然花费数百万年创造的化石燃料资源正被人类迅速消耗着，随之产生的气候变化又导致了大规模的降雨，温度和极端风暴等不稳定状况。