Just as pressures on oil and gas supplies have driven up energy prices, environmental stresses may now push up food and water prices in many parts of the world. Given the heat waves, droughts, and other climate stresses across the US, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere this year, wheat prices are now shooting up to their highest levels in decades.
正如石油和天然气的供应压力导致能源价格上涨一样，环境压力现在可能会抬高世界很多地方的食品和用水价格。由于今年发生在美国、欧洲、澳大利亚和世界其他国家的热浪、干旱和其他气候灾难，小麦的价格目前已经飙升到几十年来的最高点。这样，环境压力对人们的影响就已经到达了底线¾环境压力正在影响全世界民众的收入和生活。