At the global level, the world’s governments should finally understand that the treaties that they have all signed in recent years on climate, environment, and biodiversity are at least as important to global security as all of the war zones and crisis hotspots that grab the headlines, budgets, and attention. By focusing on the underlying challenges of sustainable development, our governments could more easily end the current crises (as in Darfur) and head off many more crises in the future.
在全球范围内，世界各国政府应该最终理解他们近年来所签署的气候、环境和生物多样性协议对全球安全的意义至少和占据了头版头条、财政预算和吸引了人们关注的所有战区和危机热点同样重要。如果集中全力迎接可持续发展带来的挑战，我们的政府就能够更容易地解决目前的危机（比如达尔富尔）并防止将来爆发更多的危机。