NEW YORK – Reconciling global economic growth, especially in developing countries, with the intensifying constraints on global supplies of energy, food, land, and water is the great question of our time. Commodity prices are soaring worldwide, not only for headline items like food and energy, but for metals, arable land, fresh water, and other crucial inputs to growth, because increased demand is pushing up against limited global supplies.
纽约－调和全球经济增长－特别是发展中国家的经济增长－与全球能源、粮食、土地和水不断强化的供应制约的矛盾，是我们时代的一个重大课题。因为需求的增加与有限的全球供应相比，差距越来越大，所以商品价格在全球范围内暴涨，不仅仅是像食品和能源这样饱受关注的商品，而且还有金属、耕地、淡水以及其他对增长至关重要的要素。在油价每桶135美元以及去年以来谷物价格翻番的压力下，全球经济已经在放缓。