In fact, with far fewer people, Asia would have a better balance between population size and available natural resources, including water, food, and energy. In China, for example, water scarcity has been officially estimated to cost roughly $28 billion in annual industrial output, even though China, unlike several other Asian economies, including India, South Korea, and Singapore, is not listed by the United Nations as a country facing water stress.
事实上，如果人口再少一点，亚洲可以获得更佳的人口规模与自然资源（包括水、食品和能源）之间的平衡。比如，据中国官方数据估计，水资源短缺每年要造成大约280亿美元的工业产出损失，尽管中国并没有出现在联合国面临水压力国家的名单中（印度、韩国和新加坡在列）。