The usual explanation of today’s scarcity and high prices focuses on explosive growth in emerging countries, China and India in particular, whose demand for scarce resources is “insatiable.” But psychology also matters in speculative markets, and perhaps that image of the Greenland ice disappearing makes it seem all too plausible that everything else– land, water, even fresh air – is running out too.
对当今的短缺和商品高价的解释专注于新兴国家的爆炸式增长，特别是中国和印度的增长，并认为这两个国家对稀缺资源的需求是“无底洞”。但是，心理学在投机市场上也会起作用，或许格林兰冰川的消融使所有其它的事物——土地，水，甚至是新鲜空气——也都快用完了似乎成为事实。