But I realized, for that to be true -- for theft of our children's future to be a crime -- there must be a clear, demonstrable alternative to the take-make-waste industrial system that so dominates our civilization, and is the major culprit, stealing our children's future, by digging up the earth and converting it to products that quickly become waste in a landfill or an incinerator -- in short, digging up the earth and converting it to pollution.
但我意识到， 要使得偷窃后代财富成为一种罪 那我们必须得找到一种可行的替代方案 把现今成为人类文明之主导的 “掠夺-生产-废物”式的工业体系改革过来 因为这个正是偷窃我们后代财富的罪魁祸首 我们开采地下的资源 然后通过工业将其变为产品，这些产品很快又会成为废物 被运到填埋场或焚烧炉 简单点，用保罗和安妮的话来讲，