But as we straddle the top of this energy mountain, at this stage, we move from a time where our economic success, our sense of individual prowess and well-being is directly linked to how much of this we consume, to a time when actually our degree of oil dependency is our degree of vulnerability.
但现在当我们处在能源的顶峰， 过去，我们的经济成功， 个人能力和福利 直接取决于我们消耗的石油的多少。 到现在我们对石油的依赖 正是我们的弱点。