Taiwan is an island and we depend on the resources of our mountains and seas. But if all we care about is rapid economic development and a burgeoning consumer culture, at the price of a wrecked natural environment, then we are fated to see endless replays of the destruction, such as flooding and landslides, that can be triggered by earthquakes and typhoons.
台灣是一個海島國家，山水才是我們的資源命脈，如果我們的心態永遠只是追逐經濟發展、消費文化的發達，而不斷地去殘害孕育人類的大自然，那麼一個又一個的土石流、震災、風災、水災，大概會成為台灣人的宿命。