Taking the long view, one must fear that the rising atmospheric temperatures of the 1990s, the highest in nearly 1000 years, will turn out to be of far greater significance than the World Trade Organization or the global economic recession.
放長視野來看，一九九○年之後的氣溫不斷創下近一千年來的高溫紀錄，恐怕遠比 WTO、或全球性經濟恐慌更值得作為世紀事件。