That in the early industrial revolution, Thomas Malthus warned that this world could not support too much development, and that the city dwellers of the 1990s have at last seen the light and become willing to give up their materialistic hedonism?
早在工業革命時代，馬爾薩斯就警告過這個地球不能承擔過度的開發。但偉大的理論並不能阻止歐美國家伐林燒煤；直到七○年代能源危機，才見環保運動者揭竿而起。而九○年代的都市人就真的靈光一現，突然願意放棄高薪華服、物質享樂？