All our efforts will be in vain if their results are reversed by continued degradation of the environment and depletion of our natural resources.

如果环境持续恶化，自然资源继续枯竭，我们所做的一切努力都徒劳无益。

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The traditional "resources-products-pollution", one-way linear pattern of economic growth resulted in the continued deterioration of the human environment and the depletion of natural resources.

传统经济“资源要产品要污染排放”的单向线型增长模式造成了人类生存环境的不断恶化和自然资源几近枯竭。

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These include increasing social disparities and inequity, population growth, climate change, the deterioration and pollution of the environment, the unsustainable use of freshwater and depletion of ocean resources, as well as increasing cases of natural and human-made disasters.

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