We face a probable future of nuclear-armed states warring over a scarcity of resources; and that scarcity is largely the consequence of capitalism itself.

我们所面对的未来，很可能是核武器大国为资源短缺而战；而这种短缺大部分是资本主义本身的结果。

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Our increased awareness of the scarcity value of environmental resources makes this lacuna especially troubling.

我们对环境资源稀缺价值意识的增强，让这种忽略令人尤为担心。

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The No. 1 reason is the mentality that there's a scarcity of resources on college campuses.

首先，是因为人们有着这样的心态：大学校园里的资源缺乏。

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The remarkable fact is that, even though the earth's population has more than trebled in a century, the best measure of the scarcity of resources price has fallen virtually throughout that time for just about everything extracted from or grown in the earth, yet has risen, in the form of wages, for the one thing that has become far more abundant: people.

ECONOMIST: A Survey of the 20th Century

Noting that America must put its "fiscal house" in order, President Obama introduces the paper as America's solution to a scarcity of resources and growing complexity of challenges.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

On one hand, sustainability creates huge opportunities by catalysing innovation and on the other, it calls for transformation in which global challenges of growth, urbanization, scarcity of natural resources and environmental change will become key strategic business drivers.

FORBES: Business Action at Rio+20