If in these activities the physical features of the planet are damaged, if the environment is made inhospitable for a multitude of living species, then so be it.
如果在这些活动中，这个行星的地理特征遭到破坏，环境不再适合大量物种居住，那么就随它去吧。
I suspect the realities of living on a warming planet with a spiraling population and dwindling resources will remain unknown for some time yet.
我觉得人类生活在一个日益变暖的星球，人口螺旋式增长而资源不断减少，这一现实或许还需时日才能为人所知。
To settle the question, researchers would need to find living organisms on the planet and examine their biochemistry.
为了解决这个问题，研究人员需要在这颗星球上找到活生物体并检查它们的生物化学。
It was easy to support the concept of international commerce when we were living on Thomas Friedman's "Planet Flat, " where the barriers to trade fell away and globalization kicked into high gear.
当我们都生活在托马斯·弗里德曼的“扁平行星”*上时，国际商业交往的概念很容易实施，那里的贸易壁垒已经落下，全球化则高速前进。
How can you imagine that every person on this planet has the same requirements for happy and balanced living?
能否想象，世间所有人都对健康和平衡的生活有相同要求？
There are already 6.8 billion people living on this crowded planet and the figure is expected to rise to 9 billion by 2050.
在这个拥挤的地球上，已经生活着68亿人了，而这一数字预计到2050年将增加到90亿。
Then we found out that if every living soul on the planet had a fridge and a house and an S.U.V., we would choke on our own exhaust.
然后，我们发现每一个在星球上活着的灵魂都拥有一台冰箱和一套住宅和一辆SUV，接着我们窒息而死。
That means that the 9 billion people who will be living on the planet in 2050 must be producing, on average, no more than about two tonnes of greenhouse gases per year each.
那意味着到2050年生活在地球上的90亿人们平均每人每年产生的温室气体不能高于2吨。
As indicated by LPIs (Living Planet Index) in tropical or poor countries, the LPIs since 1970s have fallen by 60%.
这一影响清楚地反映在热带国家和贫穷国家的地球生命力指数中——自1970年以来，热带国家和贫穷国家的地球生命力指数都下降了60%。
We are all living in a sound bite world which has made us the most impatient people ever to occupy this planet.
我们都居住在一个即时通天下的世界，这让我们成了地球上有史以来最没耐心的一代。
We link ourselves to all living beings on the planet through the process of eating and being a participant in the food chain.
食物形成的过程将我们人类与地球上其他生物密切联系在一起，我们也是食物链的一环。
In addition to nourishing ourselves, our planet and others around the world, we want to support fair policies that treat workers with respect and allow them to earn a living wage.
除了养活我们自己，我们的星球和世界各地的人，我们要支持公平的政策，这些政策要求尊重的对待劳动者并且让他们挣得可以谋生的工资。
Assuming we have all been living on the same planet, we cannot all have believed correctly.
如果我们永远处于地球之上，那么也就不可能得到正确的答案。
As he observes, half the mass of living organisms on the planet is made of bacteria and these bacteria are divided into zillions of species with countless unidentified genes.
据他所观察，地球上有一半的活体有机物是由细菌组成，这些细菌种类繁多，有着数不胜数、未经发现的基因。
Arsenic is an element poisonous to every other living creature in the planet except for a few specialized microscopic creatures.
砷是一种对地球上所有其他生物有毒的元素，除了对少数特别的极小的生物。
Another indicator, the Living Planet Index, averages changes in the sizes of populations of 1, 686 vertebrate species.
另一个指标，地球生命指数，是1 686种脊椎动物的种群数量变化的平均数。
It supports astoundingly complex and diverse communities of Marine life and is the largest structure on the planet built by living organisms.
那里有着种类及数量惊人的海洋生物，是世界上最大的由生物体组成的单体结构。
Living inextreme conditions about two miles above sea level, they have become the oldesttrees on the planet.
虽然生活在海拔两英里高的残酷环境中，这些针毬松却成为了地球上寿命最长的树。
This "rise of the rest" is a remarkable achievement, bringing with it unprecedented improvements in living standards for the majority of people on the planet.
“其余国家的崛起”是一个非凡的成就，使得全球大多数人的生活水平得到空前提高。
They are among the toughest creatures known to science, and species like them could make up two thirds of all the living material on the planet.
它们是科学家发现的最强悍的生物，这些物种占了我们这个星球上生命的三分之二。
For these are the nations that are already living with the unfolding effects of a warming planet - famine and drought; disappearing coastal villages and the conflict that arises from scarce resources.
因为这些国家的生活已经受到了全球变暖的影响- - -饥荒和干旱；沿海村庄消失和源于稀缺资源的冲突。
Can the planet cope with people living so long?
人活得这么久，地球应付得来吗？
Water is the source of life and the link that binds all living beings on this planet.
水是生命之源，也是维系地球上所有生命的纽带。
We link ourselves to all living beings on the planet through theprocess of eating and being a participant in the food chain.
我们进食，成为食物链的一环，所以与地球上的万物生灵息息相通。
It's amazing that the ocean contains 99% of the living space on the planet and yet less than 10% of that space has been explored by humans.
海洋包含了地球上99%的生存空间，实在是令人惊讶，但其中只有不到10%是被人类探索过。
That little light bulb you have in the living room is killing the planet. It does not matter if it’s an LED, a CFL, or an incandescent.
正是你客厅里的那个小灯泡已经在扼杀这个星球，不管他是LED，节能灯，还是白炽灯。
That little light bulb you have in the living room is killing the planet. It does not matter if it’s an LED, a CFL, or an incandescent.
正是你客厅里的那个小灯泡已经在扼杀这个星球，不管他是LED，节能灯，还是白炽灯。
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