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对许多世界环境问题来说,90年代是关键的十年。部分地由克林顿政府领导的世界共同体做些什么和没做什么,将决定着我们能否在不对地球和子孙后代生活质量造成不可逆转性破坏的情况下遏止自然生命支撑系统状况的恶化。对最基本的环境问题之一即人口呈指数增长而言,90年代显然是决定性的十年。正如环境质量委员会前主席R.彼得森曾说过的,“地球上一切生活的质量日益受到某种强大的、愈来愈加剧的生态力量的威胁。我们人类就是这种力量,我们越来越多的人使用着越来越多的物料,以越来越多的机械、化学品、武器和废料扰乱着环境。”
For many world environmental issues, the 1990s were a crucial decade. What, and what not, what the world community, led in part by the Clinton administration, will determine whether we can deter the deterioration of the natural life support system without irreversible damage to the quality of life of our planet and future generations. The 1990s were clearly the decisive decade for one of the most fundamental environmental problems, the exponential growth of population. As R. Petersen, the former chairman of the Environmental Quality Council once said, “The quality of all life on earth is increasingly threatened by some formidable and growing ecological power that we human beings are and that we are getting more and more More people use more and more materials, disrupting the environment with more and more machinery, chemicals, weapons and waste. ”