Granted, we're not very good at looking after our planet, and we are in a dire predicament, but thinking we'll be extinct in less than a century is a little over the top.

诚然，我们对自己的地球关爱不够，我们身处可怕的困境，但若说我们将在一个世纪内灭绝，这还真有点夸张。

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If we were merely faced with having to make adjustments to our ability to transport things and people, we would not be in such a dire predicament.

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America faces no such dire predicament.

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If anything, its predicament is even more dire today.

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