纯粹从环境角度来看，最坏的结果是无所作为，这会让这个问题的严重性、风险性以及最终代价与日俱增。

Purely from an environmental perspective the worst outcome is doing nothing, and every day that we do nothing we increase the magnitude and risk and ultimate cost of the problem.

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最终的代价要大得多：那就是过早死亡。

The ultimate cost is far greater: it is called premature death.

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他的吹嘘最终以他的生命为代价。

His boasting cost him his life, after all.

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That's when we stop giving ourselves the permission to be human, and we pay a price, in terms of our energy levels, of our wellbeing, of our happiness, of our creativity, and ultimately also our success.

那时我们停止准许自己为人，为此我们付出代价，包括精力水平，幸福感，快乐感，创造力，最终以成就大小作为代价。

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