The deterioration of the ecological system is accelerating because of the dramatic increase of human production and consumption.

由于人类生产和消费活动的急剧增加，生态系统正在加速恶化。

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The reason for this is that carbohydrate consumption stimulates insulin production, which aids the production of muscle glycogen.

这是因为是碳水化合物的消耗刺激了胰岛素的分泌，胰岛素对于肌糖原的产生有帮助。

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All this has the effect of increasing production and suppressing consumption.

所有这一切的结果是增加生产抑制消费。

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In 1985,Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ordered dramatic cuts in the production of wines and spirits and introduced strict controls on the public consumption of alcohol.

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But if we have credit markets, then people can individually choose to be off the production possibility frontier and at a higher level of consumption than otherwise would.

但如果存在信贷市场,那么个人可以选择超越,PPF曲线的范围,达到比没有信贷市场时更高的消费水平

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Note that all this counts only the so-called static gains from trade: the effects of a once-and-for-all shift in the pattern of production and consumption.

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They rarely take physical delivery of raw materials and have no effect on the actual production and consumption of metal, grain or oil.

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And then the question becomes, as it is for other anti-narcotics policies: should ending the consumption and production of illegal drugs be the be-all and end-all of all public policy, or are there important trade-offs that may not be receiving the attention they deserve?

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