我们人类不是为消耗这么多的糖而生的。
这是人类做的事:他们生产然后消耗。
目前的情况是,人类每天平均消耗15兆瓦特的能量,而其中的85%来自燃烧化石燃料,例如石油,煤矿,天然气。
Today, humans consume an average of 15 trillion watts of power, 85% of which comes from burning fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas.
心理学教授简尼特k斯维姆和她的同事作的报告称,不断增加的消耗和不断上升的人口数量是人类对环境产生的两个重要影响因素。
Janet K. Swim, professor of psychology, Penn State, and her colleagues report that growing consumption and growing population are two significant contributors to human impact on the environment.
这些都很令人欣慰,不过你应该知道,农业灌溉消耗的水量占到了人类总耗水量的70%。
This is all reassuring—until you remember that irrigated agriculture accounts for 70 percent of the fresh water used by humans.
该文章称,人类的食物系统已经消耗世界上所有植物产出的12%。
The human food system already consumes 12 percent of the output of all the world's plants, the paper said.
人类大脑重量大致占身体总重量的2%,然而却消耗超过20%的人身体所吸收的氧气和营养。
The human brain accounts for roughly 2% of the total mass of the human body, yet it consumes over 20% of the oxygen and nutrients the human body intakes.
对于人类来说,资源的消耗是一件棘手的问题。然而,我们必须开始谈及这些问题。
Consumption is a tricky issue for us, but we need to start talking about it.
全球范围内工业上对化石燃料的消耗和排放不是人类改变地球气候的唯一方式。
THE planet-wide industrial exhalation of previously fossilised carbon is not the only way that humans are changing the Earth’s climate.
地域如此之广,结果却惊人地相似,麦凯伦博士不禁产生了这样的假想:人类大脑网络调整着我们对食盐的喜好,所以总是消耗着大致固定量的食盐。
The results were so similar in so many places that Dr. McCarron hypothesized that networks in the brain regulate sodium appetite so that people consume a set daily level of salt.
大脑还会缩小吗?有专家称,为了减少能量消耗,随着时间的推移,人类的大脑的容量会缩小到与我们穴居祖先相仿的程度。
Shrinking? Experts claim over time the brain could reduce in size, back towards our our Neanderthal ancestors, to reduce the energy it consumes
这份每两年出版一次的《地球生命力报告》称,如果人类继续以这种方式消耗资源,到2030年,全球人口将需要两个地球才能满足其需求。
And humanity carries on as it is in use of resources, globally it will need the capacity of two Earths by 2030, the biennial Living Planet Report said.
恒温动物,如人类和犬只,通过消耗大部分的能量产生热量来保持身体的温暖。
Warm-blooded animals, like humans and dogs, spend much of their energy generating heat to keep the body warm.
大多数谷物一般都用作人类食品或者家畜饲料,但数十年来随着人口增长趋于缓和,人类谷物消耗量的增长已逐渐减缓。
Most grains are used as food either for people or for livestock. But the increase in human consumption has been slowing for decades as population growth moderates.
布朗认为,人类依靠自然资源生活,土壤侵蚀,地下水消耗的速度比它们得到补充的速度要快。
Human beings are living off naturalcapital, Brown argues, eroding soil and depleting groundwater faster than theycan be replenished.
不仅如此,由于人口迅速增长,人类正在迅速的消耗农作物用地。
Not just that, but mankind is rapidly running out of land to grow crops due to a rapidly growing population.
尽管烹饪并没有增加食物的热量,但由于烹饪使得食物更易消化,减少了人类消化食物所消耗的热量。
And heat physically softens food. That makes it easier to digest, so even though the stuff is no more calorific, the body USES fewer calories dealing with it.
人类为了减少能源消耗所做的努力之一便是用新的螺旋紧凑型荧光灯来换下他们的旧灯泡。
One of the efforts people are making to try and reduce the amount of energy they use is to replace their old light bulbs with the new spiral compact fluorescent kind.
他说,人类不愿意正视全球变暖、迅速消耗有限资源带来的巨大威胁。
He says humanity is living in denial about the severity of the threat it faces from global warming and its rapid use of finite resources.
此外,如果没有烹饪,人类大脑(它消耗了机体20- 25%的能量)不能运转。
Moreover, without cooking, the human brain (which consumes 20-25% of the body's energy) could not keep running.
亚利桑那大学的人类学副教授大卫·里奇伦说:“其中一只大猩猩用两条腿行走时消耗的能量较少,还有一只两种行走方式消耗的能量相同。 其余的两条腿行走时消耗的能量较多。”
One of the chimps used less energy on two legs, one used about the same and the others used more, said David Raichlen, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.
他把人工智能的崛起描述为“蛆疗法”:他只会消耗不再属于人类的劳动市场份额,从而复兴我们人类。
He describes the rise of artificial intelligence as "maggot therapy: it consumes only those portions [of the job market] that are no longer human, restoring us to health."
但知道现在这种说法在人类中才有据可查,即研究人员观察了人们消耗的维生素多少,然后算出了肿瘤的总数。
But until now the human evidence has been mostly observational, meaning researchers looked at how much of the vitamin people consumed and then counted up the cancers.
相似地,Pelletier和Tyedmers还确证了未来的畜产品需求将消耗掉人类从地球上安全收获的全部生物质的88%。
Similarly, Pelletier and Tyedmers determined that future livestock demand would consume 88 percent of all of the biomass that humans can safely harvest from the earth's lands.
塞满了:科学家们声称由于能量消耗方面的原因,人类的大脑已经达到了最大容量。
Packed: Scientists claim that the brain could now have reached capacity because of the energy it takes to use.
因此,消耗的时代必须终结,而一个人类灵性觉醒的全新时代必须启动。
Therefore the consumptive era must conclude and a new era of spiritual awakening amongst humans must take off.
有专家称,为了减少能量消耗,随着时间的推移,人类的大脑的容量会缩小到与我们穴居祖先相仿的程度。
Experts claim over time the brain could reduce in size, back towards our our Neanderthal ancestors, to reduce the energy it consumes.
有专家称,为了减少能量消耗,随着时间的推移,人类的大脑的容量会缩小到与我们穴居祖先相仿的程度。
Experts claim over time the brain could reduce in size, back towards our our Neanderthal ancestors, to reduce the energy it consumes.
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