When most people think about changing the way America USES energy, they imagine new ways of generating electricity like solar farms or new nuclear reactors.

当大多数人考虑如何改变美国使用能源的方式时，他们都会设想发电的新途径，如太阳能农场或新的核反应堆。

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As Stan Cox points out in his book, "Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World", America USES more energy for air conditioning than Africa USES for everything.

正如Stan Cox在他所写的《失去我们的清凉：我们这个被空调冷却的世界中，一些让人不安的事实》一书中指出的，美国在制冷方面消耗的能源比非洲总的能源消耗还多。

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It uses over four times as many citizens as America to produce less than half America's output.

中国用比美国多三倍的人力生产了不到美国一半的产出。

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The Midwestern city of 250,000 is not only home to the largest Burmese community in America, the U.S.State Department also uses it extensively as a resettlement site.

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