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We want to reduce and repair environmental damage, cut back on the production and consumption of resource-intensive food, increase efficiency and do something about waste.

我们想减少环境破坏，我们想修复破坏的环境，减少资源密集型食物的生产和消费，提高效能，处理浪费。

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Instead, they might be judging how favorable a cut is in terms of only their opinion of the item itself, while ignoring the damage the cut could cause to those affected.

他们可能只是觉得就这个项目本身，它会有多受欢迎，而忽视了缩减会给那些相关联的带来的损失。

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Corbi has a contract with a local helicopter company that will help his family escape if the mountain roads are cut off by damage, fire, or smoke.

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Scottish Labour's local government spokesperson Michael McMahon said the finance secretary had made "poor choices" and that the settlement would "increase job losses, cut services and damage the economic recovery".

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And politicians in India, often cursed by their constituents for flocking to disasters to show their concern, compare rather well with a US president whose first big gesture after Katrina's damage became evident is to cut a five-week vacation short by two days to give the matter his full attention.

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