With a soaring population and a stock of natural resources that is shrinking fast, it is hard to be optimistic.

随着人口剧增和自然资源储存的迅速减少，很难抱乐观态度。

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With the sharp drop in the stock of natural resources and the severely damaged ecological balance, the living environment of human beings has also been a severe challenge.

随着生态平衡遭到严重的破坏以及自然资源存量的锐减，人类的生存环境也受到了严峻的挑战。

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People alive today will pass on a stock of exhaustible and other natural resources as well as machines, buildings and social institutions.

生活在今天的人们将会把一整套可用竭自然资源、其它自然资源、机械、建筑和社会习俗传给下一代。

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People alive today will pass on a stock of exhaustible and other natural resources as well as machines, buildings and social institutions.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

Indeed, they go much further than capital stock, natural resources, education, or the other usual suspects of textbook economics, towards explaining why a worker's productivity rises so astonishingly when he merely crosses the political boundary between Mexico and the United States.

ECONOMIST: Mancur Olson