What Washington does—or doesn't do—to promote alternative energy may mean less and less at a time of a global shift in thought.

在这个全球思维都在转变的时代，华盛顿在推动可替代能源发展方面作为或是不作为，其影响越来越小。

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It is a global shift.

它是全球的变化。

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But the global shift that is under way is in many ways desirable, as well as practically inevitable.

但是，全球目前正在进行中的转变在许多方面都是值得期待的，实际上也是不可避免的。

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But we do have to recognize a global shift in consciousness on environmental issues.

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