Population size changes slowly, and human-made capital - homes, cars, roads, factories, or power plants - can last for many decades.

人口数量变化缓慢，而人类创造的资本，如住宅、汽车、道路、工厂或发电站等会持续几十年。

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Most neoclassical economists believe that man-made capital is a good substitute for natural capital and therefore advocate maintaining the sum of the two, an approach called weak sustainability.

新古典经济学家大多相信，人造资本是自然资本的优良替代品，因此提倡维持两者总和的不变，这种方式称为「弱永续」。

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Critical natural capital performs important environmental function, which can't be replaced by man made capital.

关键自然资本是实现重要环境功能的自然资本，它不能被人造资本所替代。

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