In the mid 1980s our world first overshot its capacity to provide for its human population, yet this population continues to grow and we continue to live on borrowed time.

在20世纪80年代中期，我们世界人口第一次超越其承受能力，但这一人口仍在持续增长，我们也继续生活在寅吃卯粮的窘境中。

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Above all, with the human population set to increase by half over the next 40 years, the world needs to work out where its food is going to be produced.

接下来的40年中，人口势必能够在现在的基础上增长半数，世界上最重要的任务就是要找到合适的地点生产我们的粮食。

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And, off-world colonization might help absorb an exploding human population.

再者，地外殖民化有可能帮助容纳爆炸的人口。

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At some point next year, probably during the month of October, the world human population will pass the 6 billion mark for the first time.

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