20% of the word's populaion consumes 80% of its resources
世界只有兩成人口耗用掉約地球八成的資源 (台灣是兩成裏其中之一)
The world spends 12 time more on military expenditures than on aid to developing contries
全球花在軍備上的資金是援助發展中國家資金的12倍
5000 people a day die because of dirty drinking water
1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water
每天有五千人因飲用受汙染的水而死亡
將近有十億人口沒有安全的食用水
Nearly 1 billion people are going hungry
十億人在飢餓邊緣掙扎 (台灣人口數的43.5倍)
Over 50% of grain traded around the world is uesd for animal feed or biofuels
全球有一半的穀物用以餵飼牲口或做為燃料
40% of arable land has suffered long-term damage
全球四成耕地質量下降
Every year,13 millions hectares of forest disappear
每年有一千三百萬公頃森林消失 (約台灣總面積的3.6倍)
One mammal in 4, one bird in 8, one amphibian in 3 are threatened with extinction
Species are dying out at a rhythm 1000 times faster than the natural rate
每四隻哺乳動物、八隻雀鳥、兩隻棲息動物就有一隻瀕凌絕種
生物品種的死亡率比平常快了一千倍
Three quarters of fishing grounds are exhausted,depleted or in dangerous decline
以目前的捕魚速度，海洋到二零五零年就無魚可捕
The average temperature of the last 15 years have been the highest ever recorded
最近十五年是有紀錄以來最熱的
The ice cap is 40% thinner than 40 years ago
四十年來冰冠的厚度減少四成
There may be at least 200 million climate refugees by 2050
到了二零五零年全球將有兩億五千萬氣候難民 (將近台灣的十倍)
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