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佛教有一句箴言,它说“尽管牛行走很慢,但是地球有耐心。”不幸的是,现在的地球已没有了它以往的耐心。地球曾经默默无言、忍气吞声地承受了我们对它的糟踏。地球再也不会如此了。环境的破坏从根本上源于两个方面,一个是每个人消耗多少,另一个是有多少人消耗这些东西。令地球失去耐心的,是人口和消耗以几何级数增长。世界经历了5万年,人口才达到10亿。现在的人口已超过50亿,再过15年,全球人口还将增加10亿。认真研究这一事实,将会体味其中的含义。以前增加10亿人口需要5万年,现在仅需15年。因人口增加对地球维持生命系统形成的与日俱增的压力,又怎么可能不愈演愈烈呢?
Buddhism has a proverb that “although the cow walks slowly, the Earth is patient.” Unfortunately, the earth is no longer patience with its past. Earth once silently, swallowed up to bear with us to its bad. Earth is no longer the case. The destruction of the environment stems from two aspects: one is how much each person consumes, and the other is how many people consume these things. The impatience of the earth is the geometric growth of population and consumption. The world has experienced 50,000 years and its population has reached 1 billion. The population now exceeds 5 billion. In another 15 years, the global population will increase by 1 billion. Seriously study this fact, will appreciate the meaning. The previous increase of 1 billion people required 50,000 years, now it takes only 15 years. How could the pressure of growing population on Earth’s life-support system not be intensified?