当初曾有人问圣雄甘地,印度独立后是否有朝一日能达到当时英国的生活水平。甘地说,像英国这样的强国要消耗地球大量的资源才能称霸,落后的印度需要消耗多少个地球才能实现繁荣呢?今天,不只是印度,对于所有不发达国家和地区来说,答案已经很清楚了:地球上20%的人口要消耗地球80%的自然资源、46%的肉类、65%的电力、85%的金属和化学品,另外还要产生占全球总量 Someone once asked Mahatma Gandhi whether one day after India’s independence could achieve the standard of living in the United Kingdom at that time. Gandhi said that powerful countries like Britain, which consume vast amounts of resources on the planet to dominate, and how much the backward India needs to consume in order to achieve prosperity? Today, not only India but also all the underdeveloped countries and regions, the answer is clear : 20% of the Earth’s population consumes 80% of the planet’s natural resources, 46% of meat, 65% of electricity, 85% of metals and chemicals, plus a share of the world’s total