1.5.6.1

We Can Work Together to Solve Environmental Problems
Making the shift to more sustainable societies and economies involves building what sociologists call social capital. This involves getting people with different views and values to talk and listen to one another, find common ground based on understanding and trust, and work together to solve environmental and other problems. This means nurturing openness, communication, cooperation, and hope and discouraging close mindedness, polarization, confrontation, and fear.

我們能夠共同努力解決環境問題
使轉向更可持續的社會和經濟需要建設一個什麼社會學家呼籲社會資本。這涉及到讓人們有不同的看法和價值觀的 交談，並聽取對方，找到共同點的基礎上了解和信任，共同努力解決環境和其他問題。這意味著培育開放，溝通，合作，並希望和失望的密切意識，兩極分化，對抗 和恐懼。

1.3.2.1

Our Ecological Footprints Are Growing

Supplying people with renewable resources and dealing with the resulting wastes and pollution can have a large environmental impact. We can think of it as an ecological footprint-the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply the people in a particular country or area with renewable resources and to absorb and recycle the wastes and pollution produced by resource use. The per capita ecological footprint is the average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area.

我們的生態足跡的增長
供應人與可再生資源和處理由此產生的廢物與污染構成一個很大環境影響。我們可以把它作為一個生態足跡——生物生產所需的土地和水的供應在某一特定國家或地區的可再生資源，並吸收和回收的廢物和污染所產生的資源利用。人均生態足跡的平均生態足跡個人在某一國家或地區。