報告稱大自然年的資源預算已用完大綱
Paris (AFP) - In just over seven months, humanity hasused up a full year's allotment of natural resources such as water, food andclean air -- the quickest rate yet, according to a new report.
巴黎（法新社）——根據一份最新的報道，在僅僅七個多月的時間裏，人類已經用完了一整年自然資源的配額，比如水、食物和潔淨的空氣。這是有史以來最快的速度。
The point of "overshoot" will officially bereached on Monday, said environmental group Global Footprint Network -- fivedays earlier than last year.
環保組織 Global Footprint Network表示，週一就達到“過度”的臨界點，比去年早了五天。
"We continue to grow our ecological debt,"said Pascal Canfin of green group WWF, reacting to the annual update.
作爲對年度環境數據的迴應，環保組織WWF的Pascal Canfin說到：“我們欠大自然的賬單會不斷增加。”
"From Monday august 8, we will be living oncredit because in eight months we would have consumed the natural capital thatour planet can renew in a year."
從8月8日週一開始，我們就活在透支的狀態，因爲在八個月裏我們用完了地球一年才能再生的自然資源。
The gloomy milestone is marked every year on what isknown as Earth Overshoot Day.
這個悲傷的里程碑般的日子被定義爲每年的“地球超支日”。
In 1993, the day fell on October 21, in 2003 onSeptember 22 and last year on August 13.
1993年“地球超支日”是10月21日，2003年是9月22日，而去年是8月13日。
In 1961, according to the network, humankind used onlyabout three-quarters of Earth's annual resource allotment. By the 1970s, economicand population growth sent Earth into annual overshoot.
根據Global Footprint Network所說，1961年，人類一年只用了四分之三的自然資源配額。而到了20世紀70年代，經濟和人口增長把地球推到了年度的自然資源超支。
"This is possible because we emit more carbondioxide into the atmosphere than our oceans and forests can absorb, and wedeplete fisheries and harvest forests more quickly than they can reproduce andregrow," the network said in a statement.
Global Footprint Network在一份聲明中說到：“這是有可能的，因爲我們向大氣中排放更多的二氧化碳，而海洋和森林無法全部吸收，我們消耗漁牧業所得的速度也超過了它們生產繁殖的速度。”
To calculatethe date for Earth Overshoot Day, the group crunches UN data on thousands ofeconomic sectors such as fisheries, forestry, transport and energy production.
爲了計算出地球超支日的具體日期，聯合國數據組研究了成千上萬的數據，比如漁業、林業、交通和能源生產。
Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions, it said, arenow the fastest-growing contributor to ecological overshoot, making up 60percent of humanity's demands on nature .
數據組說，全球變暖的溫室氣體排放是導致生態超載的最快成長因素，構成了人類對自然需求的60%。
According to the UN, the number of people on Earth isforecast to grow from 7.3 billion today to 11.2 billion by the end of thecentury -- piling further pressure on our planet and its finite resources.
據聯合國估計，到本世紀末，地球上的人類會從目前的73億增長到112億，這將給地球及其有限的資源帶來更大的壓力。
