47 Too high a price?

Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, over- industrialized planet.

污染就是我们为这个人口过密、过度工业化的星球所付出的代价。

When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish: dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it.

当我们开始考虑垃圾问题时,我们只有4 种对付垃圾的方法:倾倒、焚烧、把垃圾变成再生材料或试图少产生一些垃圾。

We keep trying all four methods, but the sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.

我们一直在试这4种方式，但是,我们在世界范围内仅产生的垃圾的量就有把我们覆盖的危险。

Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet.

然而,垃圾只是我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。

The need to produce ever- increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution.

日益增长的对廉价食物的需求导致了另一种形式的污染。

Industrialized farming methods produce cheap meat products: beef, pork and chicken.

工业化的农作方式生产出了廉价的肉类制品---牛肉、猪肉和鸡肉。