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The economy or the environment-must we choose经济还是环境-我们必须选择James Long:Good morning. 早上好！Todays debate question is The economy or the environment-must we choose With me are Mr Lin Shuiqing,from the Society for environmental Preservation,and Mr Qian Liwei ,an economist.今天辩论的题目是“经济或环境我们必须选择“在我身边的是来自环境保护协会的林水清女士，和钱立伟，经济顾问。We are following our usual schedule for three minutes.Mr Qian Liwei will follow,also for three minutes.我们按照我们通常的行程安排三分钟。钱先生随后，也是三分钟。Then we will open the floor for discussion.然后我们将进行开放讨论。If you have any questions or comments,you can use this time to voice them.如果你有任何问题或评论，你可以用这个时间来表达出来。Lin Shuiqing:Good morning,everyone. 早上好，各位。First I am talking to you today about the way large areas of the world are damaged by industrial waste.首先，我今天跟你们讲的是世界上大部分地区被工业废物破坏的方式（问题）。Many paces have been destroyed and many plants and animals have died.许多地方已经被摧毁，许多动植物都死了。This is awful.Factories produce large numbers of harmful chemicals.这是可怕（糟糕）的，工厂生产大量有害化学物质。The waste they create goes into the atmosphere and makes us sick.他们创造的废物进入大气层，使我们生病。 第一页Other types of waste flow into our water,killing river and sea life.其他类型的废水流入我们的水，杀死河流和海洋的生命。Much sea life is being destroyed by fishing boats as well.许多海洋生物也被渔船摧毁了。These boats catch large number of fish left for us to eat in the future.这些船钓到了大量的鱼，我们在未来吃东西。While we damage our environment ,we keep producing more and more people who need more land to live on and more food to eat !当我们破坏环境，我们生产（繁衍）越来越多的人，他们需要更多的土地来生活，更多的食物来吃！The worlds population has grown by six times what it was in 1800.The figure is now about 7 billion people!自1800年，世界人口已增长6倍。现在的数学近70亿人。It is our duty to try to cut back on production and reduce the number of things we make and buy .减少生产和购买的东西，是我们的责任。 The amount of rubbish we produce is turning into a big problem;we need to think more about recycling our waste .我们生产的垃圾数量正在变成一个大问题，我们需要考虑更多的垃圾回收利用。It would be good to increase the amount of waste we recycle ,and teach people ways of living that do not harm the environment .这将是好的，以增加我们回收的废物量，并教会人们不损害环境的生活方式。We may even create more jobs and help our country become more developed at the same time.我们甚至可以创造更多的就业机会，同时帮助我们的国家变得更加发达。Thank you .谢谢。 第二页Qian Liwei:Good morning,ladies and gentlemen. 早上好，女士们和先生们。Thank you,Ms Lin.That was an interesting speech.谢谢你，林女士，这是一个有趣的演讲。It is clear that you are very concerned about the present situation of our environment .很显然，你非常关心我们的环境现状。As a business development consultant,Im often seen as being against the environment.作为一个商务发展顾问，我经常被视为对环境不利。When people think of factories ,they think of greedy businessmen hiding from their responsibilities and only worrying about money.当人们想到工厂时，他们认为贪婪的商人躲避在他们的责任，只为金钱而担心。People often have this belief that development is bad for the environment,but this does not have to be true.人们常有这样的信念：发展对环境不利，但这不一定是真的。What Im here to say is that having worked with many environmental consultants.我在这里说的是，与许多环境顾问一起工作。I know that a healthy environment and development should be possible at the same time.我知道，一个健康的环境和发展应该是可能的同时。There are many factories and industries which control the amount of pollution they produce,and are very careful to spend money repairing any damage they cause.有许多工厂和工业控制着他们生产的污染数量，并且非常小心地花钱修理他们造成的伤害。The people operating these factories are deeply concerned about the environment.经营这些工厂的人们都深切关注环境。We need to stop thinking of companies and businessmen as the enemy ,and give them more credit!我们需要停止把企业和商人视为敌人，并且给他们更多的信用！ 第三页Ms Lin suggested we should cut back on the quantity of thingsWe produce in order to save the environment.林女士建议我们应该减少物品的数量。我们生产为了节省环境。I dont agree with her because then jobs will be lost.我不同意她，因为那时的工作将失去。I believe that people are more important than fish and trees.我相信人比鱼和树更重要。However,I do agree that we should produce more things from materials that have been recycled,and less from raw materials,the supply of which is growing smaller and smaller.然而，我同意，我们应该用已经回收的材料生产更多的东西，而用较少的原料，供应越来越小。What we need are better laws to preserve the environment and still allow our country to grow.我们需要的是更好的法律来保护环境，还允许我们国家发展。This includes controls on how many trees are cut down and how many fish are caught.这包括控制多少树木被砍伐，有多少鱼被捕获。This might make wood and seafood more expensive ,but paying a higher price for some things is not always bad .这可能使木材和海鲜更昂贵，但支付更高的价格，有些事情并不总是坏的。Asking around ,I find many people willing to pay a little higher price for things that are friendly to the environment.四处打听，我发现很多人愿意付出更高的代价，来做对环境有益的事情。Finally,those factories which pollute the environment should ha