Week3 翻譯(第1-3章。第二小節。第二小段)

If a country's, or the world's, total ecological footprint is larger than its biological capacity to replenish its renewable resources and absorb the resulting waste products and pollution, it is said have an ecological deficit.

假如一個國家，或是整個世界，它的總生態足跡是比補充它的可再生資源和吸收所導致的廢物和汙染的生物的能力大，這就像是可能會有生態赤字ㄧ樣。

In 2006, the World Wildlife Fund and the Global Footprint Network estimated that humanity's global ecological footprint exceeded the earth's biological capacity by 25%(Figure1-8,bottom).

在2006年，世界野生動物基金和全球足跡網路估計人類在全球的生態足跡已經超出了地球生物能力的大約25％(底下圖1-8)。

That figure was about 88% in the world's high-income countries, with the United States having the world's largest total ecological footprint.
If the current continues, the Global Footprint Network estimates that by 2050 humanity will be trying to use twice as many renewable resources as the planet can supply(Figure1-8)(Concept1-3).

這張圖說明在全球大約有88％的是在高所得國家，而美國就擁有了全世界最大的生態足跡。如果近年使用可再生資源持續的以指數型態成長，全球足跡網路估計在2050年人類將會試圖使用地球所提供的可再生資源的兩倍(圖1-8)(觀念1-3)。

See Figure 3 on pp.S16-S17 and Figure 5 on p. S19 in Supplement 4 for maps of human ecological footprints for the world and the United States and Figure 4 on p.S18 for a map of countries that are ecological debtors and those that are ecological creditors.

參閱在pp.S16-S17的圖3和在p.S19圖5補充4的一張人類生態足跡在全世界和美國的圖和在p.S18圖4ㄧ張國家的生態債務人和那些生態債權人的圖。