With a population that could peak at 6bn by 2050, Asia does not have the luxury of exploitation of global resources that the west enjoyed in the building of the modern world. What Asia therefore needs is new ideas – ones that tackle the challenge of establishing what kind of prosperity can be spread across such a huge number of people.
到2050年人口可能达到60亿的亚洲,不能奢侈地希望像西方那样,利用全球资源构建现代化世界。因此亚洲需要新思想,以解决这样的挑战:什么样的繁荣才能惠及如此庞大的人口?
The western paradigm sees Asia’s large population either as a tremendous market opportunity or a threat to its wellbeing. Similar ideas fill too many Asian minds. Instead, Asia must imagine a future in which urbanisation is not seen as inevitable and necessary, where its cities do not follow the car-driven ways of the west, where food is not produced in fields drenched in chemical fertilisers and pesticides, or where ever-expanding consumption is seen as the only recipe for economic wellbeing and political stability.
按照西方的观点,亚洲的庞大人口要么提供了巨大市场机遇,要么威胁到西方的福祉。太多亚洲人脑子里也充斥着这样的观点。相反,亚洲必须设想一种这样的未来:在这个未来世界里,城市化不是被认为不可避免、不可或缺的,城市发展不是效仿西方那种汽车驱动的模式,食品不是生长在化肥和杀虫剂浸泡的土地中,不断扩展的消费不是被当作增进经济福祉和保持政治稳定的唯一秘诀。
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