We must try to minimize environmental degradation.

我们必需努力将环境退化最小化。

Big crowds have big drawbacks, though, risking environmental degradation, unsafe conditions and wildlife disruption.

不过，观光人数众多也有很大的缺点，可能会导致环境恶化、环境不安全以及野生动物受到侵扰。

And yet, sadly, 50 percent of the Great Barrier Reef has been lost already to climate change and environmental degradation.

然而，可悲的是，大堡礁的 50% 已经消失，原因是气候变化和环境衰退。

That's because economic growth can be correlated with environmental degradation, while protecting the environment is sometimes correlated with greater poverty.

这是因为经济增长可能与环境退化相关，而保护环境有时与更多的贫困相关。

Finally, there are the zippers, buttons, and rivets made of copper and other metals, whose mining is yet another source of environmental degradation.

最后，还有由铜和其他金属制成的拉链、纽扣和铆钉，它们的开采是环境恶化的另一个源头。

But whilst evidence of environmental degradation is mounting, the avocado industry is still growing along with consumer demand.

但是， 虽然环境恶化的证据越来越多，但鳄梨产业仍在随着消费者需求的增长而增长。

Additionally, it helps to address issues that might otherwise go ignored, such as poverty, homelessness, and environmental degradation.

此外，它有助于解决原本可能被忽视的问题，例如贫困、无家可归和环境退化。

Biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and severe impacts on ecosystem services have not only accompanied conventional farming systems but have often extended well beyond their field boundaries.

生物多样性的丧失、环境退化和对生态系统服务的严重影响不仅伴随着传统农业系统，还往往远超出其田间边界。

Across four continents they're tackling complex challenges from organized crime to environmental degradation, they're advancing the rights of women, girls, LGBTQI plus people and other marginalized groups.

在四大洲，他们正在应对从有组织犯罪到环境恶化的复杂挑战，他们正在推进妇女、女孩、LGBTQI以及其他边缘群体的权利。

In my life journey, I realized that our behavior and consumption habits have contributed in environmental degradation and have resulted in global warming.

在我的人生旅途中，我意识到我们的行为和消费习惯导致了环境退化并导致全球变暖。

Now, some of these challenges are being addressed, thankfully, like environmental degradation, but there are others that remain in urgent need of fixing.

现在，谢天谢地，其中一些挑战正在得到解决，比如环境退化，但还有其他一些挑战仍然迫切需要解决。

An apparently innocuous comment, rooted in the same common-sense good science that informed the Lancet report on meat and environmental degradation published around the same time? Not if you asked the Republicans, it wasn't.

和同一时间发表在《柳叶刀》上的关于肉类和环境恶化的报告一样，这条评论也植根于常识性的正确科学，看起来全然无害，可果真如此么？如果你问共和党人的话，他们可不敢苟同。

While some argue that this is a positive development, as it contributes to the growth of cities, others see it as a negative development, as it causes environmental degradation and the loss of green spaces.

一些人认为这是一种积极的发展，因为它有助于城市的发展，而另一些人则认为这是一种消极的发展，因为它会导致环境退化和绿色空间的丧失。