We're not approaching the ecological limits to growth; we're well past them.

而我们现在不是在接近经济增长的生态极限，而是远远超过了这个极限。

But the new research suggests it's more likely that California blue whales have reached the limits to growth in that region of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

更可能的原因是它们的数量已经达到了该物种在东太平洋环境容纳量的最大值。

Even when the limits to growth became more evident, governments were still either unwilling, or, because of the size and transnational nature of the market, incapable of stepping in.

即使经济增长的限制变得愈发明显，政府还是不愿意介入或由于市场的规模和跨国性质而无法介入。

The limits to growth and the cliff that we are stepping over is at least one foot is the delayed feedback.

成长的极限和我们要跨过的悬崖至少有一英尺就是延迟反馈。

And books like The Population Bomb; Al Gore's first book, Earth in the Balance; The Limits to Growth — all these great environmental classics all stem directly from his work.

MANN：还有像 The Population Bomb 这样的书；戈尔的第一本书《平衡中的地球》；增长的极限——所有这些伟大的环境经典都直接源于他的作品。