来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：环境政治与法律第1集第1集》

It made me wonder about what the potential of law is.

它使我对法律的潜能感到疑惑
What capacity do we have to understand serious threats

我们能理解
to the environment and to human health,

环境和人类健康的严重威胁吗
particularly over long periods of time?

特别是很久以后
What demands on science does that make?

它对科技有什么要求
And how can we use law to effectively reshape

我们怎么用法律来有效地
human behavior in a way that would be more sensitive,

把人类行为改造得更敏感
that would ensure that when we have twelve billion people

以确保120亿人的世界
in the world that we will have adequate food supplies,

有足够的食物
we will have sufficient water,

足够的水
it will be equitably distributed, we will have clean air,

会被等量分配我们会有干净的空气
and children, grandchildren,

会有子孙