Has become a universal dream,

成为了普遍理想
Preached by televisions all over the world.

通过电视传遍世界
Even here in Beijing,

甚至在北京
It is cloned, copied and reproduced...

千篇一律建造这种标准化房子
In these formatted houses that have wiped pagodas of the map.

取代了原有的古典飞檐建筑
The automobile has become the symbol of comfort and progress.

汽车成为了舒适和进步的标志
If this model were followed by every society,

如果每个社会都遵循这种模式
The planet wouldn't have 900 million vehicles, as it does today,

那么地球上不会像今天一样有9亿辆汽车
But five billion.

而是50亿辆
Faster and faster.

越来越快
The more the world develops, the greater its thirst for energy.

世界越发达对能量越渴求
Everywhere, machines dig, bore and rip from the earth...

每个地方机器都在地球上挖掘钻探