What, you might say, yet another book from Paul and Anne Ehrlich on the environment, population and consumption, and about how humans are grossly degrading Earth's life-support systems? Can the Ehrlichs have anything new and different to offer about the crises they have been trumpeting for decades? Well, they certainly do in this latest book, which is full of pioneering analyses and innovative insights. The book's initial purpose is to present our predicament in terms of the environmental ruin, fostered by political hubris and citizens' myopia, that overtook the ancient Assyrian capital Nineveh. The disaster was poetically exemplified by Rudyard Kipling's "Lo, all our pomp of yesterday/Is one with Nineveh and Tyre."
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机译：您可能会说，保罗和安妮·埃里希（Paul and Anne Ehrlich）撰写的另一本关于环境，人口和消费以及人类如何严重破坏地球生命支持系统的书？ Ehrlichs能否为他们几十年来一直吹捧的危机提供新的和不同的东西？好吧，他们肯定会在这本最新书中做到这一点，其中充满了开拓性的分析和创新的见解。该书的最初目的是根据政治狂妄和公民的近视造成的环境破坏来呈现我们的困境，这种破坏已经超越了古老的亚述首都尼尼微。卢德亚德·吉卜林（Rudyard Kipling）的诗句“ Lo，我们昨日的盛况/与尼尼微（Nineveh）和泰尔（Tyre）在一起，就是诗意地体现了这场灾难。”
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