血液流盡当20世纪30年代的大问题刚刚勉强得到控制，新的问题又出现了——富足社会中出现的崭新问题，如种族平等，保证城市环境适于居住，应付各种陌生伪装下的战争等等。
As the big problems of the thirties were brought under some kind of rough control, new problems took their place – the unprecedented problems of an, affluent society, of racial justice, of keeping our cities from becoming uninhabitable, of coping with war in unfamiliar guises.
最令人不安的是我们发现了人口爆炸这一问题。
Most disturbing of all was our discovery of the population explosion.
我们突然意识到我们这艘载人小飞船上的乘客数目大约每40年翻一倍。
It dawned on us rather suddenly that the number of passengers on the small spaceship we inhabit is doubling about every forty years.
只要地球上的人口持续地按这个可怕的速度增长，其他所有问题都将无法解决。
So long as the earth‘s population keeps growing at this cancerous rate, all of the other problems appear virtually insoluble.
我们的城市会变得越来越拥挤，景色会变得更加杂乱，空气和水也会变得愈发肮脏。
Our cities will continue to become more crowded and noisome. The landscape will get more cluttered, the air and water even dirtier.
所有人的生活质量都会不断恶化。
The quality of life is likely to become steadily worse for everybody.
如果过多的人必须为了争夺日益减少的食物份额和生存空间而争斗的话，战争的升级看来是无法避免的。
And warfare on a rising scale seems inevitable if too many bodies have to struggle for ever-dwindling shares of food and living space.
因此吉姆?宾司这代人要承担一项艰巨的任务。
