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SEIZING A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY 中国的伟大机会 John B. Cobb, Jr. [美] 小约翰·柯布 ( 美国国家人文科学院院士 中美现代发展研究院院长) • I am grateful for this chance to express my very deep concern about the decisions China is making with respect to agriculture and rural development. I look to China with hope that it may lead the world toward ecological civilization. But I greatly fear that China may make a fateful decision about agriculture and rural development that will preclude any possibility of itself becoming an ecological civilization. I desperately hope that China’s commitment to becoming an ecological civilization will override its commitment to rapid modernization. If it makes that choice, it may yet lead the world, indeed, save it. • 中国当前的农业决策和关于农村发展的决定，将是影响成千上万 中国人命运的决策，也是影响世界未来走向的决策。我衷心地希 望中国可以引领世界走向生态文明。中国政府对建设生态文明的 郑重承诺，以及在生态文明建设上所取得的成就，我为之感奋， 但同时也非常担心中国做出的农业和农村发展决策，会阻碍中国 实现生态文明的可能性。我迫切希望中国对现代化的热衷让位于 对生态文明的建设。假如中国做出如此决策，她将领导世界，确 切地说，是拯救世界。 • In the literature of the ancient Hebrew people, Moses is the greatest hero. More than three thousand years ago, he led the ancient ancestors of the Jews out of slavery in Egypt and established them in the land we now call Israel/Palestine. As they prepared to settle, he laid before them two choices. One was to adopt the way of thought and life common to the peoples who lived all around them. That was the easy way, the way they would take if they made no collective decision to define their own future. But Moses told them that this was the choice of Death. And his judgment receives some support from the fact that none of these other people survived. •在希伯来人的文献中，摩西是最伟大的英雄。三千多年前，他带领 犹太人的祖先离开了埃及的奴隶制度，并将他们安置在现称之为以 色列或巴勒斯坦的土地上。在人们准备定居的时候，他给了他们两 个选择：一个是因循守旧，接受生活在他们身边的人们的思维方式 和生活方式。这