pollution and environmental degradation

基本解释

Challenges such as pollution and environmental degradation;
污染和环境恶化；
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We expect our prime minister to recognise that the poor are victims of pollution and environmental degradation - not its cause.
希望总理能意识到穷人是作为环境污染和恶化的受害者，而不是环境破坏者。
About half of the world's population lives in urban areas. By 2030, it will be 60 percent and, by 2050, 70 percent. The results will be more congestion, pollution and environmental degradation.
全世界大约有一半的人口居住在市区，到2030年，这个数字会刷新到60%，到2050年，则升至70%，造成的直接后果是更多的交通堵塞、污染和环境的恶化。

At the same time, they are aware of the downside of the Chinese model of economic development, which promises fast economic growth, but more often than not, at the price of environmental degradation and pollution, not to mention other social problems.
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To economists, pollution gets out of hand because the prices of goods and services do not reflect the costs of environmental degradation.
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