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But all is not as rosy as eco-modernism would like us to believe.
但一切并不像生态现代主义希望我们相信的那样美好。
As writer and farmer Chris Smaje notes in a critique of eco-modernism, "two hundred years ago the global human population was around a billion; today, it's seven billion and counting, but a billion are clinically undernourished --as many as existed two hundred years previously.
正如作家和农民Chris Smaje在对生态现代主义的批判中指出的那样，“两百年前，全球人类人口约为10亿；今天，是70亿，而且还在增加，但有10亿人处于临床营养不良状态——与两百年前的人数一样。
Is that flourishing?"
那是繁荣吗？”
He then goes on to point out that inequality is rarely mentioned in an eco-modernist world.
他接着指出，在生态现代主义的世界里，不平等现象很少被提及。
Life expectancy may have risen, but if you dig into the data most of that rise is due to a decrease in child and infant mortality.
预期寿命可能已经上升，但如果你挖掘数据，大部分的上升是由于儿童和婴儿死亡率的下降。
In addition there are still vast differences in life expectancies even within the imperial core.
此外，即使在帝国的核心地区，预期寿命仍然存在巨大差异。
In the US, the average life-expectancy of one of the richest neighborhoods in Boston, Back Bay, is 91.9 years old, while four miles away in Roxbury, a predominantly poor neighborhood, life expectancy is 58.9 years old.
在美国，波士顿最富有的社区之一后湾的平均预期寿命是91.9岁，而在四英里外的罗克斯伯里，一个以贫穷为主的社区，预期寿命是58.9岁。
Modernization has lifted some ships and left others to drown, because modernization, with its reliance on technological innovation and the relentless churn of capitalism, needs to push on the throats of the many in order for the few to enjoy the fruits of so-called progress.
现代化抬起了一些船，却让另一些船被淹没，因为现代化对技术创新的依赖和资本主义的无情搅动，需要损害许多人的利益，以便少数人享受所谓的进步成果。
Our shirts are cheap because of certain technological advancements, yes, but they are also cheap because of flagrant worker and environmental exploitation in countries in the periphery.
我们的衬衫之所以便宜，是因为某些技术进步，是的，但它们也因为外围国家公然的工人和环境剥削而变得便宜。
From life-threatening mining practices that pull raw materials out of the ground for assembly line machines to inhumane work conditions in sweatshops all the way back to the genesis of settler colonialism and chattel slavery, the road to progress is far from pristine.
从威胁生命的采矿做法，将原材料从地下拉出来供流水线机器使用，到血汗工厂的非人道工作条件，一直到定居者殖民主义和动产奴隶制的起源，进步之路远非纯洁。
It's built on a foundation of inequality and unequal exchange.
它建立在不平等和不平等交换的基础上。
Modernization is not the force for good that eco-modernists want to believe it is, yet on this shaky foundation they argue for the environmentally dubious idea of decoupling that could mean locking in catastrophic climate change for decades if we are not careful.
现代化并不是生态现代主义者想要相信的好的力量，然而在这个不稳定的基础上，他们主张脱钩的环境可疑的想法，如果我们不小心，这可能意味着在几十年内锁定灾难性的气候变化。
While eco-modernists praise the technological advancements of the last two centuries as saviors from the dark ages of primitivism, they also recognize the toll that mechanization, fossil fuels, synthetic fertilizers and other inventions have had on the environment.
脱钩的神话 虽然生态现代主义者称赞过去两个世纪的技术进步是原始主义黑暗时代的救星，但他们也承认机械化、化石燃料、合成肥料和其他发明对环境造成的损失。
The solution for an eco-modernist, however, is not to recognize the destructive underside of the march of technologies, consumption, capitalism or intensification, but instead to do more of the same but better.
然而，生态现代主义者的解决方案不是承认技术、消费、资本主义或集约化进程的破坏性，而是做更多相同但更好的事。
This is a fundamental tenet of ecomodernist thought.
这是生态现代主义思想的一个基本原则。
The climate crisis can be solved with "modern technologies, that use natural ecosystem flows and services more efficiently, offering a real chance of reducing the totality of human impacts on the biosphere."
气候危机可以通过“现代技术来解决，更有效地利用自然生态系统的流动和服务，提供一个真正的机会来减少人类对生物圈的全部影响”。
In short, ecomodernist solutions rely heavily on using technology to separate humanity from any impact they might have on the natural world.
简而言之，生态现代主义的解决方案在很大程度上依赖于利用技术将人类与他们可能对自然世界产生的任何影响分开。
But there are a number of problems with this separation, also known as decoupling. Most importantly, it doesn't work.
但是脱钩有很多问题。最重要的是，它不起作用。
In the Ecomodernist Manifesto the authors point towards the slow decarbonization of rich nations over the "last three centuries" as an indicator that separating emissions from economic growth is possible.
在《经济现代主义宣言》中，作者指出富国在“过去三个世纪”中缓慢的去碳化是一个指标，表明将排放与经济增长分开是可能的。
Unfortunately the decarbonization they point to is merely a trick of the numbers.
不幸的是，他们指出的去碳化只是数字上的一种欺骗。
