With some of the most productive agricultural land in the world, the population used to be spread across rural areas.

由于拥有世界上最肥沃的农田，在过去中国人口大部分遍布在农村地区。

Highly productive lands can then be made available to grow healthy new forests.

然后空出极为肥沃的土地种植茁壮的新林。

This unique farm is just one example of a burgeoning industry known as agrivoltaics -- placing solar panels on productive agricultural land.

这个独特的农场是蓬勃发展的“农业光伏”产业的一个样本，而该产业就是在生产性农业土地上安装太阳能板。

The footprint approach does the reverse, comparing humanity's ecological impact-resources consumed and waste produced-with the amount of productive land and water available to supply key ecosystem services.

而“生态足迹”方法正好相反，它将人类对生态的影响——所消耗的资源和产生的废弃物——与现有的能提供关键生态系统服务的生产性土地和水的数量进行对比。

And without any productive land to grow food on or to sustain a decent life, a spiraling cycle of even worse poverty than the Sahel currently experiences will quickly emerge.

如果没有肥沃的土地种植粮食或维持体面的生活，比萨赫勒地区目前经历的更严重的贫困螺旋式循环将很快出现。

It factors in all the resources we consume and the waste we generate, then equates this to the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to support those activities.

它考虑了我们消耗的所有资源和我们产生的废物，然后将其等同于支持这些活动所需的生物生产力土地和水的数量。

This is merely the financial measure of progress; the genuine achievements of McCormick's invention are millions of acres of productive land and a farming population which is without parallel elsewhere for its prosperity, intelligence, manfulness, and general contentment.

这只是进步的财务衡量标准；麦考密克发明的真正成就是数百万英亩的肥沃土地和农业人口，其繁荣、智慧、男子气概和普遍满足感是其他任何地方都无法比拟的。