污染是我们为这个人口过剩、过度工业化的星球所付出的代价。
Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, overindustrialized planet.
仔细想想，处理垃圾的方法其实只有四种：丢掉它、烧掉它、把它变成可以再利用的东西，或者尽量少产生垃圾。
When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish: dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it.
我们一直在尝试这四种方法，但我们在全球范围内产生的庞大垃圾量正威胁着要将我们淹没。
We keep trying all four methods, but sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.
然而，垃圾不过是污染我们星球这一问题的一部分。
Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet.
生产不断增加的廉价食品的需求，导致了另一种不同类型的污染。
The need to produce ever increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution.
工业化的农业生产方式生产出廉价的肉类产品：牛肉、猪肉和鸡肉。
Industrialized farming methods produce cheap meat products: beef, pork and chicken.
农药和化肥的使用生产出了廉价的粮食和蔬菜。
The use of pesticides and fertilizers produces cheap grain and vegetables.
我们为廉价食品所付出的代价可能已经过于高昂了：牛群中的疯牛病（BSE）、鸡肉和鸡蛋中的沙门氏菌，以及乳制品中的李斯特菌。
The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high: Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in cattle, salmonella in chicken and eggs, and listeria in dairy products.
而如果你打算放弃肉食、成为一个素食者，你面对的选择也不过是：要么花高价购买有机蔬菜，要么每次以为自己在享用新鲜沙拉、蔬菜或纯净一杯水时，实际上却在稳定地摄入农药！
And if you think you'll abandon meat and become a vegetarian, you have the choice of very expensive organically-grown vegetables or a steady diet of pesticides every time you think you're eating fresh salads and vegetables, or just having an innocent glass of water!
然而，有一种更为潜伏隐蔽的污染，它尤其侵扰城市地区并渗透进我们的日常生活——那就是噪音。
However, there is an even more insidious kind of pollution that particularly affects urban areas and invades our daily lives, and that is noise.
防盗警报随时随地响起，不分白天黑夜，结果只是惹恼路人，实际上反倒帮了小偷的忙。
Burglar alarms going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle.
汽车警报在街头不断对我们嘶吼，是一种令人深感烦躁的噪音来源。
Car alarms constantly scream at us in the street and are a source of profound irritation.
一项关于噪音影响的近期调查显示（出人意料地？），夜间不停狂吠的狗在1到7的评分范围内，被评为噪音污染程度最高的形式。
A recent survey of the effects of noise revealed (surprisingly?) that dogs barking incessantly in the night rated the highest form of noise pollution on a scale ranging from 1 to 7.
这项调查揭示了大量我们真正厌恶的噪音来源。
The survey revealed a large number of sources of noise that we really dislike.
夏日里嗡嗡作响的草坪割草机，公寓楼里的深夜派对，嘈杂的邻居，各式各样的车辆——尤其是轰隆穿过宁静村庄的大型集装箱货车，飞越头顶的飞机和直升机，在公共场所四处携带、开至最大音量的大型收音机。
Lawn mowers whining on a summer's day, late-night parties in apartment blocks, noisy neighbours, vehicles of all kinds, especially large container trucks thundering through quiet villages, planes and helicopters flying overhead, large radios carried round in public places and played at maximum volume.
新技术也为噪音作出了它自己的"贡献"。
New technology has also made its own contribution to noise.
很多人反对手机，尤其是当手机在餐厅或公共交通等公共场所使用时。
A lot of people object to mobile phones, especially when they are used in public places like restaurants or on public transport.
手机上的大声通话侵扰我们的思绪，或者打断了我们与朋友安静交谈的乐趣。
Loud conversations on mobile phones invade our thoughts or interrupt the pleasure of meeting friends for a quiet chat.
这项噪音污染调查揭示了一个颇为出人意料、也可能令人忍俊不禁的老式噪音来源。
The noise pollution survey revealed a rather surprising and possibly amusing old-fashioned source of noise.
结果竟然是打鼾！而男性被发现是最严重的"罪魁祸首"。
It turned out to be snoring! Men were found to be the worst offenders.
调查显示，三十多岁中期的男性中有20%会打鼾。
It was revealed that 20% of men in their mid-thirties snore.
这一数字上升到令人瞠目结舌的60%——在六十多岁的男性中。
This figure rises to a staggering 60% of men in their sixties.
与这些数字相对照，调查发现只有5%的女性会规律性打鼾，而其余女性则不断被她们"号角齐鸣"的伴侣吵醒，或难以入眠。
Against these figures, it was found that only 5% of women snore regularly, while the rest are constantly woken or kept awake by their trumpeting partners.
无论噪音来自何处，有一件事是确定的：寂静，看来，已经成了一段珍贵的回忆。
Whatever the source of noise, one thing is certain: silence, it seems, has become a golden memory.