"Ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet, the debate will begin now."

As the presiding officer of the meeting, Zhang Mingyuan solemnly announced on the rostrum, and the entire conference hall suddenly fell silent.

The fact that the Chairman of the coalition Government has appointed his own Secretary-General to preside over the meeting shows the importance he attaches to the meeting.

"Please speak freely on both sides." Zhang Mingyuan said, and quickly glanced at the audience.

There were quite a few people here today, and the entire conference hall was crowded.

The conference hall was quiet, and the shutter of the camera "click" was particularly harsh.

The participants looked at the six people in the speaking area on the stage, some of them were a little nervous because they understood the importance of the meeting, and some of them were purely here to see the excitement.

Zhang Tianlin looked around the conference hall, and finally looked at the speaking area opposite, and swept over the faces of Williams, Ye Guangli, and Zheng Dashen one by one.

In the end, his gaze stayed on Williams, coughed lightly, and said with a smile: "This debate was initiated by Williams, the president of the Military Research Institute, or should he make a statement first." ”

As he spoke, he opened the glass and took a sip.

"Please, Dean Williams."

Williams gently lifted the microphone in front of him, a habit he had for many years and one of the traces left by his military life: rigorous and meticulous.

Even after becoming the head of a high-ranking military research institute, this habit was maintained.

"Welcome people from all walks of life, as a soldier, I won't beat around the bush."

Williams likes to go straight.

"As we all know, human society is currently in the stage of heyday development, and the degree of development of science and technology is also incomparable at any stage. Today, I can proudly say that the earth's civilization has reached unprecedented heights! Do you agree? ”

Williams said with his arms raised, excited.

"Agreed!"

There was a shout from the audience, followed by a tidal wave of applause.

"Raise first and then suppress, a clever means." Zhang Tianlin thought silently.

"Of course, human beings can have such high achievements, which is inseparable from the efforts of everyone here, and it is also inseparable from the hard work of any one person."

Williams was in high spirits, but then suddenly became serious, and his words changed: "It is an eternal truth that you get what you give." However, there is a price to be paid for such an achievement. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is said in the Bible, 'When God closes this door, he will surely open another door for you.'" And I would say the opposite, when humans open one door, there must be others that close. Moreover, there is more than one one closed. ”

The crowd stirred and began to whisper.

"I said that I didn't go around the bend, this foreshadowing is really long enough, and it's still that set of rhetoric." Zhang Tianlin thought disdainfully.

For the most part, Zhang Tianlin hated this Englishman.

The consistent military style is extremely difficult to get along with, and arrogant to death.

However, sometimes I admire him from the bottom of my heart, admire his cool head and long-term vision.

In addition, Williams is good at using very simple theories to arouse the emotions of others, so as to be convincing step by step.

"It's starting to work." Williams thought to himself.

"The 'doors' that God has opened for us are the rapid progress of human civilization, and there are too many 'doors' that have been closed for us. Like resource consumption, environmental pollution, ecological destruction, and so on. Any one of them has already affected the survival of mankind. In this case, in less than a hundred years, humanity will come to an end! ”

"Excuse me, Dean Williams, but let me interrupt, have you expanded some of the rhetoric?" Zhou Ran retorted softly.

As a professor of ecology, Zhou Ran has just turned 40 this year, and it is also the year he was promoted from associate professor to professor, which undoubtedly proves his outstanding contributions to the field of ecology.

After years of research, Zhou Ran has created his own unique research system, and it is very perfect.

From the small environment of biological individuals and environmental influences, to the large environment of the relationship between organisms and the environment at different levels of the ecosystem, there are relatively sufficient theories and convincing experimental data.

These are enough to give him a great voice in the field of ecology.

Therefore, when everyone heard Zhou Ran speak, they all focused on it, wanting to see how the two sides were fighting.

"Oh, Professor Zhou is an expert in ecology, let's listen to Gao's theory, hehe." Williams said with a smile.

I thought that Zhou Ran would be humble, but I didn't expect him to just nod and say with a smile: "Dean Williams's speech is very good for the atmosphere, and I think everyone has felt it, it's like a speech." ”

There was a burst of laughter from the audience.

"However, as a professor of ecology, I can tell Dean Williams and everyone in the meeting in charge," Zhou Ran looked at the audience, and finally his gaze stayed on Williams, "It is an exaggeration to say that mankind is only a hundred years away from extinction, and it can even be said to be alarmist." ”

"I personally fully agree with what Dean Williams said about the tremendous progress that humanity has made and the state of society today. Of course, this is also obvious to all. ”

"The progress of society and the development of science and technology will naturally consume resources, and with the increase of population, resource consumption will inevitably intensify."

"So, Professor Zhou agrees with me?" Williams interjected.

"Definitely."

Zhou Ran resolutely objected.

"We know that the coalition government was aware of the problem of resources decades ago and has responded to it. It mainly focuses on two aspects, one is to increase efforts in the research and development of new energy, and the other is to improve the utilization rate and reuse rate of existing resources, and has achieved great results. At the same time, the coalition government is gradually curbing population growth. ”

"Although the earth's resources are being depleted day by day, they are still within the control of human beings, let alone a hundred years, and another five hundred years will be fine. And, in 500 years, there will be more renewable energy, and the planet will only get better and better. ”

"And not like Dean Williams said."

As soon as the words ended, applause erupted, and it seemed that people were still more hopeful for a better future.

Williams smiled and looked at a young man beside him.

His name is Zheng Dashen, he is 38 years old Chinese New Year's Eve, and he is also an ecological expert.

He is Zhou Ran's colleague and is also quite prestigious in the field of ecology, but his views are a little radical, so he is an old rival with Zhou Ran.

Zheng Dashen had long been dissatisfied with Zhou Ran's point of view, and when he saw Williams signaling, when the applause gradually died out, he said in a high-pitched voice: "As a colleague of Professor Zhou, I know him very well, and I think his views are too conservative to see the real crisis of the earth." ”

"If I say that, Professor Zhou won't be upset, right?" Zheng Dashen smiled after speaking.

"I want to hear about it." Zhou Ran said coldly.

"As we all know, it has been about 400 years since the footsteps of the first industrial revolution. At this stage, human society is developing rapidly. But since the Industrial Revolution, the earth's resources and environment have begun to be destroyed. In terms of energy, the world's total coal has fallen sharply, as well as fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas. In terms of the environment, emissions of harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and frion have increased dramatically. ”

"In addition, due to the large-scale construction of factories and the increase of production land, the biological chain has been destroyed, and a large number of animals have become extinct or on the verge of extinction." Zheng Dashen's generous statement seemed painful, "These are ironclad evidence, and we should reflect on them today!" ”

"It seems that Professor Zheng knows a lot about history, so he must have done a lot of homework."

Zhou Ran said something jokingly, and laughter came from the audience.

"History cannot be ignored!" Zheng Dashen emphasized.

"Please continue."

"Britain was the first country in the world to have an industrial revolution, and we have always spoken highly of it in the past. However, from the perspective of ecological environment, the industrial revolution caused the first large-scale environmental pollution in human history. Later, after long-term and unremitting environmental treatment, the situation of environmental pollution was improved. ”

"Everybody knows the history of the Industrial Revolution alone that had such a big impact on the environment and resources. Then, the extent of the damage to the earth caused by the development of human beings in the past 400 years can be imagined. Especially in the last century, mankind has entered a stage of high-tech development, and the consumption of resources is immeasurable every year, monthly, and even weekly. Even if the coalition government responds, it will be a drop in the bucket and will not hide the fact that the earth's resources are almost depleted! ”

Zheng Dashen thundered on the ground, and the conference hall boiled over.

The media seemed to smell the prey, and the "click" shutter sounded non-stop, and they all wanted to release the news first-hand.

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