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                                  Too late—Nowhere to Escape

In this picture, two men are depicted as inside a physical environment which looks like a coal mine, one is working with great zeal in order to produce a large quantity of coal that can bring a lot of money in this age of energy crisis. The other man is searching for an environment with a powerful telescope, which can look into great distances.

The intended meaning of the picture is that people are totally unaware of the extent of the seriousness of the environmental situation we are in. Due to unchecked exploitation of natural resources, our environment has been destroyed to an alarming extent. The man with the telescope cannot even stand upright, symbolizing how the physical space for human existence has shrunk. There are several fissures over the heads of those two men, symbolizing that there will soon be a devastating collapse, a doomsday for those two men who symbolize all human beings.

Human beings are now definitely trapped in a dilemma—the need to pursue economic development and the need to find an inhabitable environment. The only way out of this dilemma is that we should stop destroying our environment like the workman, who is digging his own “tomb”. In addition, we should take immediate and concrete actions to protect and preserve our environment, which is right in front of us or around us. We should not be like the man with the telescope looking for an environment elsewhere. What really matters is to protect environment we already have and to restore it if it has been damaged, instead of escaping to somewhere else. Otherwise, it will be too late because, with every beautiful environment being savagely destroyed, there will be nowhere to escape.

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             美好环境 何处寻觅？

        本图所刻画的是两个男子，正置身于某个视若煤矿的物质环境中，一个正在十分起劲地干活，要生产大量的煤，以便在这个能源危机的时代，大发一笔横财。另一个男子则手持一个大功率的、可以眺望远处的望远镜，正努力寻找一片可以栖身的新环境。

        本图所隐含的意义在于，人们根本没有意识到，我们所处的环境形势已经达到了多么严峻的地步。由于对自然资源毫无节制的开发，我们的环境已惨遭摧残，其程度令人震惊。手持望远镜的那个男子甚至无法站直身子，象征着人类生存的物质空间已被压缩到何种地步。这二位男子的头顶上方，出现了数个裂缝，象征着不久的未来，将会发生一场毁灭性的崩塌事件，对于那两个代表着全人类的男子来说，将会是人类的末日。

        对于人类而言，现在他们已经被实实在在地囚禁在某种困境之中，一方面需要追求经济发展，另一方面需要去寻找一个可以居住的环境。挣脱这一困境的唯一方法，就是我们必须立刻停止像那个工人一样去毁坏我们的环境。那个工人所挖的，正是自己的“坟墓”。此外，我们应该立刻采取切实的行动，来保护并保存我们眼前触手可及的环境。我们不应该成为那个手持望远镜的男子，企图另觅一个环境。于我们而言，真正重要的是要好好保护我们业已拥有的环境；如果它遭到了破坏，就必须设法将它恢复，而不是逃亡他处。否则，一切终将为时已晚，因为伴随着一个又一个美丽的环境遭到野蛮性的毁坏，我们将无处可遁。