你好，这是一个很棒的努力。我祝你们把这一项目办好，祝你们好运。我们全球的年轻人应该行动起来，来作出应有的改变。印度哥印拜陀的N.P. Radakrishnan

Dear Sir,

This is fantastic endeavour. I am wishing you best of luck with this enterprise. Young peoples around the world must take it upon ourselves to be the change we want to see.

Yours,

N.P. Radakrishnan
Coimbatore, India

好吧, 就说: 所谓“可持续的消耗”是真的存在吗? 要我们削减消耗,那不是一件残忍的事实吗 (这是一件商业或者政府都不能应对的讨论事项)? SL

Well, to start with: is there really such thing as 'sustainable consumption'? Isn't the painful truth that we need to reduce our consumption (something business or government cannot handle us discussing)?
SL

酷冷生活论坛是个很棒的主意。作为你们这样杰出而创新的网站的忠实读者，我期待着这个新的辩论。不论我们生活在这个世界的任何地方，气候变化将会成为今天我们这一代年轻人生活中的重要因素之一。我们的付出和想法对于寻求怎样减小全球变暖带来的潜在破坏性影响的答案将会至关重要。所以，让我们现在行动起来。中国，你会怎么说呢？日益严重的气候变化将在我们的监控之下。---- Matthew

The Cooler Living forum is a great idea. As a regular reader of your excellent and innovative website, I look forward to the new debate. Climate change will be a major factor in the lives of we young people today, wherever we live in the world. Our input and ideas will be vital in the search for answers to how to reduce the potentially devastating impact of global warming. So, let's get started now. What do you say, China? The worst of climate change will come on our watch. -- Matthew

不要再买新鞋，ipod，手机了，也不要动不动就开车了。无论是美国人，英国人，还是中国人，大家都没有权力这样消费！

Stop buying new shoes, ipods, cellphones, and stop driving so much. Americans, Brits, Chinese - you do not have a right to consume!

作为一个年轻人，我感到要成为一个“可持续发展型消费者“我们面临更艰难的挑战。广告和名人效应无时无刻不在影响着我们，并鼓励我们消费更多。谁会跟用说“不”来装酷呢？

nico

as a young person myself, i feel that we face an uphill struggle to become 'sustainable consumers' - we are encouraged by advertising and by celebrities to want more of everything all the time. who is going to make it 'cool' to say no??

-nico

我觉得每个人都有权利消费，这些消费也包括基本的食物和庇护所。这种消费是无论如何都应该受到保护的。但是我们没有权力去过度消费，这对于任何人来说都一样。我觉得还是不该到处跟别人说不应该买新鞋，尤其是当他们确实需要的时候。

SL

I think we have all have a right to consume. After all, this encompasses our rights to food and shelter, which should be protected at all costs. But we do not have a right to consume excessively, regardless of who we are. And this can be regarded as universal. I don't think we'll get anywhere telling people they can't buy new shoes, when they actually need them... SL

很有意思！但那种想拿九成新的跑鞋换Nike全新跑鞋的人们是不管怎样也不会关心环境的。在我学校里这样的人一抓一大把；他们自认为很酷，但是他们一点也不。

我怎样才能让他们相信他们不再需要另一双新跑鞋呢？

JC,加州奥克兰

Very interesting! But the kind of people who want to throw away their nearly-new sneakers in exchange for the BRAND NEW Nike sneakers don't care about the environment anyway. There are loads of people like this at my school; they think they are cool but they are definitely not.

How am I supposed to persuade them they don't need ANOTHER new pair of sneakers?

JC, Oakland CA

加州奥克兰的JC是对的。这类消费是明星们能为接收力强的年轻人树立良好榜样的一个领域。我们已经多少次读到运动员们每场比赛换双新鞋的故事了（例如某些大名鼎鼎的职业足球运动员）？我们不要忘记亚洲工人们（经常包括童工）为生产这双昂贵的名牌的鞋劳动时所处的严酷环境。

——Matthew

JC of Oakland CA is right. This kind of consumption is one area in which celebrities could set a conscionable example for impressionable young people. How often have we read of athletes (such as some big-name professional football players) who wear a new pair of shoes for each match? And let's not forget the grim conditions in which some Asian workers (often including children) have laboured to manufacture this expensive, brand-name footwear. -- Matthew

购物是政治，而且用钱包投票近来很热。问题是最有名的那些“绿色”企业造成了最大危害，所以能不能贴一个环境友好企业（非公关意义上的）的名单？多谢

Shopping is politics and voting with your wallet very high on the agenda these days. The problem is that the most famous 'green' companies do most of the damage so could you publish a list of companies that are environmentally friendly (not in PR terms)?

Thanks