It has become a truism, buttressed by the hard realities of economic performance, that the 21st century will belong to Asia. But there is a big problem to overcome first, and it is not the flashpoints in North Korea, the Taiwan Straits and Kashmir. It is the region's dangerous pace of population growth, and the health, environmental and security problems caused by urbanisation on a scale unique in human history.
21世紀將屬于亞洲，這已成為老生常談，經濟表現的現實支持著這種說法。但亞洲首先需要解決一個很大的問題，而這并非朝鮮、臺灣海峽、克什米爾一觸即發的危險態勢，而是該地區危險的人口增長速度、以及人類歷史上罕見規模的城市化所引發的健康、環境和安全問題。
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