If a third runway is built at Heathrow, what will be the impact(影响，冲击) on the wealth of the nation(国家财富)? It will cost us somewhere between £23.4bn and £62.5bn. These are not my figures; they weren’t calculated by environmental groups, but by the Department for Transport(英国交通部).
如果在希思罗修建第三条跑道，会对国家财富产生什么影响？它将让我们付出234亿至625亿英镑的代价。这些数字不是我说的，也不是环保组织算出来的，而是交通部自己算出来的。
For decades, government ministers have told us that airport expansion is essential for “growth”. As chancellor(财政大臣), Rachel Reeves claimed that a third runway at Heathrow would add 0.43% to GDP, figures we later discovered came from a report commissioned by(受委托的) the airport. The transport department’s own analysis concluded that the real addition to GDP would be between 0.03% and 0.05%: eight to 14 times less. Against this, it weighed the social and environmental costs of the project, to reveal a massive net loss.(与此相对，它权衡了项目的社会和环境成本，结果揭示出巨大的净损失。) It found that a third runway would cause major harm to the health and wellbeing(福祉，健康幸福) of up to 3 million local people.
几十年来，政府大臣们一直告诉我们，机场扩建对“增长”至关重要。时任财政大臣蕾切尔·里夫斯声称，希思罗第三条跑道将为GDP增加0.43%，后来我们发现这个数字来自机场委托的一份报告。而交通部自己的分析得出结论：对GDP的真实贡献将在0.03%至0.05%之间，比前者少了八到十四倍。交通部还权衡了项目的社会和环境成本，结果揭示出巨大的净损失。它发现，第三条跑道将严重危害多达300万当地居民的健康和福祉。
But even these figures don’t capture it(反映全貌). The climate breakdown caused by the runway affects the entire planet, yet the costs to other countries aren’t counted.(跑道造成的气候崩溃影响整个地球，而其他国家的代价却没有被计算在内。) So again we must ask, why does the government support it?
但即便是这些数字也无法反映全貌。跑道造成的气候崩溃影响整个地球，而其他国家的代价却没有被计算在内。所以我们不得不再次发问：政府为什么支持它？