此外，即使人口红利消失，其承载力（环境可以维持的人口规模）正在耗竭 — — 显然高污染进一步加剧了这一状况。
Moreover, even as the country’s demographic dividend dissolves, its carrying capacity (the size of the population the environment can sustain) is being exhausted – a situation that high levels of pollution are certainly not helping.