Life flourishes on planet Earth 生命在地球上繁衍生息
thanks to powerful natural forces. 感谢强大的自然力.
The weather gives us predictable patterns of rainfall. 天气给我们提供了可预测的降雨模式.
Sunlight delivers energy to all parts of planet Earth's surface. 太阳光把能量传递到地球表面的所有部分.
Ocean currents carry nutrients around the globe. 洋流把营养物质带到全球各地.
Volcanoes create and fertilise the land. 火山使土地肥沃.
Together,these forces have helped shape our living planet. 这些力量共同塑造了我们的星球.
But it's a fragile system. 但这是一个脆弱的体系.
All right,come on,let's get him in. 好吧,来吧,让他进来.
This baby elephant is dying of thirst. 这头小象渴死了.
Big swallow. 大燕子.
The latest casualty of our changing world. 我们不断变化的世界的最新牺牲品.
Luckily,rescuers have found him,so he has a chance. 幸运的是,救援人员找到了他,所以他有机会.
This young animal is likely a victim of a new force 这种小动物很可能是新势力的牺牲品
one so powerful,it threatens the future of life on Earth. 它如此强大,威胁着地球生命的未来.
For over 60 years,I've been privileged 60多年来,我一直享有特权
to witness the natural world in all its wonder. 见证自然界的奇迹.
But the planet I saw as a young man has changed beyond recognition. 但我年轻时看到的这个星球已经变得面目全非.
Human activity is now so dominant,it's disrupting the forces of nature 人类活动现在占据主导地位,它正在破坏自然的力量
and the vital habitats that life needs to survive on Earth. 以及生命在地球上生存所需的重要栖息地.
This is the most important story of our time. 这是我们这个时代最重要的故事.
So I've asked three world authorities from the front line 所以我问了三位来自前线的世界权威人士
to join me in telling it. 和我一起说.
Humans used to be a species,just like any other on Earth. 人类曾经是一个物种,就像地球上其他物种一样.
But we've now become so populous 但现在我们的人口太多了
and so destructive 如此具有破坏性
that we are the single most influential creature on Earth. 我们是地球上唯一最有影响力的生物.
Everything around us is collapsing. 我们周围的一切都在崩溃.
This is the planet that we're handing over to future generations, 这是我们要交给后代的星球,
and the worst part,I'll tell you the worst part,to me, 最糟糕的是,我会告诉你最糟糕的是,对我来说,
is that they're going to turn around and be,like, 他们会转过身来,
"Why did you not do something when you had the chance?" “你有机会为什么不做点什么？”
We are likely to lose over half the species of life on Earth 我们很可能会失去地球上一半以上的生命物种
over the next eight decades. 在接下来的80年里.
The last time we had an extinction event of this magnitude 上次我们有这么大的灭绝事件
was 65 million years ago. 是6500万年前的事了.
We are asleep. 我们睡着了.
We are not taking a look at the enormity of this event. 我们不是在看这一事件的严重性.
If you want evidence of how life is struggling to cope 如果你想知道生活是如何挣扎的
in our rapidly changing world 在我们瞬息万变的世界里
you need to look no further than here in Africa. 你只要看看非洲就行了.
As we warm the planet,we create more extreme droughts and floods, 随着地球变暖,我们制造了更多的极端干旱和洪水,
making it increasingly difficult for many animals to survive. 使许多动物越来越难以生存.
One of our planet's most magnificent creatures is no exception. 地球上最壮丽的生物之一也不例外.
Adult elephants drink around 200 litres of water a day. 成年大象每天喝大约200升水.
When rains fail,as they did recently here in Kenya, 就像最近在肯尼亚发生的那样,当雨停了,
watering holes quickly run dry 水坑很快就干涸了
killing hundreds of them. 杀了数百人.
You can see the scale of the problem 你可以看到问题的严重程度
by the dozens of orphaned baby elephants left behind. 被留下的几十只孤儿幼象.
These are the lucky survivors. 这些是幸运的幸存者.
They owe their lives to Angela Sheldrick 他们的生命都归功于安吉拉·谢尔德里克
and her team, 以及她的团队,
who rescue these young orphans. 他们拯救了这些年轻的孤儿.
Come on! Come on,little boy. 加油！来吧,小男孩.
The orphans,when we find them,tend to be in a pretty sorry state. 孤儿们,当我们找到他们时,往往处于一种非常遗憾的状态.
They are not only physically damaged but psychologically,too. 他们不仅在身体上受到了伤害,而且在心理上也受到了伤害.
Hey.Hello. 嘿.你好.
They have suffered such a loss,losing their elephant family, 他们遭受了巨大的损失,失去了他们的大象家庭,
their mothers. 他们的母亲.
Angela's team do their best to soothe that loss. 安吉拉的团队尽了最大的努力来减轻损失.
Come on. 来吧.
The keepers replace a lost elephant family. 饲养员们替换了一个丢失的大象家庭.
They provide the tender loving care and the nurturing 他们提供温柔的关爱和养育
that is so important for them to heal. 这对他们的康复非常重要.
The keepers are there 24/7. 饲养员全天候在那里.
It is a very,very special relationship 这是一段非常特别的关系
that actually does last a lifetime. 这确实会持续一生.
Despite the elephants becoming wild, 尽管大象变得狂野,
they do never forget that love and kindness. 他们永远不会忘记爱和善良.
The orphans have to be bottle-fed eight times a day. 这些孤儿一天得喂八次奶.
We raise these orphaned elephants to ultimately 我们把这些孤儿养大
go back to their birthright 回到他们与生俱来的权利
a wild and happy life. 狂野而快乐的生活.
You're such a clown! 你真是个小丑！
Hey! 嘿！
Come with me. 跟我来.
Go on.Go on. 去吧快点.走吧打开.
So far,Angela's organisation 到目前为止,安吉拉的组织
has released more than 150 orphaned elephants 已经释放了150多只孤儿大象
back into the wild. 回到野外.
But,to survive,they now need to live in managed reserves, 但是,为了生存,他们现在需要生活在有管理的保护区,
where people top up water supplies when droughts return. 当干旱再次来临时,人们会在那里补充水源.
Over the years,we've seen an enormous change in the weather patterns. 这些年来,我们看到了天气模式的巨大变化.
Greater unpredictability. 更大的不可预测性.
The drier seasons are drier and longer. 干燥的季节是干燥和更长.
It is the 11th hour now. 现在已经11点了.
We have just one home, 我们只有一个家,
and we,as the dominant species,should take care of it 作为优势物种,我们应该保护它
must take care of it. 一定要照顾好它.
It is our responsibility. 这是我们的责任.
What I need to say to people is,this is not going to get better. 我要告诉大家的是,情况不会好转的.
We are on a curve that's moving us with a series of events 我们正处在一条曲线上,这条曲线随着一系列事件而移动着我们
that's taking us into a new geological era in history. 这将把我们带入一个新的地质时代.
To understand how humans are destabilising our perfect planet, 为了了解人类是如何破坏我们完美星球的稳定,
we need to look into the deep past. 我们需要回顾过去.
In Earth's long history,it's been through at least five mass extinction events. 在地球漫长的历史中,它至少经历过五次大灭绝事件.
Most were caused by cataclysmic volcanic eruptions. 大多数是由灾难性的火山爆发引起的.
It's not the lava or ash that wiped out life 不是熔岩或火山灰毁灭了生命
but an invisible gas released by volcanoes 而是火山释放的一种无形气体
called carbon dioxide 叫做二氧化碳
CO2. 二氧化碳.
The single greatest extinction event on the planet so far was caused 迄今为止地球上最大的一次灭绝事件是由
by the superheating of the world. 由于世界的过热.
Masses of volcanic activity pumped huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, 大量的火山活动向大气中注入了大量的碳,
massively raised the global temperature, 全球气温大幅上升,
and saw the destruction of around 90% of all life on Earth. 目睹了地球上90%的生命被毁灭.
Humanity is now acting like a super-volcano. 人类现在就像一座超级火山.
We're releasing carbon dioxide at an even greater rate 我们正在以更高的速度释放二氧化碳
than the prehistoric mega-eruptions that extinguished life in the past. 比史前的大爆发更能消灭过去的生命.
Here's the problem. 问题来了.
Over the last two centuries, 在过去的两个世纪里,
we dug up the burial grounds of a previous geological era in history 我们挖掘了历史上一个地质时代的墓地
the Carboniferous era. 石炭纪.
And we took those dead remains,in the form of oil, 我们以石油的形式带走了那些尸体,
gas and coal,and we made 煤气和煤,我们制造了
the entire industrial civilisation based on these fossil fuels. 整个工业文明都是以这些化石燃料为基础的.
Almost every part of modern life depends on energy generated 几乎现代生活的每一部分都依赖于所产生的能量
by burning these fossil fuels. 通过燃烧这些化石燃料.
And that produces CO2 in huge amounts. 这会产生大量的二氧化碳.
Globally,we now release 100 times more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere 在全球范围内,我们现在向大气中排放的二氧化碳是现在的100倍
than all Earth's volcanoes combined. 比地球上所有的火山加起来还要多.
And by burning more fossil fuels,releasing more carbon dioxide, 燃烧更多的化石燃料,释放更多的二氧化碳,
heating up the world around us, 使我们周围的世界升温,
we have become one of the most powerful,destructive forces on the planet. 我们已经成为地球上最强大、最具破坏性的力量之一.
Carbon dioxide acts like a blanket, 二氧化碳就像毯子,
trapping the sun's heat. 吸收太阳的热量.
This raises the temperature 这会升高温度
and so destabilises one of the most important forces on Earth - 所以破坏了地球上最重要的力量之一-
the weather. 天气.
Many animals rely on predictable patterns of rainfall. 许多动物依赖可预测的降雨模式.
But,as our world warms,our weather is changing. 但是,随着世界变暖,我们的天气也在变化.
For every one degree that the temperature 温度每升高一度
goes up on this planet because of CO2 emissions 因为二氧化碳的排放
the atmosphere is sucking up 7% more water. 大气吸收了7%以上的水.
So we're getting more concentrated precipitation in the clouds 所以我们在云层中得到了更集中的降水
and more radical, 更激进的是,
extreme,unpredictable,out-of-control weather events. 极端、不可预测、失控的天气事件.
Millions are bracing 数以百万计的人正在振作起来
for a hurricane the likes of 像这样的飓风
which we've never seen. 我们从没见过.
We're getting hurricanes 我们有飓风了
that are devastating our ecosystems and killing human beings every year. 每年都在破坏我们的生态系统,杀害人类.
They're now over and over and over again every season. 他们现在每一季都一遍又一遍.
This planet is more powerful 这个星球更强大
than we thought. 比我们想象的要多.
More fires,more droughts,more floods. 更多的火灾,更多的干旱,更多的洪水.
And so this perfect planet of ours is now 所以我们这个完美的星球现在
being thrown into a system of flux. 被扔进一个不断变化的系统.
These extreme conditions are making it 这些极端的条件使
increasingly difficult for animals to survive. 动物生存越来越困难.
And that is not just affecting wildlife. 这不仅仅影响到野生动物.
New research suggests that, 新的研究表明,
for every one-degree rise in global temperatures, 全球气温每升高一度,
a billion people will be pushed into near unliveable extremes. 10亿人将被推向几乎无法暴露的极端.
And this could trigger one of the greatest human migrations in history. 这可能引发历史上最伟大的人类迁徙之一.
We're about to have climate refugees, 我们将有气候难民,
forced out of uninhabitable areas of the world, 被迫离开世界上不适宜居住的地区,
pushed up into Europe. 被推进欧洲.
We are on the cusp 我们正处在风口浪尖上
of the biggest migratory pattern 最大的迁徙模式
in human history. 在人类历史上.
We're going to see millions,tens of millions 我们将看到数百万,数千万
and,unfortunately,hundreds of millions of people 不幸的是,数亿人
migrating from areas that are no longer liveable 从不再适合居住的地区迁徙
in the next 20,30,40,50 and 60 years. 在接下来的20年,30年,40年,50年和60年里.
And people are frightened 人们都很害怕
because this is outside of our frame of reference. 因为这超出了我们的范围.
But there is hope. 但还是有希望的.
In Africa,the Sahara Desert is advancing southwards. 在非洲,撒哈拉沙漠正在向南推进.
But a remarkable project is aiming to stop it in its tracks. 但一个了不起的项目正致力于阻止它步入正轨.
The ambitious goal 雄心勃勃的目标
is to plant over one billion drought-resistant trees, 种植10多亿棵抗旱树,
like acacias. 像相思树.
Known as the Great Green Wall, 被称为绿色长城,
once complete,a band of trees will stretch nearly 5,000 miles 一旦建成,一条林带将延伸近5000英里
right across Africa 就在整个非洲
one of the largest living structures on the planet. 地球上最大的生物结构之一.
These trees stop topsoil blowing away, 这些树阻止表层土被吹走,
and their roots penetrate the ground, 它们的根穿透地面,
creating a network of channels 创建渠道网络
that store water whenever rain falls. 一下雨就储水.
Ten-year-old Korka is one of the first children to benefit. 10岁的科尔卡是首批受益的儿童之一.
12 million trees have already been planted here in Senegal, 塞内加尔已经种植了1200万棵树,
and with dramatic results. 结果非常惊人.
Wells are filling again,allowing crops to grow. 井又满了,庄稼得以生长.
So far,only 15% of the Green Wall is complete, 到目前为止,绿墙只完成了15%,
but it's already breathing life back into the land, 但它已经把生命重新注入土地,
stemming the exodus of people 阻止人口外流
and keeping communities together. 保持社区团结.
And the trees do something else for our children's future. 树木为我们孩子的未来做了些别的事情.
As they grow, 随着它们的成长,
they remove carbon dioxide from the air. 它们去除空气中的二氧化碳.
Carbon is the very foundation of life. 碳是生命的基础.
Every plant absorbs it from the air 每株植物都从空气中吸收它
using it to grow. 用它来成长.
When animals eat these plants, 当动物吃这些植物时,
some of this carbon is locked away in the fabric of their bodies. 一些碳被锁在他们身体的纤维里.
Together,these wild places, 一起,这些荒野的地方,
and the animals that allow them to thrive, 以及让它们茁壮成长的动物,
take up over a third of the carbon dioxide we release. 吸收我们释放的二氧化碳的三分之一以上.
All of these systems,and the life within it, 所有这些系统,以及其中的生命,
are so important to protect us 对保护我们很重要
from a warming planet. 来自一个正在变暖的星球.
Some of the Earth's most important carbon stores 地球上最重要的碳储存
are those rich in plant and animal species - 那些植物和动物种类丰富吗-
the tropical jungles. 热带丛林.
Forests are sponges. 森林是海绵.
They absorb enormous amounts of CO2 它们吸收大量的二氧化碳
from the atmosphere,and they trap that inside. 从大气中,他们把它困在里面.
Forests are about much more than just trees. 森林不仅仅是树木.
In order to thrive,a jungle needs bustling animal communities. 为了茁壮成长,丛林需要热闹的动物群落.
It needs insects to pollinate. 它需要昆虫来授粉.
It needs mammals to spread the seeds 它需要哺乳动物来传播种子
from one part of the forest to another. 从森林的一部分到另一部分.
It needs this massive,tangled web of species interactions. 它需要这个庞大的、错综复杂的物种互动网络.
A jungle rich in animals 动物丰富的丛林
stores so much more carbon than a forest with little life. 比没有生命的森林储存更多的碳.
But many of the world's tropical jungles are under threat. 但世界上许多热带丛林正受到威胁.
And none more so than the greatest of them all - the Amazon rainforest. 其中最伟大的莫过于亚马逊雨林.
It's essential for the health of our planet,storing as much carbon 它对我们星球的健康至关重要,能储存同样多的碳
as 25 years' worth of current emissions from all the cars in the world. 相当于世界上所有汽车25年的排放量.
The Amazon rainforest is one of the keystones of our climate. 亚马逊雨林是我们气候的基石之一.
If we lose enough of the Amazon that it stops to function like that, 如果我们失去了足够多的亚马逊,它就会停止这样的运作,
then it's going to be an absolute disaster for civilisation,it really will. 那么这将是文明的绝对灾难,真的会.
But urban expansion,cattle ranching 但是城市扩张,养牛业
and mining means that the forests of the Amazon 采矿意味着亚马逊的森林
are being lost at a frightening rate. 正在以惊人的速度消失.
It's not beyond the realms of possibility that we could 这并没有超出我们所能做到的可能性范围
deforest a rainforest,like the Amazon, 砍伐雨林,比如亚马逊,
so that trees cannot grow there 这样树就不能在那里生长了
and it turns into a savanna. 变成了稀树草原.
Every minute,an area the size of about two football pitches 每分钟,大约两个足球场大小的区域
is destroyed by humans. 被人类摧毁.
These amazing ecosystems around us - the oceans,the jungles,the forests, 我们周围这些神奇的生态系统-海洋,丛林,森林,
the mangroves - these are our greatest hope 红树林是我们最大的希望
and our greatest buffers against a warming planet. 以及我们对抗全球变暖的最大缓冲.
On the front line in the heart of the Amazon 在亚马逊中心的前线
stands of the city of Manaus. 马瑙斯城的看台.
Here,urban expansion is eating into the jungle. 在这里,城市扩张正在吞噬丛林.
Celina Pinage works for IPAAM, Celina Pinage为IPAAM工作,
the Amazonas Environmental Protection Unit. 亚马逊环境保护组织.
Their mission is to save animals trapped in the city 他们的任务是拯救困在城里的动物
and to return them to the wild. 把它们送回野外.
Today,Celina is rescuing a sloth. 今天,塞琳娜正在救一只树懒.
It's the world's slowest mammal. 它是世界上最慢的哺乳动物.
Many become trapped as trees are cut down 许多人因为树木被砍伐而陷入困境
to make way for houses. 为房子让路.
Over 3,000 animals have been rescued in the past five years. 在过去的五年里,已经有3000多只动物获救.
Each one of these creatures is needed by the forest - 每一种生物都是森林所需要的-
to disperse seeds,pollinate plants 传播种子,给植物授粉
or,like this jaguar,to keep herbivores in check. 或者像这只美洲虎一样,控制食草动物.
Whenever possible,Celina releases animals 只要有可能,Celina就会放生动物
back into the protected areas of jungle. 回到丛林的保护区.
We don't just want to protect animals because they're interesting 我们不只是想保护动物因为它们有趣
and they're beautiful. 它们很漂亮.
They're an integral part of a functioning planet,and we need to keep them around. 它们是一个正常运转的星球不可分割的一部分,我们需要保持它们的存在.
So,how do we protect our remaining forests? 那么,我们如何保护我们剩下的森林呢？
Calculating their true environmental value could hold the key. 计算它们的真实环境价值是关键.
And a new cutting-edge technology is beginning to do just that. 一种新的尖端技术正开始实现这一点.
It's led by a team from the Global Airborne Observatory. 它由全球航空天文台的一个小组领导.
They've developed a way to quantify 他们发明了一种量化
exactly how much carbon the forest stores. 森林到底储存了多少碳.
By firing high-powered lasers across the canopy, 通过在树冠上发射高功率激光,
they can map the amount of carbon within each tree. 他们可以绘制出每棵树的碳含量.
The trees showing up as red and yellow are the most carbon-rich. 呈现红色和黄色的树木碳含量最高.
These maps allow countries to see how valuable their forests are. 这些地图使各国能够看到自己的森林有多么宝贵.
I truly hope that we aren't too far away 我真的希望我们不会太远
from realising the intrinsic value of wildlife,of forests, 从认识到野生动物和森林的内在价值,
but we're not there yet and,for the time being, 但我们还没到那,现在,
governments need to be financially incentivised to keep forests standing 政府需要在财政上受到激励,以保持森林的稳定
and to not cut them down. 不要把它们砍掉.
But what about areas of forest that have already been destroyed? 但是那些已经被破坏的森林区域呢？
In the Amazon,a revolutionary project is under way. 在亚马逊,一个革命性的项目正在进行中.
The aim is to plant a new jungle 目的是种植一片新的丛林
of 73 million trees. 七千三百万棵树.
But regrowing a species-rich forest has always proved difficult. 但是,重建一个物种丰富的森林一直被证明是困难的.
So the project has turned to the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, 所以这个项目转向了亚马逊的土著居民,
and young women like Milene Alves. 还有像米琳·阿尔维斯这样的年轻女性.
Milene's community has a unique knowledge of seeds. 米琳的社区对种子有着独特的知识.
It's enabled them to collect over 200 它使他们能够收集超过200个
of the most important tree species 最重要的树种
from across the Amazon. 从亚马逊那边.
By mixing the seeds together, 把种子混合在一起,
it allows them to create a super-recipe known as a muvuca. 它允许他们创造一个超级食谱称为muvuca.
In this mixture,there is enough tree variety 在这种混合物中,有足够的树种
to jump-start a new jungle. 开始一个新的丛林.
Every year,around 20 tonnes of seeds 每年大约有20吨种子
are scattered over acres of burnt and degraded land. 散落在燃烧和退化的土地上.
After six years, 六年后,
they will have restored an area of forest 他们将恢复一片森林
the size of 30,000 football fields 有3万个足球场那么大
the largest tropical restoration project in the world. 世界上最大的热带恢复项目.
The best thing we can possibly do 我们能做的最好的事
to mitigate the effects of a warming planet is to plant more trees 为了减轻地球变暖的影响,就要种更多的树
and protect those trees that we have. 保护我们的树木.
We can do this. 我们能做到的.
If we put them back,we are creating 如果我们把它们放回去,我们就是在创造
that stable climate that we need to survive, 我们赖以生存的稳定气候,
and it's such an easy thing to do. 这是一件很容易的事.
Planting trees and saving wildlife is a vital solution on land, 植树和保护野生动物是陆地上的重要解决办法,
but it's only part of the story. 但这只是故事的一部分.
The carbon dioxide we produce 我们产生的二氧化碳
is damaging another crucial part of our planet - 正在破坏我们星球的另一个重要部分-
the oceans. 海洋.
Life cannot survive without them. 生命离不开它们.
The reason we can walk out and live 我们能走出去生活的原因
and breathe oxygen is because it's generated in the oceans. 呼吸氧气是因为它是在海洋中产生的.
The oceans produce up to 70% of the oxygen we breathe 海洋产生的氧气占我们呼吸氧气的70%
and feed over three billion people. 养活了30多亿人.
Just like our forests, 就像我们的森林,
the plants and animals here 这里的动植物
absorb vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. 从大气中吸收大量的碳.
And,when they die,it sinks down to the ocean floor. 当它们死亡时,它会沉到海底.
The ocean is what we call a carbon sink. 海洋就是我们所说的碳汇.
Basically,it's a giant sponge 基本上,这是一块巨大的海绵
that has forever been absorbing 一直以来都很吸引人
all the excess carbon from the atmosphere, 大气中多余的碳,
taking it down to the depths and keeping it there. 把它带到深处并保持在那里.
The most vital life forms that allow the ocean to do this 最重要的生命形式使海洋能够做到这一点
are some of the tiniest, 是一些最小的,
microscopic plant-like organisms - 微小的类植物有机体-
phytoplankton. 浮游植物.
Now,we don't pay much attention to the little teeny plankton, 现在,我们不太注意微小的浮游生物,
but plankton are the most important organisms for taking carbon dioxide 但是浮游生物是吸收二氧化碳最重要的生物
and transforming it into oxygen for the planet. 并将其转化为地球的氧气.
Phytoplankton are the base of the food chain 浮游植物是食物链的基础
on top of which everything else survives. 除此之外,其他一切都得以生存.
The krill eats the phytoplankton, 磷虾吃浮游植物,
whales eat the krill, 鲸鱼吃磷虾,
sharks eat the fish,and so on and so forth. 鲨鱼吃鱼,以此类推.
We need phytoplankton for everything else in the oceans to survive, 我们需要浮游植物才能生存,
to trap that carbon and keep our climate cool. 为了捕获碳并保持气候凉爽.
But some of these crucial phytoplankton are under attack. 但其中一些关键的浮游植物正受到攻击.
Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, 自从工业革命开始,
the oceans have absorbed almost half of all our CO2 emissions. 海洋几乎吸收了我们排放的二氧化碳的一半.
But that has come at a cost. 但这是要付出代价的.
When water absorbs carbon dioxide,it becomes more acidic. 当水吸收二氧化碳时,它变得更酸性.
But the problem when you have this acidification 但是当你有这种酸化
is that shells are made of calcium carbonate, 贝壳是碳酸钙做的,
and,as you have this increased acidity in the oceans, 随着海洋酸度的增加,
it starts to dissolve these structures. 它开始溶解这些结构.
That threatens anything with a shell. 用炮弹威胁任何东西.
Our increasingly warm,acidic waters 我们日益温暖的酸性海水
are not only destroying coral reefs 不仅破坏珊瑚礁
but decimating some phytoplankton, 但是杀死一些浮游植物,
the amount of which has fallen by as much as 40% in recent years. 近年来,这一数字下降了40%.
250 million years ago,the ocean also warmed and became more acidic, 2.5亿年前,海洋也变暖,变得更加酸性,
contributing to the mass extinction of around 96% of all marine life. 导致大约96%的海洋生物大灭绝.
If we have less phytoplankton,the base of every food web, 如果我们有更少的浮游植物,每个食物网的基础,
you lose so much more of everything else. 你失去了更多的东西.
It is serious.If we have less phytoplankton, 这是严重的.如果浮游植物减少,
we have less oxygen,which is what we need to survive. 我们的氧气更少,这是我们生存所需要的.
And the oceans are being damaged 海洋正在被破坏
in another way. 另一方面.
Research suggests that overfishing 研究表明过度捕捞
has removed as much as 90% of all large predatory fish. 已经移除了90%的大型食肉鱼类.
And fewer fish means a marine system that stores 鱼类的减少意味着海洋系统
less carbon. 更少的碳.
Ocean species are dying at a rate that's so fast 海洋物种正以如此之快的速度死去
that,if it were human beings,we would absolutely be terrified. 如果是人类,我们绝对会害怕.
But there is hope here,too. 但这里也有希望.
When areas of ocean are protected, 当海洋区域受到保护时,
marine life can recover. 海洋生物可以恢复.
Here,off the coast of Gabon, 在加蓬海岸,
they've created one of Earth's most ambitious networks 他们创造了地球上最具野心的网络之一
of marine protected areas. 海洋保护区.
It's a hot spot for breeding whales and dolphins 这是繁殖鲸鱼和海豚的热点
and one of the most important of all marine predators 是最重要的海洋食肉动物之一
sharks. 鲨鱼.
Sharks prevent the species they feed on from becoming overabundant - 鲨鱼防止它们赖以生存的物种变得过多-
an essential factor in maintaining our oceans' rich diversity. 维持海洋丰富多样性的一个重要因素.
When people think about poaching in Africa, 当人们想到非洲的偷猎,
they think about elephants and rhinos and hippos 他们想到大象、犀牛和河马
and these great,majestic creatures on land. 以及陆地上这些伟大而雄伟的生物.
But there is poaching that's taking place at sea. 但海上也有偷猎活动.
The reason that I call these fishermen poachers 我之所以称这些渔民为偷猎者
is that they are taking wildlife without licence. 他们无照经营野生动物.
Captain Peter Hammarstedt, 彼得·哈马斯特德上尉,
who works for the conservation group Sea Shepherd, 他在海洋守护者保护组织工作,
is patrolling the 20,000-square-mile marine park. 在20000平方英里的海岸公园巡逻.
Prepare boats for launch,prepare boats for launch.Thank you. 准备下水,准备下水发射.谢谢你.
They've spotted a commercial fishing boat on the edge of the park 他们在公园边发现了一艘商业渔船
which needs investigating. 这需要调查.
The Gabonese government has joined forces with Peter's team 加蓬政府与彼得的团队联手
to carry out boat inspections. 检查船只.
The vessel may have a licence to fish here, 这艘船可能有在这里捕鱼的执照,
but it could be taking more than its quota 但这可能会超出其配额
and catching protected species, 捕捉保护物种,
like dolphins and sharks. 像海豚和鲨鱼.
When fighting a war to stop illegal fishing, 为了制止非法捕鱼而打仗的时候,
the odds can seem insurmountable. 这种可能性似乎难以克服.
This boat's fishing nets have pulled up 这艘船的渔网拉起了
threatened silky and blue sharks. 受威胁的丝状和蓝色鲨鱼.
Catching and keeping these creatures is illegal, 捕捉和饲养这些生物是非法的,
so the fishermen must throw them back. 所以渔民们必须把它们扔回去.
But many are already so badly injured, 但很多人已经受了重伤,
they will not survive the ordeal. 他们经受不住考验.
It saddens me greatly to see these incredible creatures 看到这些不可思议的生物我非常难过
being brutally manhandled as they're dragged across the deck, 当他们被拖过甲板时被残忍地对待,
their fingers in their gills as they pull them. 当他们拉手指的时候,手指在鳃里.
Globally,each year,millions of sharks 全球每年有数百万条鲨鱼
and over 300,000 whales and dolphins 超过300000头鲸鱼和海豚
are accidentally killed by fishing nets, 被渔网意外杀死,
seriously injuring the health of the oceans. 严重损害海洋健康.
It's the efficiency of these vessels that shocks me to the core 正是这些血管的效率让我震惊
this sheer killing power of them. 他们的杀伤力.
And you can really see 你真的可以看到
why the oceans are being sucked dry of life. 为什么海洋被吸干了生命.
But the patrols are working. 但是巡逻队在工作.
In the past three years,they have arrested 50 vessels 在过去三年里,他们逮捕了50艘船只
and inspected hundreds more. 又检查了几百个.
Last year,we assisted the coastguard 去年,我们协助海岸警卫队
to arrest a vessel that was poaching sharks. 逮捕一艘偷猎鲨鱼的船只.
And,by arresting this one single ship, 通过逮捕这艘船,
we were able to save the lives of 250,000 sharks. 我们拯救了25万条鲨鱼的生命.
Marine life here now has a chance. 这里的海洋生物现在有机会了.
Currently,around 5% of the oceans are protected, 目前,大约5%的海洋受到保护,
but there's a global campaign to raise that to 30%. 但是有一个全球性的运动要把这个比例提高到30%.
If we can do that,many of the planet's most vulnerable species 如果我们能做到这一点,地球上许多最脆弱的物种
could recover. 可以恢复.
And a healthier ocean has the power to absorb more CO2. 更健康的海洋有能力吸收更多的二氧化碳.
We thought the ocean is 我们以为海洋
this infinite space that is full of infinite resources 这个充满无限资源的无限空间
and this infinite capacity to 这种无限的能力
withstand and tolerate everything that we throw at it. 承受并容忍我们对它所做的一切.
And I think we do need to 我想我们确实需要
stop and reconsider our strategies if we want to move forward. 如果我们想继续前进,就停下来重新考虑我们的策略.
Humans aren't just damaging life in the sea. 人类不仅仅在破坏海洋中的生命.
We're also disturbing one of its most important forces 我们也在干扰它最重要的力量之一
ocean currents. 洋流.
These transport essential nutrients to almost all marine creatures. 几乎所有的海洋生物都需要这些营养物质.
We're dependent on 我们依赖于
these large circulation patterns that go on in our oceans. 这些在我们的海洋中持续的大环流模式.
There's this continuous movement 有一种持续的运动
of beautiful cold water coming from the depths. 美丽的冷水从深处涌来.
It's chock-full of nutrients, 它充满了营养,
it's chock-full of productivity. 它充满了生产力.
These currents begin at the poles. 这些电流从两极开始.
Here,cold,salty water, 这里,冰冷的咸水,
which is more dense,sinks to the depths 哪个密度更大,沉到深处
and flows towards the tropics 流向热带
and beyond. 甚至更远.
In the hotter parts of the Earth,warmer water rises and flows 在地球较热的地方,温暖的水上升和流动
back towards the poles. 回到两极.
This creates a global conveyor belt 这将创建一个全局传送带
that circulates nutrients,oxygen and heat around our planet, 使营养物质、氧气和热量在地球上循环,
regulating Earth's climate and weather. 调节地球的气候和天气.
But it's now feared that our warming planet is destabilising the system. 但现在人们担心,我们正在变暖的星球正在破坏这个系统的稳定.
As you have an increase in ocean temperatures, 随着海洋温度的升高,
it has impacts on everything. 它对一切都有影响.
We have glaciers across the world and,as they melt, 世界各地都有冰川,当它们融化时,
you have more of this fresh water just pushing into the oceans. 你有更多的淡水流入海洋.
And this fresh water is less saline,it's less salty, 淡水的含盐量少,含盐量少,
and that tends to float at the surface. 它会浮在水面上.
And it's not moving.You don't have this circulation. 它不动了.你没有这种循环.
It's causing a breakdown. 它导致了精神崩溃.
Many animals depend on reliable ocean currents, 许多动物依赖可靠的洋流,
so,as they change, 所以,当他们改变时,
the effect can be disastrous. 后果可能是灾难性的.
This can be witnessed 这是可以见证的
off the north-east coast of the United States, 在美国东北海岸,
where it's thought to be triggering 被认为是触发的地方
mass casualties of a critically endangered species. 极度濒危物种的大规模伤亡.
The fact that they're even here just stuns so many people. 事实上,他们甚至在这里只是震惊了这么多人.
Bob Prescott heads up the emergency response team. 鲍勃·普雷斯科特是应急小组的负责人.
We have about 250 people that walk beaches. 我们有大约250人在海滩上散步.
They're looking for turtles in trouble. 他们在找有麻烦的海龟.
NEWSREADER: This week's frigid conditions 本周的寒冷天气
have stunned sea turtles and left them 惊呆了海龟然后离开了他们
stranded on beaches throughout the north-east. 被困在整个东北部的海滩上.
If you spot one,move the turtle above the high-tide line 如果你发现一只海龟,把它移到高潮线以上
until a trained responder arrives. 直到一个训练有素的响应者到来.
Timing is everything. 时间就是一切.
If we can get to them within an hour 如果我们能在一小时内找到他们
of them washing up onto the beach, 他们被冲到海滩上,
then we're going to be able to save 那我们就可以救人了
90-95% of them. 90-95%.
Here,off the coast of Boston, 在波士顿的海岸,
waters are warming faster than almost anywhere on Earth. 海水变暖的速度比地球上几乎任何地方都快.
It's thought to be causing turtles from the tropics to swim 它被认为是导致热带海龟游泳的原因
further north than ever before for summer feeding. 比以往任何时候都更北的地方.
But,when the cold autumn waters suddenly close in, 但是,当寒冷的秋水突然逼近,
the turtles go into shock. 海龟们休克了.
These are very young turtles. 这些是非常小的海龟.
They're anywhere from one-and-a-half to six years old. 它们的年龄从一岁半到六岁不等.
When we find them,they're hypothermic, 当我们找到他们时,他们体温很低,
their heart is beating at one to five beats a minute. 他们的心脏每分钟跳动一到五次.
The blood is barely circulating. 血液几乎没有循环.
For all intents and purposes,look dead. 无论出于什么目的,都要装死.
The critically ill animals 病危动物
are rushed to the New England Aquarium near Boston. 被送往波士顿附近的新英格兰水族馆.
It has a state-of-the-art ER unit for turtles. 它有一个最先进的海龟急诊室.
We don't want to stress them any further, 我们不想再给他们压力了,
so we now treat the whole episode 所以我们现在来处理整个事件
as sort of entering an ICU unit of a hospital. 就像进了医院的重症监护室.
This is critical care for some turtles. 这是一些海龟的关键护理.
He's pretty stiff.I can't get his mouth open much more. 他很僵硬.我再也不能让他张嘴了.
See,it's right there. 看,就在那里.
Oh,there we are,there we are. 哦,我们到了,我们到了.
When a turtle arrives,its condition is rapidly assessed. 当海龟到达时,它的状况会被迅速评估.
How are you doing? 你好吗？
The animals are given 动物们被给予
stabilising drugs and fluids, 稳定药物和液体,
their lungs are cleared of water 他们的肺里没有水
and sand washed out of their scratched eyes. 沙子从他们擦伤的眼睛里冲走.
Got emergency meds. 有急救药.
The veterinary team 兽医团队
must ventilate turtles 必须给海龟通风
that are close to death 都快死了
to help them breathe.No response at all. 帮助他们呼吸.完全没有反应.
But it's worth it for an animal that might live another 50 years. 但对于一只可能再活50年的动物来说,这是值得的.
You want to save as many as you can. 你想存多少就存多少.
And it is depressing at times, 有时也很郁闷,
cos a lot of them don't make it. 因为他们中的很多人都做不到.
You know,last year at Thanksgiving,we had 200 dead turtles. 你知道,去年感恩节,我们有200只死海龟.
When you're looking into its eyes,it's looking back at you. 当你看着它的眼睛时,它就在回头看你.
There is a connection there. 那里有联系.
And it gets stronger and stronger as they start to recover. 当他们开始恢复的时候,它变得越来越强大.
It can take months for the turtles to recuperate. 海龟们需要几个月才能恢复健康.
But,once they do, 但是,一旦他们这么做了,
they'll make the first plane flight of their lives. 他们将进行人生中的第一次飞机飞行.
We have a big transport this morning - 今天早上我们有一个大的交通工具-
44 ridleys and one loggerhead. 44只瑞德利和一只红海龟.
So we're going to start in 15B. 所以我们从15B开始.
All right,let's get to work! 好了,我们开始工作吧！
They are part of the planet. 他们是地球的一部分.
They're part of our very delicate web of life,if you will. 如果你愿意的话,它们是我们脆弱的生命网的一部分.
38,41,44 38,41,44
The bottom line for all of these turtles 所有这些海龟的底线
is to get them back out into the water. 就是把它们放回水里.
We're doing great on timing,everybody. 我们在时机上做得很好,各位.
A very exciting day,cos it just brings that turtle 一个非常令人兴奋的一天,因为它带来了海龟
one step closer to being released back into the wild. 离被放归野外又近了一步.
These mass casualties of our changing oceans 我们不断变化的海洋造成的大规模伤亡
are to be flown south to Florida and beyond. 将飞往南佛罗里达州及更远的地方.
The future of this species depends on these young turtles 这个物种的未来取决于这些小海龟
Ready.All right! 准备好了.好了正确的！
which will be released 将会被释放
into the warmer-water currents that they need to survive. 进入温暖的水流中生存.
It's a very emotional day for everybody. 对每个人来说,今天都是充满感情的一天.
These are turtles that staff and volunteers at the aquarium 这些海龟是水族馆的工作人员和志愿者
have worked so hard to get them to that point. 为了让他们走到这一步,我付出了很大的努力.
Changes in the ocean currents won't just harm turtles. 洋流的变化不仅会伤害海龟.
With heat,oxygen and nutrients moving more slowly around the globe, 随着热量、氧气和营养物质在地球上的移动越来越慢,
the impact on all life could be dramatic. 对所有生命的影响可能是巨大的.
I mean,we live in a world where 我是说,我们生活在一个
just one domino in a large game of dominoes 只是一个多米诺骨牌游戏中的一个多米诺骨牌
So you flick one piece,and you know what happens - 所以你弹了一片,你知道会发生什么-
everything starts to collapse. 一切都开始崩溃.
And that's exactly what we start to see over time 这正是我们随着时间的推移开始看到的
as these conveyor belts slow down. 当这些传送带减速时.
Human activity is destroying the balance of our perfect planet 人类活动正在破坏我们完美星球的平衡
disturbing our oceans and disrupting our weather. 扰乱我们的海洋和天气.
But can we prevent the damage we're doing? 但是我们能阻止我们造成的伤害吗？
Now the human population's at 7 billion. 现在的人口是70亿.
It's moving to 9 billion. 现在已经达到90亿了.
And the problem is we're already using 问题是我们已经在使用
the equivalent of one-and-a-half Earths. 相当于一个半地球.
It's not sustainable. 这是不可持续的.
Around 80% of the energy we use 大约80%的能源我们使用
still comes from burning fossil fuels. 仍然来自燃烧化石燃料.
It's what makes us so dangerous. 这就是我们如此危险的原因.
We can reduce CO2 emissions by consuming less 我们可以通过减少消耗来减少二氧化碳的排放
or reusing some of our resources. 或者重新利用我们的资源.
But the biggest saving we could make 但我们能省下的最大一笔钱
would be to stop using fossil fuels for our energy. 那就是停止使用化石燃料作为我们的能源.
And there are many people who think 有很多人认为
that we could exploit the natural forces of the planet 我们可以利用地球的自然力
to enable us to do that. 使我们能够做到这一点.
The sun has not sent us a bill. 太阳报还没有给我们发账单.
The wind has not invoiced us. 风没有给我们开发票.
Coal,oil,gas,uranium - they're expensive. 煤、石油、天然气、铀——它们很贵.
The sun and the wind is free. 太阳和风是自由的.
We live in a planet that's incredibly dynamic. 我们生活在一个充满活力的星球上.
We all live in environments 我们都生活在环境中
where there is some source of energy that we can tap into. 那里有我们可以利用的能源.
There's energy,there's power all around us. 我们周围有能量,有力量.
And we need to start looking at 我们需要开始研究
these natural sources of energy 这些天然能源
that don't have that negative impact. 不会有负面影响.
We have more energy than we'll ever know what to do with. 我们有比我们所知道的更多的能量.
We can power the whole world 我们可以为整个世界提供动力
with just a fraction of the solar and wind that we get every year - 每年只有一小部分的太阳能和风能-
a fraction of it! 一小部分！
We're not going to start needing less power any time soon. 我们不会很快开始需要更少的电力.
We're just going to have to shift how we generate that power 我们只需要改变发电方式
from non-renewables to renewables. 从非可再生能源到可再生能源.
Volcanic heat. 火山热.
So far,we've only tapped 到目前为止,我们只
some 7% of its global potential. 约占其全球潜力的7%.
Or the wind in our skies. 或是天空中的风.
That could provide 这可以提供
30% of our energy by 2050. 到2050年我们能源的30%.
And the power of the sun, 太阳的力量,
which is virtually unlimited. 这实际上是无限的.
In areas where most life struggles to survive 在大多数生命挣扎求生的地区
there is plenty of space to gather the maximum solar energy. 有足够的空间来收集最大的太阳能.
The northern Sahara,home to the world's largest 北撒哈拉,世界上最大的
concentrated solar power plant. 聚光太阳能发电厂.
Here,innovative technology 在这里,创新技术
is using mirrors to superheat a special liquid 是用镜子加热一种特殊的液体
to around 400 degrees Celsius. 大约400摄氏度.
This heat is then stored in molten salt, 这些热量被储存在熔盐中,
allowing something not possible before - 允许一些以前不可能的事情-
the ability to power steam turbines 为蒸汽轮机提供动力的能力
with the sun's energy during the night. 在夜间利用太阳的能量.
It creates green electricity 24 hours a day, 它每天24小时提供绿色电力,
feeding Morocco's growing energy needs. 满足摩洛哥日益增长的能源需求.
And it has plans to supply Europe. 它还计划向欧洲供货.
We need to make enormous shifts in our society. 我们需要在我们的社会中做出巨大的改变.
This is starting, 开始了,
but it's happening just in small places. 但这只是发生在小地方.
It needs to happen everywhere, 它需要到处发生,
and it needs to happen much,much faster. 它需要更快地发生.
There's really no excuse. 真的没有借口.
The Earth has all of the power we need. 地球拥有我们所需要的所有能量.
Our mission is not growth,growth,growth, 我们的使命不是成长,成长,成长,
but sustainability, 但是可持续性,
and that our responsibility is to steward this planet. 我们的责任是管理这个星球.
That's the mission at hand. 这就是我们手头的任务.
But is this transition to a low-carbon society 但这是向低碳社会过渡吗
happening fast enough? 发生得够快吗？
In 2015,195 of the world's nations 2015195年世界各国
pledged to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. 承诺减少他们的二氧化碳排放量.
To avoid planetary disaster, 为了避免行星灾难,
the goal was to limit the warming of the Earth 目标是限制地球变暖
to well below two degrees. 远低于2度.
Together,citizens of the world, 全世界的公民们,
we will work to save our planet from ourselves. 我们将努力拯救我们的星球.
Today's a historic day 今天是历史性的一天
in the fight to protect our planet. 为了保护我们的星球.
You'll either be lauded by future generations 你要么会受到后代的称赞
or vilified by them. 或者被他们诽谤.
To get an accurate reading 为了得到准确的读数
of CO2 levels in the Earth's atmosphere, 地球大气中的二氧化碳含量,
you must be far away from the pollution of the cities. 你一定远离城市的污染.
So,in the heart of the Amazon, 所以,在亚马逊的中心,
they built a 325-metre tower to do just that. 他们建了一座325米高的塔来做这个.
It's one of a number of towers around the planet 它是地球上许多高塔之一
collecting vital data, 收集重要数据,
and the news is not good. 而且这个消息并不好.
This year,CO2 levels in the atmosphere 今年,大气中的二氧化碳含量
went up yet again,hitting another record high. 再次上涨,再创新高.
I think we are in a crisis.I'm not going to mince my words. 我认为我们正处于危机之中.我不打算含糊其辞.
We are in a crisis right now. 我们现在正处于危机之中.
We are pushing the equilibrium that the planet used to be in 我们正在推动地球过去的平衡
in a way that may be unrecoverable. 以一种不可恢复的方式.
And what the scientists are telling us is 科学家告诉我们
we will face a runaway cascade of environmental events 我们将面临一连串失控的环境事件
feeding off each other,taking us into an unknown abyss 互相取食,把我们带进一个未知的深渊
that could lead to a very quick mass extinction 那可能会导致一场很快的大灭绝
of much of life on this Earth 地球上大部分的生命
in a very,very short period of time. 在很短的时间内.
Species are becoming extinct 物种正在灭绝
around 100 times faster than the normal rate. 大约比正常速度快100倍.
So rapid is the loss 损失如此之快
that zoos around the world are taking drastic action. 全世界的动物园都在采取激烈的行动.
They're collecting DNA from endangered species 他们正在收集濒危物种的DNA
to build a genetic store of life before they go extinct. 在生命灭绝前建立一个基因库.
At Edinburgh Zoo,a health check on a Diana monkey 在爱丁堡动物园,一只戴安娜猴子的健康检查
presents a valuable opportunity 提供了一个宝贵的机会
to collect a sample for the European network of biobanks. 为欧洲生物银行网络收集样本.
We really feel the pressure to bank as many species as we can 我们真的感受到了尽可能多地保护物种的压力
as fast as we can before it's too late. 在太迟之前尽快.
Marlys Houck at San Diego Zoo 圣迭戈动物园的马里斯·霍克
receives DNA samples from all over the world. 接收来自世界各地的DNA样本.
She's taking them to a secure vault. 她要把他们带到一个安全的保险库.
It's known as the Frozen Zoo. 它被称为冷冻动物园.
It's hard to imagine, 很难想象,
but there's probably more vertebrate life in that room 但那个房间里可能有更多的脊椎动物
than anywhere else on the planet. 比地球上其他任何地方都重要.
We get samples every day.It might be a tiger, 我们每天都有样品.可能是只老虎,
it might be a bear,it might be a rare reptile. 可能是熊,也可能是稀有的爬行动物.
Right now,we have over 10,000 individuals represented. 目前,我们有超过10000名代表.
The living cells of our world's rarest animals 世界上最稀有动物的活细胞
are being stored here at minus-200 degrees Celsius 在零下200摄氏度的温度下储存
keeping their DNA viable indefinitely, 让他们的DNA无限期存活,
just in case the worst happens. 以防最坏的情况发生.
There are multiple frozen zoos like this around the world 世界上有很多这样的冷冻动物园
and,with extinction rates so high, 在灭绝率如此之高的情况下,
they might be needed sooner than we thought. 他们可能比我们想象的要快.
I hope that we never have to see 我希望我们永远不会看到
extinction of some of these amazing species. 一些神奇物种的灭绝.
But,if we do,the samples in the Frozen Zoo 但是,如果我们这么做了,冷冻动物园里的样本
might be the hope for bringing them back,so that 可能是把他们带回来的希望,所以
our children and grandchildren 我们的子孙
could once again 可以再次
see the actual animals. 看看真正的动物.
Not knowing what the planet will be like when I'm an adult, 不知道我成年后地球会变成什么样子,
not knowing whether it will be capable of sustaining life - 不知道它能否维持生命-
that is a terrifying thing to face. 那是一件可怕的事情.
I think the planet that I've been born into 我想我出生的星球
is the most beautiful place that I could ever imagine. 是我能想象到的最美丽的地方.
It's full of amazing wildlife 到处都是神奇的野生动物
and us - humans are incredible. 而我们人类是不可思议的.
But we seem to forget that the place that we live in is finite 但我们似乎忘记了我们生活的地方是有限的
and very vulnerable,and it seems to be dying before our eyes. 而且非常脆弱,它似乎在我们眼前死去.
Since the age of ten,I've been hearing about our warming world, 从十岁起,我就听说我们的世界在变暖,
but nothing was really done at that time. 但那时什么也没做.
All I observed at that time was sort of mass apathy. 当时我所观察到的只是一种大众的冷漠.
But what is positive is that the youth 但积极的是年轻人
are standing up and are taking leadership. 他们站起来领导.
Save our planet! 拯救我们的星球！
We need more people to care. 我们需要更多的人来关心.
We need more people to look at the facts and say, 我们需要更多的人看看事实然后说,
"I will do something about this." “我会做点什么的.”
Whose future? Our future! 谁的未来？我们的未来！
Whose planet? Our planet! 谁的星球？我们的星球！
Whose future? 谁的未来？
So we need to think about how we interact with the natural world. 所以我们需要思考我们如何与自然世界互动.
We need to view it not as a commodity 我们不应该把它看作商品
but as a system that we are a part of 但作为一个系统,我们是其中的一部分
because we are inextricably linked 因为我们有着千丝万缕的联系
to the natural world,and whatever happens 不管发生什么
to the oceans, 去海洋,
whatever happens to the forests, 不管森林发生了什么,
whatever happens to the deserts,that will come back 不管沙漠发生了什么,都会回来的
and it will happen to us. 这会发生在我们身上.
Right now,we have the capacity and knowledge 现在,我们有能力和知识
to stop the damage we are doing. 阻止我们造成的破坏.
But what we don't have 但我们所没有的
is time. 是时间.
My inspiration and hope for the future 我的灵感和对未来的希望
lies with the next generation. 与下一代有关.
But we all have a responsibility to reduce our carbon footprints, 但我们都有责任减少碳足迹,
harness the forces of nature for our energy 利用大自然的力量获取能量
and protect the natural world. 保护自然世界.
The survival of humanity and our fellow creatures on Earth 人类和地球上其他生物的生存
depends upon it. 取决于它.
Do you want to be the last generation 你想成为最后一代吗
that signed the death certificate of humanity? 签署了人类死亡证书？
Do you want to be the generation that sees the last elephant killed? 你想成为看到最后一头大象被杀的那一代人吗？
Do you want to be the generation 你想成为这一代人吗
that sees the last fish fished out of the sea? 看到最后一条鱼从海里捞出来了吗？
Or do you want to be the generation 还是你想成为这一代人
and the individuals that turned it around? 以及扭转局面的人？
This is the single most serious moment 这是最严肃的时刻
in the 200,000 years that our species has been on this Earth. 我们人类在地球上生活了20万年.
I see reason to hope. 我看到了希望的理由.
And I think we can. 我想我们可以.
I think we humans,we are incredibly intelligent animals, 我认为我们人类,我们是非常聪明的动物,
and we can, 我们可以,
and we will, 我们会的,
if we set our minds to it. 如果我们下定决心的话.
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exploring our perfect planet.To order,please call 探索我们完美的星球.如需订购,请致电
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