TED演讲:石油真正的代价(8)

So as bad as all that is, things are going to get much worse, much, much worse. 整个情况如此糟糕,而且将会每况愈下。 This is the infrastructure as we see it about now. 以上是我们目前所知的基础设施。 This is what's planned for 2015. 这是预定于2015年完成的施工计划。 And you can see here the Keystone Pipeline, 你可以看见图中的油砂输送系统, which would take tar sands raw do...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(7)

And we're replacing that with the largest industrial project in the history of the world, 将它转变成史上最大的工业项目, which is producing the most high-carbon greenhouse gas emitting oil in the world. 生产温室气体排放量最大的高碳油类。 And we're doing this on the second largest oil reserves on the planet. 这就是我们在世上第二大石油蕴藏地所做的事。 This is one of th...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(6)

And the Athabasca River drains downstream to a range of Aboriginal communities. 阿萨帕斯卡尔河下游即原住民聚集地。 In Fort Chippewa, the 800 people there, 奇普怀恩堡有800位居民, are finding toxins in the food chain, 食物链中含有毒性物质, this has been scientifically proven. 已经科学证实。 The tar sands toxins are in the food chain, 食物链中含有沥青砂这种毒性物质, and this...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(5)

The tailings ponds are the largest toxic impoundments on the planet. 那些残渣池是世上最大的毒性蓄水池 Oil sands-r rather I should say tar sands-oil sands is a P.R.-created term, 油砂-或者我该称它为沥青砂-油砂是公关部门创造的词汇, so that the oil companies wouldn't be trying to promote something that sounds like a sticky tar-like substance that's the world's d...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(1)

The world's largest and most devastating environmental and industrial project is situated in the heart of the largest and most intact forest in the world, 世上最大、最具破坏性的环境及工业计划发生于世上最大、保存最完整的森林当中 Canada's boreal forest. 加拿大北方森林。 It stretches right across northern Canada, in Labrador, 它横跨加拿大北部的拉布拉多省, it's home...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(10)

And we need to all gather together and say no to the tar sands. 我们必须团结一致向油砂说不。 And we can do that. There is a huge network all over the world fighting to stop this project. 我们可以做到这一点,遍布全球的庞大网络社群正致力于制止这项计划。 And I quite simply think that this is not something that should be decided just in Canada. 我认为这不仅是加拿大本身该做的决定...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(2)

In Saskatchewan, as across all of the boreal, 横跨北方森林的萨克其万省, home to some of our most famous rivers, 拥有一些著名湖泊, an incredible network of rivers and lakes that every school-age child learns about, 形成令人叹为观止的河流及湖泊网络,这是每位学龄儿童都读过的知识, the Peace, the Athabasca, the Churchill here, the Mackenzie, 和平河、阿萨帕斯卡尔河,丘吉尔河、...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(4)

Now, here you see-of course, as you go further on, 如图所示-当然,当你将视线拉远, these trucks become like a pixel. 这些卡车彷佛图中的小点。 Again, imagine those all back and forth there. 同样地,想象一下这片区域。 How large is that one portion of a mine? 占整个矿场多大部分? That would be a huge, vast metropolitan area, 相当于幅员广大的都会区, probably much larger than t...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(9)

And yet there's a proposal, of course, to build a pipeline to take huge tankers, 10 times the size of the Exxon Valdez, 然而,其中一项提案是-当然-建造输油管供应比Exxon Valdez大10倍的巨型油轮装载原油, through some of the most difficult to navigate waters in the world, 通过世上某些最难航行的水域, where only just a few years ago, 仅仅几年前, a B.C. ferry ran aground. ...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(3)

And I think particularly now, 我认为尤其是目前, as we see ourselves in a time of environmental crisis, 我们明白人类身处环境危机时代, we can learn so much from these people who have lived so sustainably in this ecosystem for over 10,000 years. 我们可从这些族群身上学到许多东西他们在这片生态系统中生活了1万多年。 In the heart of this ecosystem is the very antithesis of all of ...

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