Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

Prevodilac: Ivana Krivokuća Lektor: Tijana Mihajlović

We are stealing nature from our children.

Krademo prirodu od svoje dece.

Now, when I say this, I don't mean that we are destroying nature

Kad to kažem, ne mislim da uništavamo prirodu

that they will have wanted us to preserve,

koju bi oni želeli da im sačuvamo,

although that is unfortunately also the case.

mada je i to, nažalost, slučaj.

What I mean here is that we've started to define nature in a way

Ono što mislim pod time je da smo počeli da definišemo prirodu na način

that's so purist and so strict

koji je tako puritanski i tako strog da,

that under the definition we're creating for ourselves,

prema definiciji koju stvaramo,

there won't be any nature left for our children

uopšte neće ostati prirode za našu decu

when they're adults.

kada budu odrasli.

But there's a fix for this.

Međutim, postoji rešenje za ovo.

So let me explain.

Dozvolite da objasnim.

Right now, humans use half of the world

Trenutno, ljudi koriste polovinu sveta

to live, to grow their crops and their timber,

da bi živeli, uzgajali useve i drva,

to pasture their animals.

da bi napasali svoje životinje.

If you added up all the human beings,

Ako biste sabrali sva ljudska bića,

we would weigh 10 times as much as all the wild mammals put together.

imali bismo težinu deset puta veću od svih divljih sisara zajedno.

We cut roads through the forest.

Krčimo puteve kroz šumu.

We have added little plastic particles to the sand on ocean beaches.

Dodali smo male plastične čestice pesku na plažama okeana.

We've changed the chemistry of the soil with our artificial fertilizers.

Izmenili smo hemiju zemljišta našim veštačkim đubrivima.

And of course, we've changed the chemistry of the air.

Naravno, promenili smo i hemiju vazduha.

So when you take your next breath,

Tako, kada sledeći put udahete,

you'll be breathing in 42 percent more carbon dioxide

udahnućete 42 posto više ugljen-dioksida

than if you were breathing in 1750.

od onog koji biste udisali 1750. godine.

So all of these changes, and many others,

Sve te promene, kao i mnoge druge,

have come to be kind of lumped together under this rubric of the "Anthropocene."

nekako su se grupisale pod nazivom „antropocen“.

And this is a term that some geologists are suggesting

To je termin koji neki geolozi predlažu

we should give to our current epoch,

da treba dati našoj trenutnoj epohi,

given how pervasive human influence has been over it.

uzimajući u obzir koliko ju je ljudski uticaj prožimao.

Now, it's still just a proposed epoch, but I think it's a helpful way

To je i dalje samo predlog za epohu, ali mislim da je to koristan način

to think about the magnitude of human influence on the planet.

za razmatranje dimenzija ljudskog uticaja na planetu.

So where does this put nature?

Na čemu je priroda sa tim?

What counts as nature in a world where everything is influenced by humans?

Šta se računa kao priroda u svetu u kome ljudi utiču na sve?

So 25 years ago, environmental writer Bill McKibben said

Pre 25 godina, ekološki pisac Bil Makiben rekao je da,

that because nature was a thing apart from man

jer je priroda nešto odvojeno od čoveka

i jer klimatske promene podrazumevaju

and because climate change meant

that every centimeter of the Earth was altered by man,

da je čovek izmenio svaki centimetar na Zemlji,

then nature was over.

priroda je gotova.

In fact, he called his book "The End of Nature."

Zapravo, nazvao je svoju knjigu „Kraj prirode“.

I disagree with this. I just disagree with this.

Ne slažem se sa ovim. Jednostavno se ne slažem.

I disagree with this definition of nature, because, fundamentally, we are animals.

Ne slažem se sa ovom definicijom prirode, jer, u suštini, mi smo životinje, zar ne?

Right? Like, we evolved on this planet

U smislu, razvili smo se na ovoj planeti

in the context of all the other animals with which we share a planet,

u kontekstu svih drugih životinja sa kojima delimo planetu,

and all the other plants, and all the other microbes.

kao i sa svim drugim biljkama i mikrobima.

And so I think that nature

Zato mislim da priroda

is not that which is untouched by humanity, man or woman.

nije ono što je netaknuto od strane ljudskih bića, muškarca ili žene.

I think that nature is anywhere where life thrives,

Smatram da se priroda nalazi svuda gde uspeva život,

anywhere where there are multiple species together,

bilo gde da ima više vrsta zajedno,

anywhere that's green and blue and thriving and filled with life

gde god da je zeleno i plavo, gde buja, ispunjeno je životom

and growing.

i gde raste.

And under that definition,

Pod ovom definicijom,

things look a little bit different.

stvari izgledaju malo drugačije.

Now, I understand that there are certain parts of this nature

Razumem da postoje određeni delovi prirode

that speak to us in a special way.

koji nam se obraćaju na poseban način.

Places like Yellowstone,

To su mesta kao što je Jeloustoun,

or the Mongolian steppe,

Mongolska stepa,

or the Great Barrier Reef

Veliki koralni greben

or the Serengeti.

ili Serengeti.

Places that we think of as kind of Edenic representations

To su mesta koja smatramo rajskim predstavnicima prirode

of a nature before we screwed everything up.

pre nego što smo sve upropastili.

And in a way, they are less impacted by our day to day activities.

Na neki način, na njih manje utiču naše svakodnevne aktivnosti.

Many of these places have no roads or few roads,

Mnoga među ovim mestima nemaju puteve ili ih imaju nekoliko

so on, like such.

i tako dalje, slično tome.

But ultimately, even these Edens are deeply influenced by humans.

Ipak, u krajnjoj liniji, čak i na te rajeve ljudi duboko utiču.

Now, let's just take North America, for example,

Uzmimo Severnu Ameriku, na primer,

since that's where we're meeting.

s obzirom na to da se tu srećemo.

So between about 15,000 years ago when people first came here,

Pre oko 15 000 godina, kada su ljudi prvi put došli ovde,

they started a process of interacting with the nature

započeli su proces interakcije sa prirodom

that led to the extinction of a big slew of large-bodied animals,

koji je doveo do istrebljenja mnoštva krupnih životinja,

from the mastodon to the giant ground sloth,

od mastodonta do velikog kopnenog lenjivca,

saber-toothed cats,

sabljastih mačkaka,

all of these cool animals that unfortunately are no longer with us.

svih tih zanimljivih životinja koje, nažalost, više nisu sa nama.

And when those animals went extinct,

Kada su te životinje izumrle,

you know, the ecosystems didn't stand still.

znate, ekosistemi nisu mirovali.

Massive ripple effects changed grasslands into forests,

Ogroman efekat talasa preobrazio je travnate površine u šume,

changed the composition of forest from one tree to another.

promenio je sastav šume od jednog do drugog stabla.

So even in these Edens,

Čak i u ovim rajevima,

even in these perfect-looking places

čak i na tim mestima savršenog izgleda

that seem to remind us of a past before humans,

koja kao da nas podsećaju na prošlost pre ljudi,

we're essentially looking at a humanized landscape.

u suštini gledamo u humanizovani predeo.

Not just these prehistoric humans, but historical humans, indigenous people

Nisu u pitanju samo praistorijski ljudi, već i istorijski ljudi, domoroci,

all the way up until the moment when the first colonizers showed up.

sve do trenutka kada su se pojavili prvi kolonizatori.

And the case is the same for the other continents as well.

Isti je slučaj i sa ostalim kontinentima.

Humans have just been involved in nature

Ljudi su jednostavno umešani u prirodu

in a very influential way for a very long time.

na vrlo uticajan način tokom veoma dugog perioda.

Now, just recently, someone told me,

Nedavno, neko mi je rekao:

"Oh, but there are still wild places."

„O, ali još ima divljih mesta.“

And I said, "Where? Where? I want to go."

Rekla sam: „Gde? Gde? Hoću da odem tamo.“

And he said, "The Amazon."

A on je rekao: „Amazon.“

And I was like, "Oh, the Amazon. I was just there.

Odvratih na to: „O, Amazon. Upravo sam bila tamo.“

It's awesome. National Geographic sent me to Manú National Park,

Sjajno je. Nacionalna geografija me je poslala u nacionalni park Manu,

which is in the Peruvian Amazon,

a to je u peruanskom Amazonu,

but it's a big chunk of rainforest, uncleared, no roads,

ali to je veliki komad prašume, neraskrčen, nema puteva,

protected as a national park,

zaštićen kao nacionalni park,

one of the most, in fact, biodiverse parks in the world.

zapravo, to je jedan od najraznovrsnijih parkova na svetu.

And when I got in there with my canoe, what did I find, but people.

Kada sam stigla tamo svojim kanuom, šta sam drugo našla nego ljude.

People have been living there for hundreds and thousands of years.

Ljudi žive tamo stotinama i hiljadama godina.

People live there, and they don't just float over the jungle.

Ljudi tamo žive i ne obigravaju oko džungle.

Imaju značajnu vezu sa predelom.

They have a meaningful relationship with the landscape.

They hunt. They grow crops.

Love, uzgajaju useve,

They domesticate crops.

pretvaraju ih u domaće.

They use the natural resources to build their houses,

Koriste prirodne resurse da grade svoje kuće,

to thatch their houses.

da pokrivaju svoje kuće.

They even make pets out of animals that we consider to be wild animals.

Čak i pretvaraju u kućne ljubimce životinje koje mi smatramo divljim.

These people are there

Ti ljudi su tamo

and they're interacting with the environment

i u uzajamnom su dejstvu sa sredinom na način

in a way that's really meaningful and that you can see in the environment.

koji je zaista značajan i koji možete videti u sredini.

Now, I was with an anthropologist on this trip,

Bila sam sa antropologom na tom putovanju

and he told me, as we were floating down the river,

i rekao mi je, dok smo plovili rekom:

he said, "There are no demographic voids in the Amazon."

„Nema demografskih praznina u Amazonu.“

This statement has really stuck with me,

Ta izjava mi se zaista urezala,

because what it means is that the whole Amazon is like this.

jer to znači da je ceo Amazon takav.

There's people everywhere.

Svuda ima ljudi.

And many other tropical forests are the same,

Mnoge druge tropske šume su iste,

and not just tropical forests.

i to ne samo tropske šume.

People have influenced ecosystems in the past,

Ljudi su uticali na ekosisteme u prošlosti

and they continue to influence them in the present,

i nastavljaju da utiču na njih u sadašnjosti,

even in places where they're harder to notice.

čak i na mestima gde ih je teže primetiti.

So, if all of the definitions of nature that we might want to use

Dakle, ako sve definicije prirode koje bismo hteli da upotrebimo

that involve it being untouched by humanity

koje podrazumevaju netaknutost od strane čoveka

or not having people in it,

ili nepostojanja ljudi u njoj,

if all of those actually give us a result where we don't have any nature,

ako nam sve one zapravo daju kao rezultat da uopšte nemamo prirodu,

then maybe they're the wrong definitions.

onda su to možda pogrešne definicije.

Maybe we should define it by the presence of multiple species,

Možda bi trebalo da je definišemo prisustvom mnoštva vrsta,

by the presence of a thriving life.

prisustvom života u usponu.

Now, if we do it that way,

Ako ćemo tako,

what do we get?

šta dobijamo?

Well, it's this kind of miracle.

Pa, neku vrstu čuda.

All of a sudden, there's nature all around us.

Odjednom, priroda je svuda oko nas.

All of a sudden, we see this Monarch caterpillar

Odjednom vidimo gusenicu monarha

munching on this plant,

kako gricka biljku

and we realize that there it is,

i shvatimo da je tu,

and it's in this empty lot in Chattanooga.

na praznom placu u Čatanugi.

And look at this empty lot.

Pogledajte to prazno zemljište.

I mean, there's, like, probably,

Mislim, tamo verovatno postoji

a dozen, minimum, plant species growing there,

minimum desetak vrsta biljaka koje tu rastu,

supporting all kinds of insect life,

podržavajući živote najrazličitijih insekata,

and this is a completely unmanaged space, a completely wild space.

a to je potpuno nekontrolisano mesto, sasvim divlji prostor.

This is a kind of wild nature right under our nose,

To je vrsta divlje prirode koja nam je pred nosem,

that we don't even notice.

a koju čak i ne primećujemo.

And there's an interesting little paradox, too.

Tu postoji i zanimljiv mali paradoks.

So this nature,

Ova priroda,

this kind of wild, untended part

ovaj nekakav divlji, zapušteni deo

of our urban, peri-urban, suburban agricultural existence

našeg gradskog, prigradskog, izvangradskog poljoprivrednog iskustva

that flies under the radar,

koje se neopaženo odvija,

it's arguably more wild than a national park,

moguće da je još više divlja od nacionalnog parka,

because national parks are very carefully managed

jer se nacionalnim parkovima vrlo pažljivo upravlja

in the 21st century.

u 21. veku.

Crater Lake in southern Oregon, which is my closest national park,

Kratersko jezero u južnom Oregonu, meni najbliži nacionalni park,

is a beautiful example of a landscape that seems to be coming out of the past.

prelepi je primer predela koji izgleda kao da izlazi iz prošlosti.

But they're managing it carefully.

Međutim, brižljivo ga kontrolišu.

One of the issues they have now is white bark pine die-off.

Jedan od problema koje trenutno imaju je izumiranje belokorog bora.

White bark pine is a beautiful, charismatic --

Belokori bor je prelep, harizmatičan -

I'll say it's a charismatic megaflora

rekla bih da je to harizmatična, velika biljka

koja raste na velikoj nadmorskoj visini,

that grows up at high altitude --

and it's got all these problems right now with disease.

a sada ima sve te probleme sa oboljenjima.

There's a blister rust that was introduced,

Pojavila se gljivica koja izaziva rđu,

bark beetle.

bube koje izjedaju koru.

So to deal with this, the park service has been planting

Da bi se izborila sa time, služba za održavanje parka je zasadila

rust-resistant white bark pine seedlings in the park,

u parku sadnice belokorih borova otporne na rđu,

even in areas that they are otherwise managing as wilderness.

čak i u oblastima kojima inače upravljaju kao divljinom.

Takođe, na ključnim mestima postavljaju sredstva za zaštitu od insekata,

And they're also putting out beetle repellent in key areas

as I saw last time I went hiking there.

što sam videla poslednji put kada sam tamo pešačila.

And this kind of thing is really much more common than you would think.

Ovako nešto je zapravo učestalije nego što biste pretpostavili.

Nacionalni parkovi se intenzivno kontrolišu.

National parks are heavily managed.

The wildlife is kept to a certain population size and structure.

Održava se određeni broj i struktura divljih životinja.

Fires are suppressed.

Suzbijaju se požari.

Fires are started.

Započinju se požari.

Non-native species are removed.

Uklanjaju se vrste koje nisu domaće.

Native species are reintroduced.

Iznova se dovode domaće vrste.

And in fact, I took a look,

Zapravo, pogledala sam,

and Banff National Park is doing all of the things I just listed:

nacionalni park Banf radi sve te stvari koje sam navela:

suzbijanje i podsticanje požara,

suppressing fire, having fire,

radio-collaring wolves, reintroducing bison.

stavljanje radio-ogrlica na vukove, ponovno dovođenje bizona.

It takes a lot of work to make these places look untouched.

Potrebno je mnogo truda da bi ta mesta izgledala netaknuto.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

And in a further irony, these places that we love the most

Što je još veća ironija, ta mesta koja najviše volimo

are the places that we love a little too hard, sometimes.

su mesta koja ponekad previše volimo.

Mnogo nas voli da ide tamo,

A lot of us like to go there,

and because we're managing them to be stable

a kako njima rukovodimo tako da budu stabilna

in the face of a changing planet,

nasuprot planeti koja se menja,

they often are becoming more fragile over time.

često vremenom postaju krhkija.

Which means that they're the absolute worst places

To znači da su to apsolutno najgora mesta

to take your children on vacation,

na koja možete odvesti decu na odmor,

because you can't do anything there.

jer tamo ne možete ništa da radite.

You can't climb the trees.

Ne možete da se penjete na drveće. Ne možete da pecate.

You can't fish the fish.

You can't make a campfire out in the middle of nowhere.

Ne možete tamo usred nedođije da zapalite logorsku vatru.

Ne možete da ponesete šišarke kući.

You can't take home the pinecones.

There are so many rules and restrictions

Ima toliko pravila i ograničenja da je,

that from a child's point of view,

iz dečje perspektive,

this is, like, the worst nature ever.

to najgora moguća priroda,

Because children don't want to hike

jer deca ne žele da pešače

through a beautiful landscape for five hours

kroz prelepi predeo pet sati

and then look at a beautiful view.

i zatim da gledaju lep vidik.

That's maybe what we want to do as adults,

To je možda ono što mi želimo kao odrasli,

but what kids want to do is hunker down in one spot

ali deca žele da samo čučnu na nekom mestu

and just tinker with it, just work with it,

i petljaju sa njim, samo da rade na njemu,

just pick it up, build a house, build a fort, do something like that.

podignu nešto, naprave kuću, izgrade tvrđavu, rade tako nešto.

Additionally, these sort of Edenic places

Pored toga, ova rajska mesta

are often distant from where people live.

često su udaljena od mesta gde žive ljudi, a i skupo je doći do njih.

And they're expensive to get to. They're hard to visit.

Teško je posetiti ih.

So this means that they're only available to the elites,

To znači da su dostupna samo eliti,

and that's a real problem.

a to je pravi problem.

The Nature Conservancy did a survey of young people,

Organizacija za očuvanje prirode sprovela je anketu sa mladim ljudima

and they asked them, how often do you spend time outdoors?

i pitali su ih koliko često provode vreme napolju.

And only two out of five spent time outdoors

Samo dvoje od petoro je provodilo vreme napolju

at least once a week.

makar jednom nedeljno.

The other three out of five were just staying inside.

Preostalih troje od petoro je samo ostajalo unutra.

And when they asked them why, what are the barriers to going outside,

Kada su ih pitali zašto, koje su prepreke izlaženju napolje,

the response of 61 percent was,

61 procenat je odgovorio:

"There are no natural areas near my home."

„Ne postoje prirodne oblasti u blizini moje kuće.“

And this is crazy. This is just patently false.

To je suludo. To je očigledno netačno.

I mean, 71 percent of people in the US

Mislim, 71 posto ljudi u SAD-u

live within a 10-minute walk of a city park.

živi na oko 10 minuta pešačenja do gradskog parka.

And I'm sure the figures are similar in other countries.

Sigurna sam da je slično i u drugim zemljama.

Tu se čak ne ubraja vaša bašta u dvorištu,

And that doesn't even count your back garden,

the urban creek, the empty lot.

urbani potok, prazno zemljište.

Everybody lives near nature.

Svi žive u blizini prirode.

Every kid lives near nature.

Svako dete živi blizu prirode.

We've just somehow forgotten how to see it.

Samo smo nekako zaboravili kako da je vidimo.

We've spent too much time watching David Attenborough documentaries

Proveli smo previše vremena gledajući dokumentarce Dejvida Atenboroa

gde je priroda stvarno seksi -

where the nature is really sexy --

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

and we've forgotten how to see the nature that is literally right outside our door,

i zaboravili smo kako da vidimo prirodu koja nam je bukvalno pred vratima,

the nature of the street tree.

prirodu drveta na ulici.

So here's an example: Philadelphia.

Evo primera: Filadelfija.

There's this cool elevated railway

Tu se nalazi zanimljiva uzdignuta železnička pruga

that you can see from the ground, that's been abandoned.

koju možete videti sa zemlje, a koja je napuštena.

Now, this may sound like the beginning of the High Line story in Manhattan,

Ovo može zvučati kao početak priče o Haj Lajnu na Menhetnu,

and it's very similar, except they haven't developed this into a park yet,

a prilično su slični, osim što ovo još nisu razvili u park,

mada rade na tome.

although they're working on it.

So for now, it's still this little sort of secret wilderness

Za sada, to je još neka vrsta tajne divljine

in the heart of Philadelphia,

u srcu Filadelfije,

and if you know where the hole is in the chain-link fence,

a ako znate gde se nalazi rupa u žičanoj ogradi,

you can scramble up to the top

možete se popeti do vrha

and you can find this completely wild meadow

i možete naći ovu potpuno divlju livadu

just floating above the city of Philadelphia.

koja lebdi nad gradom Filadelfijom.

Every single one of these plants grew from a seed

Svaka od ovih biljaka izrasla je iz semena

that planted itself there.

koje se samo tu zasadilo.

This is completely autonomous, self-willed nature.

Ovo je potpuno autonomna, samovoljna priroda,

And it's right in the middle of the city.

i baš je usred grada.

And they've sent people up there to do sort of biosurveys,

Slali su ljude gore da sprovode neke vrste bioloških istraživanja

and there are over 50 plant species up there.

i tamo ima preko 50 vrsta biljaka.

And it's not just plants.

Tamo nisu samo biljke.

This is an ecosystem, a functioning ecosystem.

To je ekosistem, ekosistem koji funkcioniše.

It's creating soil. It's sequestering carbon.

Stvara zemljište. Izoluje ugljen-dioksid.

There's pollination going on.

Tu se odvija oprašivanje.

I mean, this is really an ecosystem.

Mislim, to je stvarno ekosistem.

So scientists have started calling ecosystems like these "novel ecosystems,"

Naučnici su počeli da nazivaju ovakve ekosisteme „neobični ekosistemi“

because they're often dominated by non-native species,

jer u njima često dominiraju vrste koje nisu domaće,

and because they're just super weird.

a i zato što su veoma čudni.

They're just unlike anything we've ever seen before.

Jednostavno ne liče ni na šta što su ranije videli.

For so long, we dismissed all these novel ecosystems as trash.

Toliko dugo smo odbacivali sve te nove ekosisteme kao beskorisne.

We're talking about regrown agricultural fields,

Govorimo o iznova izraslim poljoprivrednim poljima,

timber plantations that are not being managed on a day-to-day basis,

plantažama drveća koje se ne kontrolišu svakodnevno,

second-growth forests generally, the entire East Coast,

uopšte o sekundarnim šumama, o čitavoj Istočnoj obali,

where after agriculture moved west, the forest sprung up.

gde je, nakon što se poljoprivreda preselila zapadno, izbila šuma.

And of course, pretty much all of Hawaii,

Naravno, to su i manje-više čitavi Havaji,

where novel ecosystems are the norm,

gde su neobični ekosistemi norma,

where exotic species totally dominate.

gde egzotične vrste sasvim dominiraju.

This forest here has Queensland maple,

Ova šuma ovde ima kvinslendske javore,

it has sword ferns from Southeast Asia.

ima oštre paprati iz Jugoistočne Azije.

Možete da napravite i sopstvene neobične ekosisteme.

You can make your own novel ecosystem, too.

It's really simple.

Zaista je jednostavno.

You just stop mowing your lawn.

Samo prestanete da kosite travu.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Ilkka Hanski was an ecologist in Finland, and he did this experiment himself.

Ilka Hanski je bio ekolog u Finskoj i sam je sproveo taj eksperiment.

He just stopped mowing his lawn,

Samo je prestao da kosi svoj travnjak

and after a few years, he had some grad students come,

i nakon nekoliko godina je doveo nekoliko studenata

and they did sort of a bio-blitz of his backyard,

koji su sproveli neku vrstu biološkog istraživanja u njegovom dvorištu

and they found 375 plant species,

i pronašli su 375 vrsta biljaka,

including two endangered species.

uključujući dve ugrožene vrste.

So when you're up there on that future High Line of Philadelphia,

Dakle, kada se nađete tamo gore na tom budućem Haj Lajnu Filadelfije,

surrounded by this wildness,

okruženi tom divljinom,

surrounded by this diversity, this abundance, this vibrance,

okruženi tom raznolikošću, tim obiljem, tom živahnošću,

you can look over the side

možete pogledati sa strane

and you can see a local playground for a local school,

i videti igralište za lokalnu školu,

and that's what it looks like.

a ovako to izgleda.

These children have, that --

Ova deca imaju...

You know, under my definition,

Znate, pod mojom definicijom,

there's a lot of the planet that counts as nature,

postoji dobar deo planete koji se računa kao priroda,

but this would be one of the few places that wouldn't count as nature.

ali ovo bi bilo jedno od nekoliko mesta koje se ne ubraja u prirodu.

There's nothing there except humans, no other plants, no other animals.

Tu nema ničeg osim ljudi, nema drugih biljaka niti životinja.

And what I really wanted to do

Ono što sam zaista želela

was just, like, throw a ladder over the side

je da prebacim merdevine sa strane

and get all these kids to come up with me into this cool meadow.

i dovedem svu tu decu da se popnu sa mnom na tu livadu.

In a way, I feel like this is the choice that faces us.

Na neki način, smatram da je ovo izbor sa kojim se suočavamo.

If we dismiss these new natures as not acceptable or trashy or no good,

Ako odbacimo tu novu prirodu kao neprihvatljivu, bezvrednu ili lošu,

we might as well just pave them over.

mogli bismo i da je prekrijemo asfaltom.

And in a world where everything is changing,

U svetu u kome se sve menja,

we need to be very careful about how we define nature.

treba da vrlo pažljivo definišemo prirodu.

In order not to steal it from our children,

Da je ne bismo krali od svoje dece,

we have to do two things.

moramo da uradimo dve stvari.

First, we cannot define nature as that which is untouched.

Prvo, ne možemo definisati prirodu kao ono što je netaknuto.

This never made any sense anyway.

To svakako nikad nije imalo smisla.

Nature has not been untouched for thousands of years.

Priroda nije netaknuta hiljadama godina.

And it excludes most of the nature that most people can visit

To isključuje većinu prirode koju većina ljudi može posetiti

and have a relationship with,

i sa kojom se mogu povezati,

including only nature that children cannot touch.

uključujući samo prirodu koju deca ne mogu da diraju.

Which brings me to the second thing that we have to do,

To me dovodi do druge stvari koju moramo da uradimo,

a to je da dozvolimo deci da dodirnu prirodu,

which is that we have to let children touch nature,

because that which is untouched is unloved.

jer ono što nije dodirnuto, to nije ni voljeno.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

We face some pretty grim environmental challenges on this planet.

Na ovoj planeti se suočavamo sa vrlo tmurnim izazovima životne sredine.

Climate change is among them.

Klimatske promene su među njima.

There's others too: habitat loss is my favorite thing

Tu su i druge promene -

gubitak staništa mi je omiljena stvar oko koje paničim usred noći.

to freak out about in the middle of the night.

But in order to solve them,

Da bismo ih rešili,

we need people -- smart, dedicated people --

potrebni su nam ljudi - pametni, posvećeni ljudi -

who care about nature.

kojima je stalo do prirode.

And the only way we're going to raise up a generation of people

Jedini način na koji ćemo podići generaciju ljudi

who care about nature

kojima je stalo do prirode

je tako što ćemo im dopustiti da dotaknu prirodu.

is by letting them touch nature.

I have a Fort Theory of Ecology,

Imam ekološku teoriju tvrđave,

Fort Theory of Conservation.

konzervacionu teoriju tvrđave.

Every ecologist I know, every conservation biologist I know,

Svaki ekolog kojeg znam, svaki konzervacioni biolog kojeg znam,

every conservation professional I know,

svi stručnjaci za konzervaciju koje poznajem

built forts when they were kids.

gradili su tvrđave kada su bili deca.

If we have a generation that doesn't know how to build a fort,

Ako imamo generaciju koja ne zna kako da napravi tvrđavu,

we'll have a generation that doesn't know how to care about nature.

imaćemo generaciju koja ne zna kako da brine o prirodi.

Ne želim da budem osoba koja će reći ovom detetu,

And I don't want to be the one to tell this kid,

koje je na specijalnom programu

who is on a special program

that takes Philadelphia kids from poor neighborhoods

odvođenja dece iz siromašnih krajeva Filadelfije

u gradske parkove,

and takes them to city parks,

I don't want to be the one to tell him that the flower he's holding

ne želim da budem ta koja će mu reći da je cvet koji drži

is a non-native invasive weed that he should throw away as trash.

strani invazivni korov koji treba da baci kao đubre.

I think I would much rather learn from this boy

Mislim da bih radije naučila od ovog dečaka da,

that no matter where this plant comes from,

bez obzira na to odakle biljka potiče,

it is beautiful, and it deserves to be touched and appreciated.

ona je lepa i zaslužuje da se dodirne i ceni.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)