For more wonder, rewild the world | George Monbiot

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譯者: Zhiting Chen 審譯者: Yi-Hsuan Wu
00:12
When I was a young man, I spent six years
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我年輕的時後,曾經有六年時間
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of wild adventure in the tropics
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在熱帶從事野外探險活動,
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working as an investigative journalist
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擔任調查記者,
00:18
in some of the most bewitching parts of the world.
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輾轉在世界上最迷人的一些地方。
00:21
I was as reckless and foolish as only young men can be.
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當時我年輕氣盛,無知無畏。
00:25
This is why wars get fought.
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這正是引發戰爭的原因。
00:26
But I also felt more alive than I've ever done since.
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但那也是我活得最有意義的時期。
00:30
And when I came home, I found the scope of my existence
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當我回到家,發現自己的存在感
00:34
gradually diminishing
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漸漸薄弱,
00:36
until loading the dishwasher seemed like an interesting challenge.
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甚至把碗放進洗碗機都是有趣的挑戰。
00:41
And I found myself sort of
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我覺得自己
00:43
scratching at the walls of life,
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就像在生活的牆上不住地撓,
00:45
as if I was trying to find a way out
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試圖找到一條出路,
00:47
into a wider space beyond.
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想找有更廣闊地一片天。
00:49
I was, I believe, ecologically bored.
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我相信,那時我是真的窮極無聊。
00:53
Now, we evolved in rather more challenging times than these,
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如今,我們進化到了一個更具挑戰性的時代,
00:58
in a world of horns and tusks and fangs and claws.
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一個充斥著尖角、獠牙、利齒、堅爪的世界。
01:03
And we still possess the fear and the courage
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我們依舊有恐懼和勇氣
01:05
and the aggression required to navigate those times.
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以及馳騁於這個時代所需要的上進心。
01:08
But in our comfortable, safe, crowded lands,
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但在這個舒適、安全、擁擠的地盤上,
01:13
we have few opportunities to exercise them
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我們很少有機會練習,
01:16
without harming other people.
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而不會傷害到其他人。
01:19
And this was the sort of constraint that I found myself
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這就是我所遭遇到的
01:23
bumping up against.
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瓶頸。
01:26
To conquer uncertainty,
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要克服不確定,
01:28
to know what comes next,
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知道什麼可能發生,
01:32
that's almost been the dominant aim of industrialized societies,
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這幾乎就是工業社會的主導目標,
01:36
and having got there, or almost got there,
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當目標達成,或即將達成的時候,
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we have just encountered a new set of unmet needs.
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又會出現新的需求。
01:43
We've privileged safety over experience
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我們看重安全甚於經驗 ,
01:46
and we've gained a lot in doing so,
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我們從中獲益匪淺,
01:49
but I think we've lost something too.
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但我認為其中也有損失。
01:52
Now, I don't romanticize evolutionary time.
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我並沒有把演化的過程理想化。
01:54
I'm already beyond the lifespan of most hunter-gatherers,
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我已經比那些狩獵-採集的原始人長命很多了,
01:58
and the outcome of a mortal combat between me
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如果殊死搏鬥的一方是我——
02:01
myopically stumbling around with a stone-tipped spear
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目光短淺,跌跌撞撞,拿著石尖矛的原始人,
02:04
and an enraged giant aurochs
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而對方是頭被激怒的巨型歐洲野牛
02:07
isn't very hard to predict.
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結果並不難預測。
02:09
Nor was it authenticity that I was looking for.
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我也並非在找尋真實性。
02:12
I don't find that a useful or even intelligible concept.
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這根本不是個有用而清晰的概念。
02:15
I just wanted a richer and rawer life
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我只想要過一種更豐富、更天然的生活,
02:19
than I've been able to lead in Britain, or, indeed,
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相較於在英國,或者
02:22
that we can lead in most parts of the industrialized world.
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在世界上大多數的工業國家過的日子。
02:25
And it was only when I stumbled across an unfamiliar word
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直到我偶然認識了一個不熟悉的詞彙,
02:31
that I began to understand what I was looking for.
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我才開始理解自己尋覓的是什麼。
02:34
And as soon as I found that word,
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一找到這個詞,
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I realized that I wanted to devote
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我就知道我會願意
02:39
much of the rest of my life to it.
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將餘生的大部分精力投入其中。
02:43
The word is "rewilding,"
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就是“野化” (rewilding) 一詞,
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and even though rewilding is a young word,
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即使是一個新興詞彙,
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it already has several definitions.
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它也已經擁有很多種定義。
02:51
But there are two in particular that fascinate me.
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但其中有兩種深得我心。
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The first one is the mass restoration
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第一種是-大規模的復原生態系統。
02:59
of ecosystems.
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第一種是-大規模的復原生態系統。
03:01
One of the most exciting scientific findings
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在過去半個世紀中
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of the past half century
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最讓人振奮的科學發現之一
03:06
has been the discovery of widespread trophic cascades.
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就是廣泛存在的營養級聯。
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A trophic cascade is an ecological process
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營養級聯是一種生態過程,
03:14
which starts at the top of the food chain
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從食物鏈頂端開始,
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and tumbles all the way down to the bottom,
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自上而下到達底部,
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and the classic example is what happened
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最經典例子就是
03:22
in the Yellowstone National Park in the United States
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在美國黃石國家公園
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when wolves were reintroduced in 1995.
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1995年的狼群放歸。
03:29
Now, we all know that wolves kill various species of animals,
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我們都知道狼會殺死多種動物,
03:33
but perhaps we're slightly less aware
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但我們可能不太清楚
03:36
that they give life to many others.
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牠們也孕育了許多其他的物種。
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It sounds strange, but just follow me for a while.
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聽起來挺奇怪,但請聽我道來。
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Before the wolves turned up,
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在狼群回歸之前,
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they'd been absent for 70 years.
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牠們已絕跡70年了。
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The numbers of deer, because there was nothing to hunt them,
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因為沒有天敵,鹿的數量
03:49
had built up and built up in the Yellowstone Park,
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在黃石公園中不斷增加,
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and despite efforts by humans to control them,
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就算人類想過辦法控制,
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they'd managed to reduce much of the vegetation there
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牠們還是幾乎將當地植被
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to almost nothing, they'd just grazed it away.
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破壞殆盡。
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But as soon as the wolves arrived,
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一旦狼群到來,
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even though they were few in number,
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雖然數量並不多,
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they started to have the most remarkable effects.
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效果卻是驚人的。
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First, of course, they killed some of the deer,
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首先,牠們殺了部份的鹿,
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but that wasn't the major thing.
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但這不是最重要的。
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Much more significantly,
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更重要的是,
04:15
they radically changed the behavior of the deer.
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牠們從根本上改變了鹿群的行為。
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The deer started avoiding certain parts of the park,
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鹿群開始回避國家公園中的一些地方,
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the places where they could be trapped most easily,
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那些牠們最容易被捕獵的地方,
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particularly the valleys and the gorges,
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特別是一些溪谷和峽谷,
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and immediately those places started to regenerate.
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那裡的(植被)立馬得到了新生。
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In some areas, the height of the trees
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有些地方的樹在六年裡就長了五倍高。
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quintupled in just six years.
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有些地方的樹在六年裡就長了五倍高。
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Bare valley sides quickly became forests of aspen
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光禿禿的山谷沒多久 就有了樹林,長滿了山楊、
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and willow and cottonwood.
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柳樹和棉白楊。
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And as soon as that happened,
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樹一長出來,
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the birds started moving in.
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鳥類就開始加入。
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The number of songbirds, of migratory birds,
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鳴禽數量和候鳥數量
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started to increase greatly.
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開始急速成長。
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The number of beavers started to increase,
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河狸數量也開始增加,
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because beavers like to eat the trees.
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因為牠們喜愛的食物來自於樹木。
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And beavers, like wolves, are ecosystem engineers.
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河狸,就像狼一樣,是生態系統的工程師。
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They create niches for other species.
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牠們為其他物種創造獨特的生存空間。
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And the dams they built in the rivers
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在河裡築起的小水壩
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provided habitats for otters and muskrats
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為水獺、麝鼠、
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and ducks and fish and reptiles and amphibians.
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鴨子、魚類、爬行動物 和兩棲動物提供了棲息地。
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The wolves killed coyotes, and as a result of that,
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狼群殺死郊狼,結果
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the number of rabbits and mice began to rise,
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兔子和老鼠的數量開始增加,
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which meant more hawks, more weasels,
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帶來更多的鷹、黃鼠狼、
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more foxes, more badgers.
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狐狸和獾。
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Ravens and bald eagles came down to feed
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渡鴉和禿鷹落地來吃
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on the carrion that the wolves had left.
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狼群留下的腐骨。
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Bears fed on it too, and their population began to rise as well,
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熊也吃這個,而熊的數量增加,
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partly also because there were more berries
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部分原因是有更多的漿果
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growing on the regenerating shrubs,
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結在新生的灌木上,
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and the bears reinforced the impact of the wolves
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熊還增強了狼群產生的影響,
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by killing some of the calves of the deer.
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牠們捕殺鹿的幼崽。
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But here's where it gets really interesting.
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另外還有更加有趣的地方。
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The wolves changed the behavior of the rivers.
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狼群改變了河流的習性。
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They began to meander less.
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河水的迂回減少了,
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There was less erosion. The channels narrowed.
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侵蝕減弱,河道變窄。
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More pools formed, more riffle sections,
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也形成更多池塘和淺灘,
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all of which were great for wildlife habitats.
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這些都是極佳的野生動物棲息地。
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The rivers changed
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河流因狼群而改變,
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in response to the wolves,
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河流因狼群而改變,
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and the reason was that the regenerating forests
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原因在於新生的樹林
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stabilized the banks so that they collapsed less often,
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穩固了河岸,滑坡減少,
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so that the rivers became more fixed in their course.
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河道也就更為固定。
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Similarly, by driving the deer out of some places
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另外,由於鹿群被趕出了一些區域,
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and the vegetation recovering on the valley sides,
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河谷坡上的植被復蘇,
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there was less soil erosion,
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植被能夠穩固土壤,
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because the vegetation stabilized that as well.
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因此水土流失也減少了。
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So the wolves, small in number,
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總之,僅僅是為數不多的狼,
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transformed not just the ecosystem
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不但轉變了黃石國家公園
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of the Yellowstone National Park, this huge area of land,
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廣闊土地上的生態系統,
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but also its physical geography.
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還轉變了這裡的地形地貌。
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Whales in the southern oceans
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南大洋中的鯨魚
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have similarly wide-ranging effects.
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也有類似的廣泛影響。
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One of the many post-rational excuses
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日本政府用此來解釋其捕鯨活動
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made by the Japanese government for killing whales
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其中一個理由是
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is that they said, "Well, the number of fish and krill will rise
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他們說:「魚類和磷蝦的數量會增加,
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and then there'll be more for people to eat."
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能為人類提供更多食物。」
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Well, it's a stupid excuse, but it sort of
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這愚蠢的藉口,
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kind of makes sense, doesn't it,
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聽起來似乎有點道理,
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because you'd think that whales eat huge amounts
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因為你覺得鯨魚要吃掉大量的
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of fish and krill, so obviously take the whales away,
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魚和磷蝦,顯然,把鯨魚拿掉,
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there'll be more fish and krill.
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魚和磷蝦就會增多。
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But the opposite happened.
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但事實情況正好相反。
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You take the whales away,
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把鯨魚拿掉後,
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and the number of krill collapses.
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磷蝦數量劇減。
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Why would that possibly have happened?
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怎麼會這那樣?
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Well, it now turns out that the whales are crucial
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現在人們發現鯨魚
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to sustaining that entire ecosystem,
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對維護整個生態系統至關重要。
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and one of the reasons for this
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其中一個原因是:
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is that they often feed at depth
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鯨魚在較深的水域進食,
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and then they come up to the surface and produce
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然後到水面排泄,
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what biologists politely call large fecal plumes,
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生物學家禮貌地稱之為大型糞便羽,
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huge explosions of poop right across the surface waters,
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巨量的糞便在表層水域,
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up in the photic zone, where there's enough light
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就是海洋的透光層,有足夠的光照
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to allow photosynthesis to take place,
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供(水生植物)進行光合作用,
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and those great plumes of fertilizer
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這些可觀的肥料糞便
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stimulate the growth of phytoplankton,
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刺激了浮游植物的增殖,
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the plant plankton at the bottom of the food chain,
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處於食物鏈底端的浮游植物,
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which stimulate the growth of zooplankton,
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促進了浮游動物的增殖,
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which feed the fish and the krill and all the rest of it.
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進而供養了魚類、磷蝦和其他生物。
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The other thing that whales do is that,
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鯨魚還有一個重要的任務:
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as they're plunging up and down through the water column,
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牠們在水體中上下穿梭,
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they're kicking the phytoplankton
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就能把浮游植物
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back up towards the surface
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重新攪回水面
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where it can continue to survive and reproduce.
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讓它們繼續生存和繁殖。
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And interestingly, well, we know
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有趣的是,
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that plant plankton in the oceans
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我們知道海洋中的浮游植物
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absorb carbon from the atmosphere --
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能吸收大氣層中的碳,
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the more plant plankton there are,
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浮游植物越多,
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the more carbon they absorb --
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吸收的碳就越多,
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and eventually they filter down into the abyss
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最終它們滲入海底
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and remove that carbon from the atmospheric system.
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帶走了大氣迴圈中的碳。
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Well, it seems that when whales were at their historic populations,
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在鯨魚數量繁盛的歷史時期,
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they were probably responsible for sequestering
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牠們很可能負責每年
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some tens of millions of tons of carbon
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要從大氣中吸收幾千萬噸的碳。
08:35
every year from the atmosphere.
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要從大氣中吸收幾千萬噸的碳。
08:38
And when you look at it like that, you think,
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綜合這些例子,你想想,
08:41
wait a minute, here are the wolves
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等等,狼能夠
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changing the physical geography of the Yellowstone National Park.
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改變黃石國家公園的物理地貌;
08:46
Here are the whales changing
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鯨魚能夠改變
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the composition of the atmosphere.
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大氣的構成。
08:50
You begin to see that possibly,
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你開始看到一種可能性,
08:53
the evidence supporting James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis,
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如同詹姆斯•洛夫洛克的蓋亞假說
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which conceives of the world as a coherent,
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認為世界是渾然一體的,
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self-regulating organism,
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是能夠自我調節的有機體,
09:01
is beginning, at the ecosystem level, to accumulate.
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在生態系統層面, 證明蓋亞假說的證據開始積累。
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Trophic cascades
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營養級聯
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tell us that the natural world
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告訴我們自然界
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is even more fascinating and complex than we thought it was.
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比我們想的更為神奇和複雜。
09:16
They tell us that when you take away the large animals,
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它告訴我們,當你去掉了大型動物,
09:19
you are left with a radically different ecosystem
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只能得到一個截然不同的生態系統
09:23
to one which retains its large animals.
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與保留大型動物相比。
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And they make, in my view, a powerful case
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在我看來,這些都是強有力的案例
09:29
for the reintroduction of missing species.
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來支持缺失物種的再引入。
09:33
Rewilding, to me,
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野化,對我來說
09:35
means bringing back some of the missing plants and animals.
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意味著帶回某些缺失的植物和動物;
09:39
It means taking down the fences,
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意味著卸下樊籬;
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it means blocking the drainage ditches,
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意味著擋住排水溝;
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it means preventing commercial fishing in some large areas of sea,
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意味著阻止某些大面積海域的商業性捕魚;
09:45
but otherwise stepping back.
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否則就是倒退。
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It has no view as to what a right ecosystem
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野化對「何為一個正確的生態系統」,
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or a right assemblage of species looks like.
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或者「怎樣組合物種才正確」這類問題不做評論。
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It doesn't try to produce a heath or a meadow
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野化並不是要打造一片荒野、一個牧場、
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or a rain forest or a kelp garden or a coral reef.
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一片雨林、海藻園或珊瑚礁。
10:04
It lets nature decide,
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它讓大自然做出決定,
10:06
and nature, by and large, is pretty good at deciding.
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一般說來,大自然非常善於做決定。
10:09
Now, I mentioned that there are two definitions
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我之前提到野化有兩種定義
10:12
of rewilding that interest me.
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讓我感興趣。
10:14
The other one
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另一種(定義)
10:15
is the rewilding of human life.
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就是人類的「野化」。
10:18
And I don't see this as an alternative
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我並不認為這可以替代文明。
10:20
to civilization.
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我並不認為這可以替代文明。
10:22
I believe we can enjoy the benefits of advanced technology,
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我相信人類可以享受先進科技帶來的好處,
10:25
as we're doing now, but at the same time, if we choose,
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就像現在一樣,但同時可以自主選擇
10:29
have access to a richer and wilder life of adventure
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去接觸一種更豐富更野性的探險生活
10:34
when we want to because
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只要我們想,就能
10:36
there would be wonderful, rewilded habitats.
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去那些美好的野化生態棲息地。
10:40
And the opportunities for this
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這類機會
10:42
are developing more rapidly than you might think possible.
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激增的速度遠遠超過你的想像。
10:47
There's one estimate which suggests that in the United States,
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有一項預測顯示,在美國,
10:50
two thirds of the land which was once forested and then cleared
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原本森林被砍伐的土地中,有三分之二
10:54
has become reforested as loggers and farmers have retreated,
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已經被重新植林,伐木工和農夫撤出了,
10:57
particularly from the eastern half of the country.
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這種現象尤其多見於美國東部。
11:00
There's another one which suggests
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另一項預測顯示
11:02
that 30 million hectares of land in Europe,
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歐洲有三千萬公頃的土地,
11:05
an area the size of Poland,
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這相當於波蘭的國土面積,
11:08
will be vacated by farmers
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農夫會在
11:10
between 2000 and 2030.
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2000年與2030年之間搬出。
11:13
Now, faced with opportunities like that,
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面對這樣的機會,
11:16
does it not seem a little unambitious
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我們是否可以更有野心一點,
11:19
to be thinking only of bringing back wolves, lynx,
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難道只能考慮恢復狼、猞猁、
11:22
bears, beavers, bison, boar, moose,
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熊、河狸、野牛、野豬、駝鹿,
11:26
and all the other species which are already beginning
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和其他一些已經開始
11:28
to move quite rapidly across Europe?
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在歐洲迅速遷徙的物種嗎?
11:31
Perhaps we should also start thinking
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或許我們也應該開始考慮
11:33
about the return of some of our lost megafauna.
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讓一些失落的巨型物種回歸?
11:37
What megafauna, you say?
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你說是哪個物種?
11:39
Well, every continent had one,
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每個大陸都有一個,
11:42
apart from Antarctica.
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除了南極洲。
11:43
When Trafalgar Square in London was excavated,
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當倫敦特拉法爾加廣場開挖地基時,
11:47
the river gravels there were found
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在那裡的河道砂石中找到了
11:49
to be stuffed with the bones of hippopotamus,
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滿滿的動物骨骸,包括河馬、
11:52
rhinos, elephants, hyenas, lions.
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犀牛、大象、鬣狗,和獅子。
11:56
Yes, ladies and gentlemen,
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是的,女士先生們,
11:58
there were lions in Trafalgar Square
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特拉法爾加廣場曾有獅子出沒,
12:00
long before Nelson's Column was built.
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遠在納爾遜紀念碑修建之前。
12:03
All these species lived here
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這些物種生活在
12:06
in the last interglacial period,
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上一次間冰期,
12:08
when temperatures were pretty similar to our own.
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那時的氣溫與現在相似。
12:11
It's not climate, largely,
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基本上,氣候
12:13
which has got rid of the world's megafaunas.
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並不是造成巨型動物滅絕的原因。
12:17
It's pressure from the human population
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壓力來自於人類的
12:19
hunting and destroying their habitats
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狩獵和破壞動物棲息地的行為,
12:21
which has done so.
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這才是罪魁禍首。
12:23
And even so, you can still see the shadows
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即便如此,你仍然能
12:26
of these great beasts in our current ecosystems.
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在現今的生態系統中看到這些巨獸的影子。
12:29
Why is it that so many deciduous trees
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為什麼有如此多的落葉樹木
12:32
are able to sprout from whatever point the trunk is broken?
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可以從任何樹幹斷裂的地方冒出芽來?
12:37
Why is it that they can withstand the loss
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這些樹木為什麼在失去
12:39
of so much of their bark?
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大部分樹皮的情況下仍能存活?
12:40
Why do understory trees,
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為什麼下層木
12:43
which are subject to lower sheer forces from the wind
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受到的風力小,
12:48
and have to carry less weight
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承受的重量
12:50
than the big canopy trees,
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也比喬木輕,
12:52
why are they so much tougher and harder to break
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為什麼這些樹比喬木更堅硬、
12:56
than the canopy trees are?
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更難折斷呢?
13:00
Elephants.
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大象。
13:02
They are elephant-adapted.
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它們是適應大象而演化的。
13:04
In Europe, for example,
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好比在歐洲,
13:06
they evolved to resist the straight-tusked elephant,
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這些樹種演化成能夠抵擋長了直獠牙的象,
13:10
elephas antiquus, which was a great beast.
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古象,一種巨獸。
13:12
It was related to the Asian elephant,
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它與亞洲象有關係,
13:14
but it was a temperate animal, a temperate forest creature.
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但它是一種溫帶動物,一種溫帶樹林生物。
13:17
It was a lot bigger than the Asian elephant.
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比亞洲象的體格大很多。
13:19
But why is it that some of our common shrubs
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為什麼普通的灌木
13:22
have spines which seem to be over-engineered
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長著相當誇張的刺
13:25
to resist browsing by deer?
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來阻止鹿的進食?
13:28
Perhaps because they evolved
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它們演化成這樣可能是為了
13:30
to resist browsing by rhinoceros.
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阻止犀牛的進食。
13:33
Isn't it an amazing thought
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這個想法是不是很絕,
13:35
that every time you wander into a park
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每次你閒逛到一個公園
13:38
or down an avenue or through a leafy street,
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或者溜躂到一條林蔭大道,
13:40
you can see the shadows of these great beasts?
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就可以看到這些巨獸的影子?
13:44
Paleoecology, the study of past ecosystems,
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古生態學研究過去的生態系統,
13:48
crucial to an understanding of our own,
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這對理解我們今天的生態系統尤其重要,
13:52
feels like a portal through which you may pass
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讓人覺得是這是一個入口,可以由此
13:55
into an enchanted kingdom.
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穿越到一個奇幻王國。
13:58
And if we really are looking at areas of land
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如果我們可以去檢視這些 (重歸自然的)土地的區域面積
14:02
of the sort of sizes I've been talking about becoming available,
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真的可以達到我們之前談到的規模,
14:06
why not reintroduce some of our lost megafauna,
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為什麼不能再引入那些失落的巨型動物,
14:09
or at least species closely related to those
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或者是與牠們有關聯的生物,
14:11
which have become extinct everywhere?
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那些在瀕臨絕種的生物?
14:14
Why shouldn't all of us
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為什麼我們不能都
14:16
have a Serengeti on our doorsteps?
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在門階上搞出一個塞倫蓋提(草原)?
14:19
And perhaps this is the most important thing
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也許這就是野化所能
14:22
that rewilding offers us,
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帶給我們的最重要的東西,
14:24
the most important thing that's missing from our lives:
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我們生活中缺失的最最重要的一樣東西:
14:27
hope.
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希望。
14:29
In motivating people to love and defend the natural world,
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通過激勵人們熱愛和保衛自然界,
14:34
an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.
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一盎司的希望抵得上一噸的絕望。
14:39
The story rewilding tells us
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野化的故事告訴我們,
14:41
is that ecological change need not always proceed
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生態變遷無需永遠
14:45
in one direction.
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朝一個方向進行。
14:47
It offers us the hope
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它帶給我們希望,
14:50
that our silent spring
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寂靜的春天
14:52
could be replaced by a raucous summer.
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可能被喧囂的夏天所取代。
14:54
Thank you.
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謝謝。
14:56
(Applause)
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