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George Monbiot: For more wonder, rewild the world
喬治．蒙比爾特 (George Monbiot): 野化奇跡 生生不息
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狼曾經棲息於美國的黃石國家公園，而獵殺一度使其絕跡。但 1995 年，由於一個激進的管理專案，狼群回歸了，有趣的事情發生了：國家公園的其他物種開始形成一種新的，更為健康的均衡關係。喬治．蒙比爾特大膽設想了一個更為野性的世界，人類能通過努力工作，來重新恢復以往圍繞我們的、複雜的、丟失的自然食物鏈。
George Monbiot - Rewilding campaigner
As George Monbiot puts it: "I spend my life looking for ways to untangle the terrible mess we’ve got ourselves into." Full bio
As George Monbiot puts it: "I spend my life looking for ways to untangle the terrible mess we’ve got ourselves into." Full bio
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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，
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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。
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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。
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This is why wars get fought.
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這正是引發戰爭的原因。
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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。
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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
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gradually diminishing
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漸漸薄弱，
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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。
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And I found myself sort of
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我覺得自己
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scratching at the walls of life,
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就像在生活的牆上不住地撓，
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as if I was trying to find a way out
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試圖找到一條出路，
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into a wider space beyond.
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想找有更廣闊地一片天。
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I was, I believe, ecologically bored.
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我相信，那時我是真的窮極無聊。
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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，
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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。
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And we still possess the fear and the courage
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我們依舊有恐懼和勇氣
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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。
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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，
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we have few opportunities to exercise them
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我們很少有機會練習，
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without harming other people.
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而不會傷害到其他人。
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And this was the sort of constraint that I found myself
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這就是我所遭遇到的
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bumping up against.
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瓶頸。
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To conquer uncertainty,
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要克服不確定，
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to know what comes next,
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知道什麼可能發生，
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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，
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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。
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We've privileged safety over experience
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我們看重安全甚於經驗 ，
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and we've gained a lot in doing so,
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我們從中獲益匪淺，
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but I think we've lost something too.
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但我認為其中也有損失。
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Now, I don't romanticize evolutionary time.
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我並沒有把演化的過程理想化。
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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，
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and the outcome of a mortal combat between me
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如果殊死搏鬥的一方是我——
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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，
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and an enraged giant aurochs
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而對方是頭被激怒的巨型歐洲野牛
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isn't very hard to predict.
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結果並不難預測。
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Nor was it authenticity that I was looking for.
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我也並非在找尋真實性。
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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。
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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，
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than I've been able to lead in Britain, or, indeed,
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相較於在英國，或者
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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。
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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，
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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。
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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
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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。
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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。
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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。
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of ecosystems.
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第一種是-大規模的復原生態系統。
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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
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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，
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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
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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。
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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，
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but perhaps we're slightly less aware
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但我們可能不太清楚
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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
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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，
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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、
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。
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：
07:25
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。
08:24
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。
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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
08:56
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，
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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。
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
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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；
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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。
09:49
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」，
09:52
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。
09:55
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、
09:59
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
（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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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
George Monbiot - Rewilding campaignerAs George Monbiot puts it: "I spend my life looking for ways to untangle the terrible mess we’ve got ourselves into."
Why you should listen
As a young man, George Monbiot spent six years working as an investigative journalist in West Papua, Brazil and East Africa, during which time he was shot at, shipwrecked, beaten up, stung into a poisoned coma by hornets, became lost for days in a rainforest, where he ate rats and insects to avert starvation and was (incorrectly) pronounced clinically dead in a hospital in northern Kenya. Today, he leads a less adventurous life as an author, columnist for the Guardian newspaper and environmental campaigner. Among his books and projects are Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life; The Age of Consent and Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, as well as the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness. His latest book is Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis. He has made a number of viral videos. One of them, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been watched 30m times on YouTube.
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