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Plastic grass was only in its infancy in 2011, having started to be used in gardens in the 1990s – there probably wasn't much laid in London between 1998 and 2008.[qh]
塑料草在2011年才刚刚起步，它在20世纪90年代开始用于花园——在1998年至2008年间，伦敦可能铺设的不多。[qh]
But now?[qh]
但是现在呢？[qh]
A study by Aviva in 2022 found that, nationally, one in 10 homeowners with outside space has replaced at least some of their garden's natural lawn with plastic grass.[qh]
英杰华2022年的一项研究发现，在全国范围内，每10名拥有户外空间的房主中就有1人用塑料草至少替换了一部分自家花园的天然草坪。[qh]
That means, of the 30m gardens in the UK, 3m have been lost beneath plastic.[qh]
这意味着，在英国的3000万个花园中，有300万个已经被塑料所覆盖。[qh]
Where does that leave hedgehogs?[qh]
这让刺猬怎么办呢？[qh]
In Manchester city centre, my old mate Choel witnessed the local extinction of a community that, 20 years previously, had made me feel alive.[qh]
在曼彻斯特市中心，我的老友乔尔见证了一个社区的当地消亡，而20年前，这个社区曾让我感到充满活力。[qh]
But everywhere we are all chipping away at life itself: housing estate by housing estate, garden by garden, paving stone by paving stone, roll of plastic grass by roll of plastic grass.[qh]
但是，我们在各地都在一点点地侵蚀生活本身：一个住宅区接着一个住宅区，一个花园接着一个花园，一块铺路石接着一块铺路石，一卷塑料草接着一卷塑料草。[qh]
And there's more now, isn't there?[qh]
而且现在还有更多，不是吗？[qh]
The climate crisis has finally taken centre stage, as raw and destructive as a skip full of blossoming cherry trees.[qh]
气候危机终于占据了中心舞台，就像那一堆盛开的樱花树一样原始而具有破坏性。[qh]
As if hedgehogs haven't enough to deal with, they're now dying of heat and thirst.[qh]
仿佛刺猬们还不够应对似的，它们现在正死于炎热和口渴。[qh]
Habitat loss is something I know and have grown up with.[qh]
栖息地的丧失是我所知道的，也是我成长过程中所经历的。[qh]
I have seen it and mourned it from a very young age – the old gothic houses we used to drive past that had been abandoned and gone wild, before a developer bought them and turned them into flats; the horse paddock at the end of our road that remained for so long while the town grew around it, until it too was lost to a strip of new-build homes.[qh]
我从小就看到并哀悼它——我们过去常常开车经过的那些古老的哥特式房屋，它们被遗弃并变得荒芜，直到开发商买下它们并将它们变成公寓；我们路尽头的马围场，在小镇在它周围发展起来的同时，它仍然存在了很长时间，直到它也被一排新建的房屋所取代。[qh]
Habitat loss has remained the same the whole time I've known it.[qh]
栖息地丧失的情况从我了解以来一直没有改变。[qh]
There's just less habitat to lose, now.[qh]
现在失去的栖息地更少了。[qh]
(Did anyone think to plan for it to stop?)[qh]
（有没有人想过要计划让它停止？）[qh]
But climate change threatens to take everything away from us, not least a stable climate in which we can grow food according to predictable weather patterns.[qh]
但是气候变化威胁着要把我们的一切都夺走，尤其是一个稳定的气候，在这个气候中，我们可以根据可预测的天气模式种植粮食。[qh]
It's already hitting the global south: in the Horn of Africa, people are experiencing the longest and most extreme drought on record, causing crops to fail and livestock to die.[qh]
它已经袭击了全球南方：在非洲之角，人们正在经历有记录以来最长和最极端的干旱，导致农作物歉收和牲畜死亡。[qh]
In India, rising temperatures and droughts are reducing wheat and rice crops, while scorching conditions are preventing farm workers from being able to work.[qh]
在印度，气温上升和干旱正在减少小麦和水稻的收成，而酷热的条件则使农场工人无法工作。[qh]
