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对于正在沦为沙漠的土地而言，荒漠化这个术语不过是个好听点儿的说法罢了。Allan Savory在这个充满力量的演讲开头这样说。而令人吃惊的是，荒漠化正吞噬着全球大约三分之二的草地，它加速了气候变化，并导致一些传统的放牧社会出现混乱。Savory一生都在致力于和荒漠化的抗衡。如今他坚信----他的工作成果也表明----有一个惊人的因素能够保护草地，并使那些昔日贫瘠的土地重现生机。
adv. 绝对地，完全地;独立地
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- When I was a young man, a young biologist in Africa, I was involved in setting aside marvelous areas as future national parks.
- 我年轻的时候，是非洲的一个年轻生物学家，我参与了一个项目，为国家公园规划未来的野生区域。
- Now no sooner — this was in the 1950s — and no sooner did we remove the hunting,
- 不久后——这是1950年——我们刚取消打猎，
- drum-beating people to protect the animals, than the land began to deteriorate, as you see in this park that we formed.
- 鼓动人们保护动物，接着土地开始恶化，这是我们建立的公园。
- Now, no livestock were involved, but suspecting that we had too many elephants now,
- 这里并没有牲畜（破坏植被），于是我们怀疑是大象的数量太多了，
- I did the research and I proved we had too many,
- 我做过调查，并得出了大象数量过多的结论，
- and I recommended that we would have to reduce their numbers and bring them down to a level that the land could sustain.
- 我建议应该减少它们的数量，把数量降到土地能承受的水平。
- Now, that was a terrible decision for me to have to make, and it was political dynamite, frankly.
- 对我来说，我不得不承认这个可怕的结论，而坦率地说，这是个政治炸弹。
- So our government formed a team of experts to evaluate my research.
- 所以政府组了一个专家团来评估我的调查结果。
- They did. They agreed with me, and over the following years, we shot 40,000 elephants to try to stop the damage.
- 他们评估之后，也同意我的观点，在接下来的那些年，我们射杀了4万头大象来停止土地退化。
- And it got worse, not better.
- 情形变得更坏了，而不是更好。
- Loving elephants as I do, that was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life, and I will carry that to my grave.
- 我很喜欢大象的，这是我人生中最悲哀的、最大的错误，我会带进坟墓。
- One good thing did come out of it. It made me absolutely determined to devote my life to finding solutions.
- 也有一件好事。它使我下定决心奉献我的一生去寻找解决方案。
- When I came to the United States, I got a shock, to find national parks like this one desertifying as badly as anything in Africa.
- 我来到美国，我大吃一惊，发现美国国家公园竟然是这个样子，荒漠化的程度跟非洲一样糟糕。
- And there'd been no livestock on this land for over 70 years.
- 在这片土地上已经70多年没有牲畜的。
- And I found that American scientists had no explanation for this except that it is arid and natural.
- 我发现美国科学家对此的解释没有什么特别，认为无非是干旱和自然条件导致。
- So I then began looking at all the research plots I could over the whole of the Western United States
- 于是我开始收集和分析，我能找到的整个美国西部所有的野外，
- where cattle had been removed to prove that it would stop desertification,
- 研究站的数据，那些地方的牛群都被移走了，来证明这样会停止荒漠化，
- but I found the opposite, as we see on this research station, where this grassland that was green in 1961, by 2002 had changed to that situation.
- 可是我发现的却相反，看这个研究站，在1961年这片草地是绿的，到2002年变成这种状况。
- And the authors of the position paper on climate change from which I obtained these pictures attribute this change to "unknown processes."
- 这些图片来自于研究气候变化的研究人员的论文，他们在观点论文中这种变化归因为“未知进程”。
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