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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。
n. 家畜，牲畜
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- I began helping a family in the Karoo Desert in the 1970s turn the desert that you see on the right there back to grassland,
- 20世纪70年代我开始帮助一个在卡鲁沙漠的家庭，你们看到在右边沙漠变回了草地，
- and thankfully, now their grandchildren are on the land with hope for the future.
- 值得庆幸的是，现在他们的子孙在这片土地上，对未来充满希望。
- And look at the amazing change in this one, where that gully has completely healed using nothing but livestock mimicking nature,
- 看看这个喜人的变化，那里的沟壑已完全愈合，只是用了牧群模仿大自然的过程，
- and once more, we have the third generation of that family on that land with their flag still flying.
- 更可喜的是，第三代人生活在那里，他们的旗帜依旧飞扬。
- The vast grasslands of Patagonia are turning to desert as you see here.
- 巴塔哥尼亚这片辽阔的草原正在变成沙漠。
- The man in the middle is an Argentinian researcher,
- 在中间的那个人是一位阿根廷研究员，
- and he has documented the steady decline of that land over the years as they kept reducing sheep numbers.
- 他已经记录了这片土地的持续衰落，多年来羊群数目持续减少。
- They put 25,000 sheep in one flock, really mimicking nature now with planned grazing, ok?
- 他们把2万5千只羊作为一群，真正模仿大自然的过程并有规划的放牧，
- And they have documented a 50-percent increase in the production of the land in the first year.
- 他们的记录显示，第一年土地的产量有50%的增长。
- We now have in the violent Horn of Africa pastoralists planning their grazing to mimic nature
- 现在在冲突不断的非洲之角（非洲大陆最东的地区）牧民们通过规牧群游牧活动模仿大自然，
- and openly saying it is the only hope they have of saving their families and saving their culture.
- 并公开的表示这是他们唯一的希望，来哺育他们的家人，挽救他们的文化。
- Ninety-five percent of that land can only feed people from animals.
- 这块地的95%的人依靠动物为生。
- I remind you that I am talking about most of the world's land here that controls our fate,
- 我要提醒大家，世界上大部分的土地都是如此，它们掌握着人类的命运，
- including the most violent region of the world, where only animals can feed people from about 95 percent of the land.
- 包括世界最暴力的地区，这些土地上有95%的人以动物作为唯一的食物来源。
- What we are doing globally is causing climate change as much as, I believe, fossil fuels, and maybe more than fossil fuels.
- 这种全球范围的人类行为导致了气候变化，我相信这种原因的重要性至少和化石燃料一样，可能比化石燃料还多。
- But worse than that, it is causing hunger, poverty, violence, social breakdown and war,
- 更糟的是，它引起饥饿、贫困、暴力、社会崩溃和战争，
- and as I am talking to you, millions of men, women and children are suffering and dying.
- 正如我刚才告诉你们的，数以百万计的男人、女人和孩子正在遭受痛苦和死亡。
- And if this continues, we are unlikely to be able to stop the climate changing, even after we have eliminated the use of fossil fuels.
- 如果这种情况持续下去，即使我们停止使用了化石燃料，我们可能也无法阻止气候的改变了。
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