TED演讲稿_NaomiKlein_2010W沉迷于冒险.docxVIP

1.I just did something Ive never done before. 我刚做了些之前从未做过的事。2.I spent a week at sea on a research vessel. 我随一艘研究船在海上呆了一个礼拜。3.Now Im not a scientist, but I was accompanying a remarkable scientific team from the University of South Florida who have been tracking the travels of BPs oil 我不是名科学家， 但我与一个来自南佛罗里达大学的 杰出的科学团队一起 在墨西哥湾工作，这个团队在4.in the Gulf of Mexico. 跟踪英国石油公司泄漏石油的流向。5.This is the boat we were on, by the way. 顺便提一下，这是我们乘坐的船。6.The scientists I was with were not studying the effect of the oil and dispersants on the big stuff -- the birds, the turtles, the dolphins, the glamorous stuff. 与我一起的科学家们 不是在研究在大家伙上的石油和化油剂的影响-- 比如对鸟类、海龟、 海豚和迷人风景的影响。7.Theyre looking at the really little stuff that gets eaten by the slightly less little stuff that eventually gets eaten by the big stuff. 他们在找些很小的东西 这些小东西被更小的东西吃掉 并最终被大家伙所吞食。8.And what theyre finding is that even trace amounts of oil and dispersants can be highly toxic to phytoplankton, which is very bad news, 他们所研究的是 跟踪石油和在植物病理学上 有高度毒性的化油剂的数量， 这是个非常坏的消息，9.because so much life depends on it. 因为有许多的生命以此为生。10.So contrary to what we heard a few months back about how 75 percent of that oil sort of magically disappeared and we didnt have to worry about it, 因此，与我们数月之前听到的相反 大约百分之七十五的石油 神奇的消失了， 我们不需要再担心它了，11.this disaster is still unfolding. 但这场灾难仍然在蔓延。12.Its still working its way up the food chain. 它仍在不断向食物链上方产生影响。13.Now this shouldnt come as a surprise to us. 现在我们对这应该不会感到奇怪了。14.Rachel Carson -- the godmother of modern environmentalism -- warned us about this very thing back in 1962. 雷切尔·卡森-- 现代环境保护论的教母-- 早在1962年 就警告过我们。15.She pointed out that the control men -- as she called them -- who carpet-bombed towns and fields with toxic insecticides like DDT, 她指出，控制人员-- 她这么称呼他们-- 用有毒性的杀虫剂如滴滴涕（DDT）， 对城镇和田野进行地毯式轰炸，16.were only trying to kill the little stuff, the insects, not the birds. 仅仅是为了杀死些小东西，昆虫， 不是鸟类。17.But they forgot this: the fact that birds dine on grubs, that robins eat l