科学美国人60秒 SSS We Now Live in the Unnatural World
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：2016年Scientific American(十一)月
The Unnatural 1 World is the title of a new book by former Scientific American environment editor David Biello. The subtitle 2: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age. And that age has been dubbed 3 the Anthropocene—in which humanity (anthro) has become, as the book puts it, a world-changing force of nature.
Biello talked about The Unnatural World recently at the BookCourt bookstore in Brooklyn. He was asked who he met in his research who stood out as someone trying to take steps to address the issues of this age.
“His name is Fan Changwei, and he is an environmental bureaucrat 4 in a small coastal 5 town (Rizhao) in China. And he has been tasked by his provincial 6 government and his local government with trying to turn a city carbon neutral. So this means that would emit no more CO2 than they also kind of took in and destroyed, which is a beautiful sounding circular economy kind of concept—turns out to be incredibly difficult in practice, as Fan is finding out. And that struggle is the one that we’re all facing. And certainly it’s a struggle that, it’s more important that it happen in China than anywhere else. And maybe India right after it…
“You know, we have cleaner air, cleaner water, and that’ because we decided 7 that we didn’t want killer 8 smogs, and the Chinese people are deciding that right now, and perhaps the Indians will decide not to have killer smogs before they have them.”
More from David Biello about his book The Unnatural World in an upcoming episode of the Science Talk podcast.
—Steve Mirsky
- Did her behaviour seem unnatural in any way?她有任何反常表现吗？
- She has an unnatural smile on her face.她脸上挂着做作的微笑。
- His new book has a subtitle.他的新书有一个副标题。
- Ah!I don't know why they don't subtitle these movies.唉！我不知道这些电影为什么不打字幕。
- Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
- Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was just another faceless bureaucrat.他只不过是一个典型呆板的官员。
- The economy is still controlled by bureaucrats.经济依然被官僚们所掌控。
- The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
- This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
- City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
- Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。