珍妮·古道尔博士 | 2021年世界地球日致辞

Hello, this is Jane Goodall with a message for Earth Day, Earth Day 2021.

大家好，我是珍妮·古道尔。我想在2021年的地球日传达一个信息。

It should be a day to celebrate the existence of Planet Earth with its amazing diversity of plant and animal species, its beautiful forests and oceans, rivers and wetlands, prairies, and all the other wonderful habitats, a small green and blue sphere circling the sun.

这一天应该是庆祝地球存在的一天，庆祝这个有着种类繁多的动植物，广袤美丽的森林海洋、河流湿地、草原平川和所有其他奇妙的栖息地，环绕太阳运转的蓝绿色小星球。

Of course, the sun has other planets, but Planet Earth is our home and it's our only home. Earth Day is a day to reflect not only on the wonders of our planet but also on the harm that we've humans have inflicted on it. A few years ago, I was honored by the Cherokee people with a Naming Ceremony.

当然，还有其他行星，但地球是我们的家园，我们唯一的家园。在地球日我们要反思的不仅有地球上的这些奇迹，还有我们人类对它造成的伤害。几年前，我有幸受到切罗基人民命名仪式的表彰。

The native name they gave me translates as sister to Mother Earth. It's one of the greatest honors I've ever received. I was thinking about this the other day and I fell into a strange state, a bit like a waking dream it was. I was someone in the space looking down on my Sister Earth, so threatened by human activities.

他们给我起的本地名字翻译过来意思就是“地球母亲的姊妹”，这是我所获得的最高荣誉之一。前几天我在想到这件事时，陷入了一种奇怪的状态，就好像我醒着在做梦。我成了在太空中俯视着我的地球姊妹的人，因为人类的活动，已经让她遍体鳞伤。

The waves of the sea seemed to be asking me to clean the water from pollution and plastic. The fish wanted to be saved from huge drift nets. And all the animals of the ocean were desperate for a way to escape the non-stop, terrible sonar noise. It was making their lives unbearable.

海浪似乎都在恳求我帮它清理海水中的污染物和塑料垃圾，鱼儿们都想让我从巨大的流网中，把它们救出来。海洋中的所有动物都拼命想要逃脱永不停歇的可怕的声纳噪音，它们已经不堪其扰。

The trees were reaching towards me with their branches even as a giant machine was slicing through their living trunks. The forest was weeping tears of sap begging to be saved. The tall golden grass of one of the small remaining patches of the prairies was sighing in the wind.

树木把枝丫伸向我，而巨大的机器正在锯断它们活生生的树干。森林洒下哭泣的汁液，苦苦乞求救援。大草原仅剩的一小片斑驳中高高的枯草在风中叹息。

And everywhere, the animals were reaching towards me. Frogs and water birds pleaded as their homes were relentlessly drained for yet another industrial complex. Elephants and rhinos, lions and tigers, pangolins and bears and sharks cried out as they were killed for their tusks, and horns, and scales, and bile, and fins.

四处都是向我求救的动物。青蛙和水鸟哀求我，因为他们的家园被无情地抽干，建成了一个又一个工业园区。大象、犀牛、狮子、老虎、穿山甲、熊以及鲨鱼都在悲惨地号叫，因为人类为了得到它们的象牙、角、鳞片、胆汁和鱼鳍，正在残忍地杀害他们。

There were animals struggling in vain to escape wild snares and leghold traps. Plants and birds and small mammals and the soil itself was slowly dying from the agricultural chemicals sprayed on to our food.

动物徒劳地挣扎着想逃脱陷阱和罗网。植物、鸟类、小型哺乳动物以及土壤本身都正因为喷洒在食物上的农药而濒临死亡。

It was not only among these animals that there was pain and suffering and despair, there were millions of people living in poverty and children crying out with the pain of hunger.

痛苦绝望的不仅仅有这些动物，还有数以百万的人生活在贫困当中，还有许许多多的儿童在饥饿的痛苦中嚎啕大哭。

There were people fleeing their homes that were no longer habitable because of climate change, or because of persecution or armed conflict. There were people without jobs sleeping on the streets.

由于气候变化、无辜迫害或武装冲突，有人被迫逃离了不再宜居的家园，有的失业者甚至只能露宿街头。

We must remember we are animals too and we are part of and not separated from the natural world. We depend on Mother Earth for clean air, and water, and food, and everything.

我们必须牢记，我们自己也是动物，我们也是自然界的一份子，我们与自然界不可分离。我们的清新空气、水、食物以及所有的一切都依赖于地球母亲。

In my waking dream, I wept for Mother Earth, and then softly at first, then louder and louder came the pattering of feet and the hushed voices of hundreds, no, thousands, millions, millions of children, children running to save the trees and the rivers and the oceans, running to help the animals and nurture the soil.

在我清醒的梦里，我为地球母亲哭泣，刚开始轻轻地，然后越来越响的脚步声和数百，不，是数百万孩子们的沙哑声音。孩子们为保护树木、河流和海洋而奔波，为帮助动物以及滋养土壤而忙碌。

"We're coming. We will save you. We will fight for you," they whispered. They were from every country, every culture, every religion. They were coming in togetherness, and they were reaching back to their parents and grandparents and their friends. "Mother Earth needs all of us," they were saying.

“我们来了，我们来救你们了，我们会为你们而战”他们低声说。他们来自各个国家、各种文化、各个宗教，他们团结一心，并向他们的父母、祖父母和朋友发出呼吁。“地球母亲需要我们所有人的努力，”他们说。

Well, now I'm back in my little attic room, my office and the studio for the duration of this pandemic. What shall I say to you this Earth Day?

因为新冠疫情的持续蔓延，现在我回到了我的小阁楼房间，也是我的办公室和工作室。在这个地球日，我想对大家说些什么呢？

It's a day to plan what we each can do to heal some of the harm that we've inflicted. We've all been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in some way or other.

这是每个人指定计划采取措施来治愈我们所造成的一切伤害的一天。我们所有人都在某种程度上受到了新冠疫情的影响。

So today on Earth Day, let's remember that we brought this pandemic on ourselves by our disrespect of Mother Earth and our disrespect of animals, for we have created conditions around the world that made it easier for pathogens to spill over from animals to people and create a new disease.

因此，在今天的地球日，让我们铭记，是我们自己造成了这场灾难，是我们对地球母亲和动物的不尊重为这一大型传染病创造了全球性条件，使病原体更容易从动物传播到人类身上，并变异出新的疾病。

We created conditions such as the destruction of habitats, wildlife markets, factory farms, and the trafficking of animals or their body parts around the world. At the same time, we inflict fear and pain on millions of sentient beings, each one an individual with his or her personality, and emotions.

我们创造的条件包括破坏动物栖息地、野生动物市场、工厂化农场，以及在世界范围内贩卖动物或其身体部位等等。同时，我们也给千百万众生造成了恐惧和痛苦，但每一个体都有血有肉有情感。

We need to reflect too on this Earth Day, how this same disrespect of the natural world has led to the twin threats to our future, climate change and loss of biodiversity. The effects of climate change are already apparent around the globe.

在这个地球日，我们也需要反思：同样是因为我们对自然界的不尊重，我们的未来正在面临气候变化以及生物多样性减少的双重威胁。气候变化带来的影响已经在全球范围内凸显。

On this Earth Day, let's think about how we can create a different and respectful relationship with the environment and with animals, and a new, more sustainable economy.

值此地球日之际，让我们思考如何与环境和动物建立一种与当前不同的、相互尊重的关系，一种更可持续发展的经济。

Let's work to end discrimination, alleviate poverty, and reduce the gap between thehaves and the have-nots because it's the social injustice that leads to so much of the justifiable resentment and anger that can lead to rioting and violence, and of course, it also leads to misery.

让我们努力消除歧视，减轻贫困，缩小贫富差距，因为正是社会的不公导致了那么多情理之中的怨恨和愤怒，从而又导致了骚乱和暴力，当然，还有痛苦。

We must learn to live in peace and harmony with each other before we can all live in peace and harmony with Mother Nature and the animals. There's one important message I want to share with you.

我们必须先学会彼此和睦相处，这样我们才能与大自然母亲和动物和睦相处。我想与大家分享一则重要信息。

There are so many amazing people out there fighting for Planet Earth, for her people, her animals, her environment, especially among the indigenous people who've been custodians of the natural world throughout their long history.

现在有许多了不起的人都正在为地球而战，为地球上的人类、动物、环境而战，特别是一些土著居民，在历史的长河中，他们一直是自然界的守护者。

Some amazing documentary films list the wonders of nature so that more and more people realize the importance of working to protect these wonders for future generations. There are companies working hard to ensure that their products are ethically sourced and produced.

一些令人惊叹的纪录片拍出了自然奇观，这让越来越多的人意识到为子孙后代保护这些奇观的重要性。有些公司也在努力保证他们的产品以符合道德方式采购和生产。

There are programs like the Jane Goodall Institute's TACARE program that help people in poverty find ways of making aliving without destroying their environment, because you cut down the last trees and fish the last fish in desperation to feed your family otherwise.

像珍妮·古道尔研究所的TACARE计划，这样的计划可以帮助贫困人口在不破坏环境的情况下找到谋生的方法。否则你就只能绝望地砍倒最后一棵树，钓上最后一条鱼，来养活家人。

There's increasing interest in producing food in partnership with Mother Nature, methods like permaculture, regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, small family farming.

食物生产的趋势是与自然相结合，比如永续农业，再生农业，复合农林，小家庭农业等。

If food grown in a sustainable way without chemicals costs a bit more, well, we value it more and we waste less. The waste of food around the world is shocking, especially when we think of all the people living without even one good meal a day.

如果以不用化学物质的可持续方式种植食物，食物价格高一点，那么，我们就会更珍惜食物并减少浪费。全世界的食物浪费状况令人震惊，尤其是当我们想到那些连一顿像样的饭都吃不上的人们。

Innovative technologies are continually finding new ways for us to live in harmony with nature, as scientists use the brilliant intellect that we have been gifted with. Each of us is beginning to think more carefully about our own ecological footprint.

科技创新不断为我们寻找能使我们与自然和谐相处的新方法，科学家们正发挥我们天赋的杰出智慧，而我们每个人都开始更加认真地思考我们自己的生态足迹。

So today, let's all think how we can each do our bit, for every single one of us has a role to play, and each one of us can make a difference. Let's all work together, parents and children, corporations and NGOs, governments, and the general public. Let's make a list of things we can do to make this a better world for people, animals, and for Planet Earth.

因为我们每个人都扮演着自己的角色，我们每个人都能带来改变，所以今天让我们一起思考我们如何做好自己该做的事。让我们所有人，不论男女老少，公司还是非政府组织，政府或是公众，让我们列出一些我们可以做的事情，为人类、动物、地球共创一个更美好的世界。

Not just today, but every day. Let's think of every day as Earth Day. Thank you.

不仅仅是今天而是每一天，让我们把每一天都当作地球日吧。谢谢大家。

Notes:

the other day

a few days ago 前几天，几天前

Didn't I see you in the post office the other day? 

前几天我不是还在邮局见过你吗？

relentless

a) not stopping or getting less strong不停的;持续强烈的;不减弱的 [同义词]unrelenting

She has relentless pursuit of perfection.

她对完美有不懈追求。

relentless struggle

不懈奋斗

b) refusing to give up or be less strict or severe 不放弃的;严格的;苛刻的;无情的

relentless enemy

残酷的敌人

pathogen

any small organism, such as a virus or abacterium that can cause disease 病原体

a dangerous pathogen 

一种危险的病原体

haves and have-nots

the people who are not poor and the people who are poor 富人和穷人

The government's change of policy isintended to reduce the gap between the haves and have-nots in our society. 

政府改变政策，目的是缩小我们社会中富人与穷人的差距。

indigenous

naturally existing in a place or country rather than arriving from another place 当地的；本土的，土生土长的

So who are the indigenous people of this land?

那么谁是这块土地上的原住民？

custodians

a person with responsibility for protecting or taking care of something or keeping something in good condition 监护人；监管人；看护人；保管人

the custodian of a museum/ castle

博物馆／城堡的看护人