珍妮·古道尔博士 | 未来仍有希望

When I was told at school that there was no way I could go to Africa live with wild animals and write books about them. I had no idea being a scientist. Girls weren't scientists back then. But writing books, yes...I was told that there was no way that this could happen, didn't have money, was just a girl, and Africa was far away, we called it the Dark Continent back then.当我还在学校读书时就被告知，我不可能去非洲与野生动物一起生活，也不可能写关于它们的书。我根本不知道自己会是个科学家。那时候女性科学家很少很少。但是写书，是的......我被告知这是不可能发生的，因为我没有钱，而且只是个女孩，而且非洲很遥远，那时我们称它为黑暗大陆。
We're now back in 1944, but my mother said:” No, if you really want to do something like this, you're going to have to work really hard, take advantage of every opportunity. And if you don't give up, hopefully you find a way.”回到1944年，那时候我母亲说：“不，如果你真的想做成某件事，你就必须非常努力地工作，抓住每一个机会。如果你不放弃，你总会找到实现它的办法。”
And then I met Lewis Leaky and it was Lewis Leaky who amazingly gave me the opportunity to go and live with and study, not just any animal but the one most like us. And that was... it was like a kind of fate I would have studied any animal, any animal to be out in the bush.然后我遇到了路易斯·李奇，是他给了我一个机会，让我去研究动物，和它们一起生活。它们不是普通的动物，而是最像我们的动物。这就......这就像是一种缘分，因为我本可以研究生活在丛林的任意一种动物。
And here I am landed with an animal who shares 98.7% of our DNA of closest relative, even closer than the gorilla and closer again from the orangutan. And they were the best days of my life being out in the forest, learning about the interconnection of all the species of plants and animals in the forest ecosystem.在这里，我遇到了一种和我们DNA 98.7%相同的动物，它是我们的近亲，甚至比大猩猩和猩猩还亲。在森林里的这些日子是我一生中最美好的时光，我了解了森林生态系统中所有动植物间的相互联系。
Every single one of us that means everybody in this room too, we all make some impact on the planet every single day. And certainly, we have the choice as to what kind of impact we're going to make.我们每个人，也就是在座的各位，每天都在对地球产生影响。当然，我们可以选择我们要产生什么样的影响。
And if we start thinking about what we buy, what we eat, what we wear; if we ask ourselves did this product when it was made harm the environment? Was it cruel to animals? Is it cheap because of unfair wages? Then we have a choice and consumer pressure is beginning to change the way some businesses work.如果我们开始思考买什么、吃什么、穿什么；然后扪心自问，这种产品在生产时是否对环境造成了伤害；它对动物是否残忍；它是否因为低微的工资而便宜，那么我们就有了选择，而消费者的压力也将改变一些企业的运作方式。
Nature's resilient it's having a tough time, now because of us, it isn't natural for a whole forest to be clear cut. And it takes a lot of effort to bring the forest back but you can and it's been done. And there are examples from all over the world of places that we have utterly destroyed, given time and perhaps some help can once again bring back nature in all her beauty.大自然具有顽强的生命力，现在因为人类的存在，它正经历着一段艰难的时期，整片森林被砍伐是不寻常的。w要想让森林恢复，需要付出很多努力，我们可以做到，而且已经做到了。世界各地都有这样的例子，那些被我们彻底毁坏的地方，经过时间的洗礼，或许在一些人的帮助下，可以再次让大自然恢复美丽。