第十一个小时（2007）

This is Gulf Coast 3629, radio 811.
这里是海湾海岸3628，无线调频811
We gotta mobilize that area.
这个地区需要迁移
– Responding to incident.
这是对事件的报导
When you look at the history of humanity…
当你纵观人类发展的历史
…it’s basically a relationship between the two most complicated systems on Earth:
基本上是地球上最复杂 的两大系统之间的关系
Human society and nature.
人类社会和自然
And whether people have, in fact, lived in a good balance in that regard.
实际上，人类是否能协调这种关系
When they don’t, they’re gone.
如果不能，人类就要灭亡了
At the end of the day, when we all talk about saving the environment…
现今，人们正在用 虚伪的方式谈论如何拯救环境
…in a way it’s misstated because the environment is going to survive.
其实也许环境本身是可以自救的
We’re the ones who may not survive.
而是我们无法再生存了
Or we may survive in a world we don’t particularly wanna live in.
或许我们依然能够存活下来， 但并不是我们期待的世界
Our biosphere is sick.
我们的生物圈失衡了
We have a planet that’s behaving like an infected organism.
地球就像是一个被感染的有机体
If you look at it from space, you see all these lights…
如果你从太空上看，你会发现这些光
…and it’s the lights of planet Earth, it’s the lights of the people…
来自地球的光芒，来自人类的光芒
…but it’s also almost like looking at an organism that has an infection on it…
但它又像是来自 一个被感染的有机体内的光
…that is forming a crust of some kind.
从而形成了某种物体的躯壳
Well, I don’t only think that the biosphere is in trouble…
其实，我所担心的不仅仅 是我们的生物圈遇到了麻烦
…I know it is.
虽然我知道这是事实
I just have to look around in the environment in which I live.
我环顾自己生存的环境
What I hear in my dreams…
在梦中，我听到
…is generations in the future screaming back to us in time…
我们的后代总在向我们惊声尖叫
…saying, “What are you doing? Don’t you see?”
大喊：「你们意识到 你们究竟在做什么吗？ 」
We are at this critical point in time.
我们正处在严峻的时刻
We’ve evolved to be the leaders of our biological community. We are misleading.
我们现在是这个生物群的领导者， 但是我们却一直在误导
We are causing the devastation…
我们破坏了我们生存系统的基础
…to our very foundation of our life system that has given us birth.
而它正是我们生存的环境
And we are ultimately committing suicide.
这就等同于自杀
So as we destroy nature, we will be destroyed in the process.
所以，当我们破坏自然时， 我们就在毁灭自身
There’s no escaping that conclusion.
我们没办法逃避这种结果
Earth ‘s life-support system ‘s damaged.
地球上支持生命的系统已经被破坏
The human species at risk.
人类遇到了前所未有的危险
Could this be true?
这些都是真的吗？
In this film, we’ve reached out to independent experts on the frontlines…
这部电影中，我们接触到了一些专家
… of what could be the greatest challenge of our time:
他们在最富挑战的前线工作
The collapse of our planet’s ecosystems…
地球的生态系统逐渐崩溃
… and our search for solutions to create a sustainable future.
我们正在寻找一种方法， 它能解决未来可持续发展的问题
So if we look for the cause of this planetary destruction…
如果我们寻找 导致地球毁灭的原因的话
… what would we find?
我们会发现什么呢？
We would find a global civilization created by the human mind.
那就是人类创造的人类全球文明
A mind that has evolved to have the ability to reflect back on ourselves…
它会在发挥作用的同时， 深深的影响自身
…to take stock of our own existence.
用我们的生存当作赌注
A mind able to discover quantum physics, explore outer space…
人类能运用量子力学来探测太空
…and peer into our own DNA.
也能研究我们的DNA
But beyond our stunning intellectual and technological advances…
但就在我们为这些 高科技的成果而惊叹不已时
…we would also see our large-scale impact on our home, planet Earth.
会发现它们的影响 也波及到我们的家园，地球
Ecological disasters are rarely covered.
生态灾难很难形成
But when they are, they’re depicted as isolated incidents by the media.
可是一旦形成，就会被 媒体描述成一种突发的孤立事件
But if we connect these events…
但是如果我们将这些事件连接起来看
…will we find a larger story that needs to be told? A human story.
难道发现不到什么隐含的故事吗？ 是一个人类的故事
And more so than that…
不仅如此……
…a global understanding that takes into account who we are…
全球人类开始深思，我们究竟是谁
…and the state of our relationship to this planet, our only home.
开始思考我们与我们的家园 –地球的关系
Life on Earth is possible…
生存环境的参数 处在特定的狭窄的区域时
…only because a number of parameters lie in certain very narrow ranges.
地球上才会出现生命
Some of these are clearly environmental.
这些就是我们生存的环境
Like the Earth has the right temperature and pressure to have lived with water.
比如地球有适合人类 生存的温度、压力和水
Creation is the universe.
创造力是无穷的
Creation is everything that we can see and probably a whole lot that we can’t.
创造力包括我们能看到的 或者看不到的一切
Probably more that we can’t see.
也许已经超越我们的想象力范畴
But it’s what’s about us…
但它与我们息息相关
…and it’s the relationship…
是人类和自然的关系
…this amazing web of life that we have here.
它是一种令人惊异的生命网
Well, Earth is a planet that’s just far enough from the sun…
地球，距离太阳很远
…and has just enough of that atmosphere of a certain composition…
这个距离足以让地球形成生命
…that more heat stays here than radiates out to space.
地球能维持住足够的热能， 而不是反射出去
And the sun warms the planet and that heat radiates out.
太阳温暖着地球，热能又能反射出去
There’s gases in the atmosphere that have always trapped some of that heat.
大气层能够捕捉住这些热能
So we’re not an ice ball.
所以地球才不会成为一个冰球
Scientists have compared the different planets…going away from the sun as being like the Goldilocks effect.
科学家们比较了距离太阳 不同距离的星球
There’s one that’s too cold, too warm and just right…
这些星球有的太冷、 有的太热，有的适中
…and we just happen to be there.
我们的地球就是温度适中的
Forty million centuries ago, that a cell formed…
四千万世纪以前，第一个细胞形成了
…and that cell had a gene, and that gene is the password…
这个细胞里带着基因， 这个基因就是生物密♥码♥
…to every single other form of life there is.
它标志着与其它生命的不同
And the amazing thing about the human body…
人类的惊奇之处在于
…is it has one hundred trillion cells and 90 percent of them are not human cells.
世界上大概有100兆种的细胞， 90%都不是人类的细胞
They’re fungi and bacteria, microorganisms.
大部分都是菌类和细菌，还有微生物
And the thing that makes us human is not human.
让我们成为人类的因素 并不是我们自身
So within us is basically the back-story of life on Earth…
人类身体内部隐藏着 地球上生物的秘密
…right to that first original cell 40 million centuries ago.
回顾四千万个世纪前的 第一个原始细胞
And if you could, for a moment…
如果可能的话
…stop and feel what is happening in your body…
我们可以停止并感受一下 身体内发生的变化
…there are six septillion things going on at the same time.
在同一时刻，有六乘以一千的 八次方多个细胞同时工作
That’s a six with 24 zeros after it, okay, going on right now.
就是说一个6后面跟着24个零， 好，我们继续
Right this instant, as you sit in your chair and then in the next instance…
这一刻，你坐在椅子上
…within 10 seconds, a hundred more things have happened…
而下一个10秒中内，会发生很多事情
…than in all the stars and planets and asteroids…
数量比各行星、小行星 发生的事件还多
…in the known universe in your body, and that is called life.
而它就发生在你的身体中， 这就是生命
Homo sapiens sapiens is an incredibly young species.
现代人是一个难以置信的新物种
We don’t think of that. But we are.
虽然我们没有意识到，但这是事实
We came very late in the calendar year of the Earth.
在地球生命中的年历中， 我们出现的很晚
You know, if the Earth calendar…
我是指，如果地球有年历的话……
…you know, where it started in January 1 and now we’re December 31 st.
如果地球形成是在1月1日， 我们现在是在12月31日的话
We got here 15 minutes before midnight on December 31 st…
我们仅仅是在12月31日 凌晨12点之前的15分钟出现
…and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last 60 seconds.
而所有被记录下来的历史 都在上一个60秒内眨眼而过
Perhaps the best description of what we are is, as Jared Diamond puts it:
也许用贾瑞.德戴尔门的话 来形容人类最贴切
The third chimpanzee.
我们就是第三代黑猩猩
There are two kinds of chimpanzees and there’s us.
以前有两代黑猩猩，而我们是第三代
But in some ways, we are extraordinarily special.
但是某种意义上讲， 我们又是非常特殊的物种
And the most obvious one is our extraordinary ability to make tools…
人类能制♥造♥使用工具 是我们不同于其它物种的标志
…our extraordinary ability to communicate.
除此，人类还能够交流
To have very detailed discussions with each other.
能和其它人进行细节讨论
So we are fundamentally groups of animals…
从根本上讲
…randomly scattered throughout the planet…
我们是分散在地球各个角落的 动物的群体
…slowly coalescing in groups…
又重新的慢慢的聚集
…that are more powerful, larger.
我们更加强大，更有能力
And very much conditioned by two essential characters:
同时我们又被两个必要的因素影响着
One is opportunism and the other one is greed.
一个是投机主义，另一个是贪婪
All the animals and vegetables are opportunistic creatures.
所有的动物和植物 都是投机取巧的生物
They do what’s necessary for them to do in order to survive.
他们为了生存而做一些必须做的工作
I think it was the human mind basically…
我认为基本上是人类思想的作用
…that threw us out of balance with the rest of nature.
才导致自然和人类关系的失衡
The tragedy is that it was the human mind…
可悲的是，正是人类的思想
…that was the key to our very survival.
成为了我们生存的关键
Now, when you think that we evolved in Africa about 150,000 years ago…
当你想象一下，15万年前，我们在非洲的祖先
…and compared to other animals on the plains at that time, we weren’t very impressive.
同其它动物对比一下， 我们并没有什么特别之处
We weren’t very many we weren’t very big, we weren’t gifted with special senses.
我们的数量并不庞大， 体型也不大，也没有什么特殊天赋
The one thing, the key to our survival…
正是人类的大脑
…and our taking over the planet was the human brain.
成为了我们生存和征服世界的关键
But because the human mind invented the concept of a future…
但正因为人类的思想拥有未来的概念
…we’re the only animal on the planet…
在这个概念里， 我们是地球上唯一的动物
…that actually was able to recognize…
而且我们认可
…we could affect the future by what we do today.
我们今天所做的一切都能够影响未来
We look ahead, recognize where the opportunities are…
我们能够抓住机会
…where the dangers lay, and choose accordingly to survive.
能够发现危险所在， 这样才能更好的生存
That was a great survival strategy of our species.
这就是人类物种伟大的生存策略
If the human mind threw us out of balance thousands of years ago…
如果在几千年前， 人类的思想导致了失衡
… what changed in recent history?
那么现在又会发生什么变化呢？