We Now Live in the Unnatural World
我们现在生活在非自然世界
David Biello’s new look is The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age.
大卫·别洛的新书是《非自然世界：地球新纪元重塑文明的竞赛》。
撰文/播音：史蒂夫·米尔斯基(Steve Mirsky)
翻译：郭鑫鹏
审校: 丁可含
The Unnatural World is the title of a new book by former Scientific American environment editor David Biello. The subtitle: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age. And that age has been dubbed the Anthropocene-in which humanity (anthro) has become, as the book puts it, a world-changing force of nature.
“非自然世界”是前科学美国人环境编辑大卫·别洛的一本新书标题。副标题是：地球新纪元重塑文明的竞赛。在书中，这里的纪元被称作“人类世”——人类成为改变自然和世界的力量。
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.
别洛最近在布鲁克林BookCourt书店谈论《非自然世界》这本书。他被问到在研究中遇到了哪些采取措施解决这个时代的问题的人物。
“His name is Fan Changwei, and he is an environmental bureaucrat in a small coastal town (Rizhao) in China. And he has been tasked by his provincial government and his local government with trying to turn a city carbon neutral. So this means that would emit no more 
than they also kind of took in and destroyed, which is a beautiful sounding circular economy, kind of concept-turns out 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…
“他的名字是范长伟，他是中国海滨城市日照的一名环保官员。他被省政府和当地政府交付了碳平衡任务。这表示释放的二氧化碳的量要少于吸收处理的二氧化碳量，听起来这样一个循环经济理念很美好——然后Fan发现实践起来有难以想象的困难。这是我们都会面对的困难，它在中国比起其他地方更为重要。印度仅次于中国。
“You know, we have cleaner air, cleaner water, and that’s because we decided that we didn’t want killer 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.”
“如你所知，我们有更干净的空气和水，因为我们不希望有致命烟雾。中国人真在做这样的事，印度也决定在致命烟雾没出现前进行预防。
More from David Biello about his book The Unnatural World in an upcoming episode of the Science Talk podcast.
更多有关大卫·别洛和他的书《非自然世界》，请关注即将到来的科学对话播客视频。
-Steve Mirsky
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