Name: America's wilderness is for sale
Uploaded: 2020-08-18T18:15:12.000Z
Duration: 10 min 27 s

程度副詞

This water is so clean, you can drink it.

情態副詞

I've been drinking out of this river for probably fifty years.

我從這條河裡喝了大概五十年的水。

That's because the water here comes from one of the most

這是因為這裡的水來自於一個最古老的地方

We couldn't even fly our drone past this point.

我們連無人機都飛不過這個點。

These are the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota's Superior National Forest.

這些是明尼蘇達州北部高級國家森林的邊界水域。

Thousands of pristine lakes like this one.

Hundreds of thousands of people come to see it every year.

The Boundary Waters is just outside one of the largest

分界線水域就在最大的邊界之一的外面。

the Trump administration has opened up more than 13 million acres

特朗普政府已經開闢了超過1300萬英畝的土地。

that's more than any previous administration,

including a part of Superior National Forest,

Copper, the mineral underneath the forest, is the

銅，是森林下的礦物，是森林中的。

wiring in our phones, the pipes in our walls.

我們電話裡的電線，牆壁上的管道。

And we also need it for electric car batteries,

而我們也需要它來做電動車電池。

和太陽能電池板，以及風力發電機。

and there aren't that many places in the world to get it.

而且世界上沒有那麼多地方可以買到它。

All this has renewed a really old and complicated question:

所有這一切都使一個真正古老而複雜的問題再次出現。

when is it worth risking the life above ground

何時才值得冒著生命危險在地面上行走

The US has more than 600 million acres of national parks,

They are the brainchild of President Theodore Roosevelt.

它們是西奧多-羅斯福總統的心血結晶。

He worried that the reckless speed logging, blast rock mining, and oil drilling that

他擔心不計後果的快速伐木、爆破岩石開採和石油鑽探，會影響人們的生活。

fueled the Industrial Revolution could ruin the country's beauty and resources

工業革命的動力可能會毀掉這個國家的美麗和資源。

So he created 150 national forests and parks, 18 national

所以他創建了150個國家森林和公園，18個國家公園。

紀念碑，以及51個鳥類保護區。

I mean, get up on a high mountain somewhere and

我的意思是，得到了在高山上的某個地方，並。

remember that somebody saved that so that you could have that experience and

記住，有人保存了這一點，所以你可以有這樣的經驗，並。

We call them drinking water lakes, because

you can dip your cup right out the side of your canoe and drink straight from

你可以把你的杯子從你的獨木舟上浸出來，然後直接從那裡喝水

the lakes without even treating them or anything.

湖泊甚至沒有處理它們或任何東西。

Jason owns a business that outfits visitors for canoe trips in the

傑森擁有一家公司，為遊客提供獨木舟旅行的裝備。

They come here because what we have is so special and it's so

他們來這裡是因為我們的東西是如此的特別，它是如此的。

unique you just can't you can't have this sort of an experience anyplace else

獨特的你只是不能 你不能有這樣的經驗 任何其他地方的

in the world. To have, you know, a million acres totally undeveloped.

在世界上。有，你知道，一百萬英畝的土地完全沒有開發。

The recreation and tourism industry here is big.

它每年帶來約7700萬美元的收入。

The problem is, that's not enough to support the entire region.

問題是，這還不足以支撐整個地區的發展。

Seasonal recreation workers typically make about twenty-five thousand dollars a year.

季節性娛樂工人的年薪一般在兩萬五千元左右。

That's less than the state's average income.

You're not going to be able to raise a family on $25,000 a year.

你不可能靠每年25000美元養家餬口。

You're not even going to be able to buy a house.

well over a hundred years, and so it has a big significance.

以及一百多年來，所以它的意義很大。

There are lot of second, third, fourth, generation miners that have always worked in the

有很多第二代、第三代、第四代礦工，一直在礦區工作。

mine or their family has worked in the mine.

mine near the Boundary Waters, Twin Metals, has said they'll pay about $90,000

Boundary Waters附近的礦場，Twin Metals公司表示，他們將支付約9萬美元。

a year, which is well over the state's average income.

年，遠遠超過國家的平均收入。

But copper mining is also risky in ways that iron mining wasn't.

但銅礦開採的風險也是鐵礦開採所沒有的。

For the last two years, the Twin Metals company has been

這是一個典型的核心樣本，這些

little blocks that you're seeing in here really establish how deep we are below

你在這裡看到的小塊 真正建立了我們在下面有多深。

一旦我們到達這裡，755英尺，這是

The copper is locked inside this shiny part here.

銅被鎖在這個閃閃發光的部位裡面。

To get it out, you have to crush up the rock to a powder-like consistency

要想把它弄出來，就得把石頭壓碎，變成粉末狀。

copper only makes up about 1% of the sample, which means 99% of it is waste.

銅只佔樣品的1%左右，也就是說99%的銅都是廢物。

The crushed up rock is submerged in a solution that floats the copper to the top.

將破碎的岩石浸入溶液中，使銅浮到上面。

It's eventually what becomes wires, pipes, and everything else.

最終才會變成電線、管道等一切。

And the waste rock sinks. That's the risky part.

而廢石會沉下去。這就是風險的部分。

It contains toxic elements like arsenic, lead, and mercury,

它含有砷、鉛、汞等有毒元素。

which were previously trapped inside the rock.

And usually, when mining companies produce toxic waste,

而通常情況下，當礦業公司產生有毒廢物。

他們把它儲存在巨大的坑裡，像這樣。

It may be the worst environmental disaster

在不列顛哥倫比亞省的歷史上。

3 million gallon toxic stew of heavy metals poured downstream.

300萬加侖的有毒重金屬燉肉倒入下游。

and the question that everyone here is just stunned by is how this could ever

這裡的每個人都只是震驚的問題 是，這怎麼可能永遠的

And even when there isn't one of these huge,

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