Name: 【TED】被塑膠充斥的海洋－查理斯．摩爾 Captain Charles Moore on the seas of plastic
Uploaded: 2012-11-30T10:48:30.000Z
Duration: 7 min 21 s

進階被動語態

to renounce the powerful conservation ethic

we developed during the Great Depression and World War II.

我們在大蕭條和第二次世界大戰期間發展起來的。

After the war, we needed to direct our enormous production capacity

戰爭結束後，我們需要引導我們巨大的生產能力。

toward creation of products for peacetime.

朝著為和平時期創造產品的方向發展。

by announcing the introduction of throwaways

that would liberate the housewife from the drudgery of doing dishes.

這將使家庭主婦從洗碗的苦差事中解放出來。

throwaway plastics take a lot of space and don't biodegrade.

扔掉的塑膠佔據了很多空間，而且不生物降解。

Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest.

只有我們人類製造的廢物，自然無法消化。

A teacher told me how to express the under-five-percent

一位老師告訴我，如何表達五分之一以下的情況

of plastics recovered in our waste stream.

我們的廢物流中回收的塑膠比例。

Now, melting point has a lot to do with this.

Plastic is not purified by the re-melting process like glass and metal.

塑膠不像玻璃和金屬那樣經過再熔鍊過程淨化。

It begins to melt below the boiling point of water

Half of each year's 100 billion points of thermal plastic pellets

每年的1000億點熱塑料顆粒中，有一半是熱塑料顆粒。

在我們的垃圾中，有很大一部分是不守規矩的。

Here is the accumulation at Biona Creek next to the airport.

這裡是機場旁邊的比昂納溪的積澱。

And here is the flotsam near California State University Long Beach

這裡是加州州立大學長灘分校附近的碎屑

and the de-sal plant we visited yesterday.

much of this trash leading out to the sea will be plastic beverage bottles.

這些通向大海的垃圾大部分都是塑膠飲料瓶。

We use two million of them in the United States every five minutes,

在美國，我們每5分鐘就會使用200萬個。

here imaged by TED presenter Chris Jordan

此處為TED主講人克里斯-喬丹的圖片。

who artfully documents mass consumption and zooms in for more detail.

他藝術地記錄了大眾消費，並放大了更多的細節。

Here is a remote island repository for bottles

這裡是一個偏遠島嶼的瓶子存放處。

Isla San Roque is an uninhabited bird rookery

聖羅克島是一個無人居住的鳥類棲息地。

off Baja's sparsely-populated central coast.

靠近巴哈'人煙稀少的中央海岸。

Notice that the bottles here have caps on them.

注意，這裡的瓶子是有蓋子的。

Bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate, PET,

聚對苯二甲酸乙二醇酯（PET）製成的瓶子。

will sink in seawater and not make it this far from civilization.

會在海水中沉沒，不會離文明這麼遠。

Also, the caps are produced in separate factories

另外，瓶蓋是在不同的工廠生產的

but unfortunately do not get recycled under the bottle bills.

但遺憾的是沒有得到回收的瓶鈔下。

Let's trace the journey of the millions of caps

讓我們來追尋百萬蓋帽的歷程吧。

After a year the ones from Japan are heading straight across the Pacific,

一年後，日本的那些人就直奔太平洋彼岸。

while ours get caught in the California current

而我們的則被捲入加州的潮流中

and first head down to the latitude of Cabo San Lucas.

並首先下到卡波聖盧卡斯的緯度。

After ten years, a lot of the Japanese caps

are in what we call the Eastern Garbage Patch,

After 20 years, we see emerging the debris accumulation zone

20年後，我們看到了新興的碎片堆積區。

in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument

在西北夏威夷群島國家紀念碑中

forage here and scavenge whatever they can find

Hundreds of thousands of the goose-sized chicks are dying

數十萬只鵝大的小雞正在死去。

with stomachs full of bottle caps and other rubbish

肚子裡裝滿了瓶蓋和其他垃圾。

Sadly, their parents mistake bottle caps for food

可悲的是，他們的父母把瓶蓋當成了食物。

also have consequences for aquatic animals.

still alive at a zookeeper's home in New Orleans.

還活在新奧爾良的一個動物園管理員'的家中。

I wanted to see what my home town of Long Beach was contributing to the problem,

我想看看我的家鄉長灘鎮是什麼原因導致了這個問題。

I went to the Long Beach Peninsula at the east end of our long beach.

I offered five cents each for bottle caps.

我出了五分錢一個瓶蓋的價格。

Here are the 1,100 bottle caps they collected.

and put them on display the next Earth Day

並在下一個地球日將它們展示出來

at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pidro.

在聖皮德羅的卡布裡洛海洋水族館。

Governor Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria stopped by to discuss the display.

州長施瓦辛格和他的妻子瑪麗亞來到這裡討論展覽。

In spite of my "girly man" hat, crocheted from plastic shopping bags,

儘管我的"女漢子"帽子，用塑膠購物袋鉤織而成。

I showed him and Maria a zooplankton trawl

我給他和瑪麗亞看了一個浮游動物拖網。

Here's what our trawl samples from the plastic soup our ocean has become look like.

這裡'是我們的拖網樣品從塑膠湯我們的海洋已經成為像。

Trawling a zooplankton net on the surface for a mile

在海面上拖動浮游動物網一英里。

Now, when the debris washes up on the beaches of Hawaii

現在，當這些碎片被衝上夏威夷的海灘時

And this particular beach is Kailua Beach,

而這個特別的海灘就是凱路亞海灘。

the beach where our president and his family vacationed before moving to Washington.

我們的總統和他的家人在搬到華盛頓前度假的海灘。

Now, how do we analyze samples like this one

現在，我們如何分析像這樣的樣本？

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