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So as bad as all that is, things are going to get much worse, much, much worse.
整个情况如此糟糕，而且将会每况愈下。
This is the infrastructure as we see it about now.
以上是我们目前所知的基础设施。
This is what's planned for 2015.
这是预定于2015年完成的施工计划。
And you can see here the Keystone Pipeline,
你可以看见图中的油砂输送系统，
which would take tar sands raw down to the Gulf Coast,
它将沥青砂原料运往墨西哥湾沿岸，
punching a pipeline through the heart,
管线穿越北美，
the agricultural heart of North America, of the United States,
及美国农业腹地，
and securing the contract with the dirtiest fuel in the world by consumption of the United States,
确保世上最脏的燃料由美国消费，
and promoting a huge disincentive to a sustainable clean energy future for America.
对美国拥有永续洁净能源的未来造成极大阻碍。
Here you see the route down the Mackenzie Valley.
图中有条直抵马更些谷的路线。
This would put a pipeline to take natural gas from the Beaufort Sea through the heart of the third largest watershed basin in the world,
将设置天然气运输管线从波弗特海穿越世上第三大水域中心，
and the only one which is 95 percent intact.
及世上唯一保有 95%完整生态的地区。
And building a pipeline with an industrial highway would change forever this incredible wilderness,
伴随着管线所建设的产业道路将永远改变这片令人惊艳，
which is a true rarity on the planet today.
世上稀有的原野。
So the Great Bear Rainforest is just over the hill there, within a few miles we go from these dry boreal forests of 100-year-old trees,
因此大熊雨林就在山丘那头，离这片拥有百年树龄的干燥北方森林只有数哩，
maybe 10 inches across,
树干周长大约10英吋，
and soon we're in the coastal temperate rainforest,
不久后，这片滨海温带雨林，
rain-drenched, 1,000-year-old trees,
拥有丰富雨水、千年树龄，
20 feet across, a completely different ecosystem.
树干周长20英呎的森林将成为完全不同的生态系统。
And the Great Bear Rainforest is generally considered to be the largest coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem in the world.
大熊雨林一向被认为是世上最大的滨海温带雨林生态系统。
Some of the greatest densities of,
拥有世上密度最高，
some of the most iconic and threatened species on the planet.
最具标志性的濒危物种。
