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Man and nature
人类与自然
For a long time, our environment has been damaged because humans have been careless.
很长一段时间，我们的环境由于人类的粗心而遭到破坏。
People have harmed nature through agriculture, fishing, hunting and tourism.
人们通过农业、渔业、狩猎和旅游破坏地球资源。
We further damage the Earth by building new channels in the sea and factories on the land, and by creating pollution with chemical waste.
通过在海底建隧道、在陆地上建工厂以及化学废物造成的污染，我们更进一步地破坏了地球。
We will some day destroy the planet we live on if we continue in this way.
如果我们继续这样的话，终有一天，我们会毁掉这个我们赖以生存的星球。
However, if we focus only on conservation, then people may suffer. Not everything that is best for nature is good for people.
但是如果我们只注意环境保护，人们将忍受苦难。对自然好的事不一定对人类也好。
Would anyone say that development should be stopped in favour of nature?
难道我们为了保护自然就应该停止经济发展？
From the point of view of some people, we are only doing what humans have always done, using nature to meet our own needs.
根据有些人的想法，我们只是在做人类一直在做的事情—利用自然满足我们自己的需求。
Other people argue that such thinking may cause a catastrophe, unless we start to look around and understand how a clean environment benefits us all.
其他人认为这种想法会招致灾难，除非我们开始巡视周围并理解一个干净的环境对我们所有人都有好处。
