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PASSAGE THIRTY-NIANE

Wilderness protection

1.“In wilderness is the preservation of the world.” This is a famous saying from a writer regarded as one of the fathers of environmentalism.

2.The frequency with which it is borrowed mirrors a heated debate on environmental protection: whether to place wilderness at the heart of what is to be preserved.

3.As John Sauven of Greenpeace UK points out, there is a strong appeal in images of

the wild, the untouched; more than anything else, they speak of the nature that many people value most dearly.

4.The urge to leave the subject of such images untouched is strong, and the danger exploitation brings to such landscapes is real.

5.Some of these wildernesses also perform functions that humans need—the rainforests, for example, store carbon in vast quantities.

6.To Mr. Sauven, these “ecosystem services” far outweigh the gains

from exploitation.

7.Lee Lane, a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute, takes the opposing view. He acknowledges that wildernesses do provide useful services, such as water conservation.

8.But that is not, he argues, a reason to avoid all human presence, or indeed commercial and industrial exploitation.

9.There are ever more people on the Earth, and they reasonably and rightfully want to have better lives, rather than merely struggle for survival.

10.While the ways of using resources have improved, there is still a growing need for raw materials, and some wildernesses contain them in abundance.

11.If they can be tapped without reducing the services those wildernesses provide, the argument goes, there is no further reason not to do so.

12.Being untouched is not, in itself, a characteristic worth valuing above all others. I look forwards to seeing these views taken further, and to their being challenged by the other participants.

13.One challenge that suggests itself to me is that both cases need to take on the question of spiritual value a little more directly.

14.And there is a practical question as to whether wildernesses can be exploited without harm.

15.This is a topic that calls for not only free expression of feelings, but also the guidance of reason.

16.What position wilderness should enjoy in the preservation of the world obviously deserves much more serious thinking.

第三十九篇

荒野保护

1.“世界在荒野中得以保存。”这是一位被认为是环境保护主义之父的作家的名言。

2.借用这句话的频率反映了一场关于环境保护的激烈辩论:是否将荒野置于保护的核心位置。

3.正如英国绿色和平组织的约翰•苏文所指出的那样，原生态的自然景象具有强烈的吸引力;最重要的是，它们讲述了许多人最珍视的自然。

4. 让这些景色的主题保持原封不动的冲动是强烈的并且开发这些景观带来的危害是真实的。

5.其中一些荒野也发挥着人类需要的功能，例如，热带雨林储存着大量的碳。

6.在苏文看来，这些“生态系统服务”远远超过了开发所带来的收益。

7.哈德逊研究所访问学者李•莱恩持相反观点。他承认荒野确实提供了有用的服务，比如水资源保护。

8.但他认为，这并不是避免人类存在的理由，也不是避免商业和工业探索的理由。

9.地球上有越来越多的人，他们有理由也有理由想要过上更好的生活，而不仅仅是为生存而挣扎。

10.虽然利用资源的方式有所改善，但对原材料的需求仍在增长，而一些荒野中蕴藏着丰富的原材料。

11.如果可以在不减少这些荒野提供的服务的情况下开发它们，那么就没有理由不这样做了。

12.不受影响本身并不是一个值得重视的特征。我期待着看到这些观点得到进一步的发展，并期待其他参与者对它们提出挑战。

13.我想到的一个挑战是，这两种情况都需要更直接地探讨精神价值的问题。

14.还有一个实际的问题是，是否可以在不造成伤害的情况下开发荒野。

15.这个话题不仅需要情感的自由表达，也需要理性的引导。

        16.显然荒野在保护世界中应该享有什么地位值得更认真的思考。