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OK, Alice, and thinking about certain radical proposals for adaptation– did you know there’s a Dutch company that wants to build floating cities for us to live in?
好了，我们来看看关于适应环境的一些激进的做法。你知道吗，荷兰一家公司想要建造漂移的城市供人类居住。
No, I didn’t.
我不知道这件事。
Yeah. Plans include 15-storey high-rise buildings and floating food production.
他们计划建造15层的高层建筑，以及漂移的食物生产方法。
It sounds like it would be incredibly expensive. Has anyone actually built one?
听起来造价不菲啊。真的有人建了这么一栋建筑吗？
No, not so far. Let’s hear from Mark Maslin, Professor of Climatology at University College London, talking about why this might be.
至今还没有。我们听听伦敦大学气象学教授Mark Maslin对这个可能性的看法。
Remember, we’re going to have 9.5 billion people by the middle of this century. Now, if you think about it, think about the logistics of building a city, floating, for say, ten million people.And then multiply that up to 60 per cent of 9.5 billion people.OK? So don’t think it’s really cost-efficient.
要知道，本世纪中期，世界人口将达到95亿。如果你想这么做，比如建造一座漂移的城市，容纳一千万人。那么乘以95亿人的60%。不要觉得这很合算。
So in practical terms, the logistics of building a large floating city probably couldn’t work.It wouldn’t be cost-efficient – or good value for the money you paid.
所以实际的说，建造一座大型的漂移城市并不管用。一点都不合算，不值你投那么多钱。
And logistics means the organization of a complex activity.
logistics是指一套复杂活动的组织形式。
On the other hand, the logistics of teaching farmers in Bangladesh to breed ducks instead of chickens,for example, would be relatively simple and cost-efficient – and since ducks float and chickens don’t, it’s a sensible adaptation to climate change!
另一方面，教授孟加拉国的农民喂养鸭子，而不是养鸡，会更加简单，更加合算。因为鸭子会游泳，而鸡不会。这就是适应气候变化！
That’s a great example, Neil!Now, I think it’s time for the answer to today’s quiz question.I asked: How much has the average temperature of the Earth’s surface increased in the last hundred years? Is it… a) 0.85°C, b) 1.85°C or c) 8.5°C?
这个例子不错！我觉得是时候公布今天问题的答案了。我问：近一百年间地球表面平均温度升高了多少？a) 0.85°C, b) 1.85°C 还是 c) 8.5°C？
And I said c) 8.5°C and I know I’m wrong.
我选的是c) 8.5°C，我觉得我错了。
Yes, I’m afraid you are Neil. The right answer is actually 0.85°C. And did you know that 13 of the 14 warmest years were recorded in the 21st Century?
恐怕你真的错了。正确答案是 0.85°C。你知道吗，史上最热的14年，其中13年都是在21世纪。
I did not know that, Alice.
我不知道这个。
But I do know which words we learned today.
但我知道今天学到了哪些单词。
They are:
分别是：
unseasonably
不合时宜的
mitigate
减轻
pledged
保证
desalination
脱盐作用
homegrown
本土的
cost-efficient
合算的
logistics
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