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This catastrophe was provoked by the decision to produce palm oil,the most consumed oil in the world, on Borneo.
在婆羅洲生產全世界銷量最高的棕櫚油引發了這場大災難。
Palm oil not only caters to our growing demand for food,but also cosmetics, detergents and, increasingly, alternative fuels.
棕櫚油不僅滿足我們增長中的食品需求,還可用于生產化妝品清潔劑和替代燃料。
The forest diversity was replaced by a single species-the oil palm.
森林的多樣性被單一品種的棕櫚取代。
Monoculture is easy, productive and rapid.
棕櫚樹的單一栽培容易產量高而且生長快。
For local people, it provides employment.
這為本地人提供工作崗位。
It is an agricultural industry.
這是一種農業產業。
Another example of massive deforestation is the eucalyptus.
另一大量森林砍伐的例子是桉樹。
Eucalyptus is used to make paper pulp.
它用于制作木漿。
Plantations are growing, as demand for paper has increased fivefold in 50 years.
種植場越來越多,因過去五十年紙張的需求增長了五倍。
Monocultures of trees are gaining ground all over the world.
單一樹種在全球廣泛種植。
But a monoculture is not a forest.
但單一樹種不是森林。
By definition, there is little diversity.
從定義看差別不大。
One forest does not replace another forest.
一個森林不能取代另一個。
At the foot of these eucalyptus trees,nothing grows,because their leaves form a bed that is toxic for most other plants.
在這些桉樹下寸草不生 因其掉下來的樹葉覆蓋地面令其它植物不能生長。
They grow quickly, but exhaust water reserves.
它們生長快速,但耗水也多。
Soybeans, palm oil, eucalyptus trees.
黃豆,棕櫚油,桉樹。
Deforestation destroys the essential to produce the superfluous.
森林砍伐是舍本逐末。
But elsewhere, deforestation is a last resort to survive.
但在其它地方森林砍伐是生存的最后手段。
Over two billion people,almost a third of the world's population,still depend on charcoal.
超過二十億人,即世界三分一人口仍依賴炭。
In Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries,charcoal is one of the population's main consumables.
海地,世界上最窮的國家之一,碳是最主要的消耗品之一。
Once the pearl of the Caribbean,Haiti can no longer feed its population without foreign aid.
曾經的加勒比海明珠如今卻要依賴外國援助才能養活人民。
