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And the Athabasca River drains downstream to a range of Aboriginal communities.
阿薩帕斯卡爾河下游即原住民聚集地。
In Fort Chippewa, the 800 people there,
奇普懷恩堡有800位居民，
are finding toxins in the food chain,
食物鏈中含有毒性物質，
this has been scientifically proven.
已經科學證實。
The tar sands toxins are in the food chain,
食物鏈中含有瀝青砂這種毒性物質，
and this is causing cancer rates up to 10 times what they are in the rest of Canada.
導致當地癌癥發病率比加拿大其他地區高十倍。
In spite of that, people have to live,
盡管如此，人們需要生存，
have to eat this food in order to survive.
需仰賴食物維生。
The incredibly high price f flying food into these remote Northern Aboriginal communities and the high rate of unemployment makes this an absolute necessity for survival.
空運到這片遙遠北方原住民小區的天價食物和當地的高失業率使當地物產成了賴以為生的必需品。
And not that many years ago, I was lent a boat by a First Nations man.
幾年前，我向原住民借了一條船。
And he said, When you go out on the river,
他說，當你沿河航行時，
do not under any circumstances eat the fish.
千萬別吃魚。
It's carcinogenic.
那是致癌物。
And yet, on the front porch of that man's cabin,
然而，在那名男子家門口，
I saw four fish. He had to feed his family to survive.
我看見四條魚，他必須藉此養家糊口。
And as a parent, I just can't imagine what that does to your soul.
身為父母的我，無法想象這對心靈的影響。
And that's what we're doing.
這正是我們目前所做的事。
The boreal forest is also perhaps our best defense against global warming and climate change.
北方森林或許亦是對抗全球暖化及氣候變遷的最佳防線。
The boreal forest sequesters more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem.
北方森林吸收的排碳量勝于任何現存的生態系統。
And this is absolutely key.
無疑是十分重要的生態環境。
So what we're doing is,
但我們所做的是，
we're taking the most concentrated greenhouse gas sink,
將溫室氣體吸收率最大的環境，
twice as much greenhouse gases are sequestered in the boreal per acre than the tropical rainforests.
每英畝北方森林吸收的溫室氣體比熱帶雨林多兩倍。
And what we're doing is we're destroying this carbon sink, turning it into a carbon bomb.
我們所做的是，摧毀這個碳匯，將它轉變成碳彈。
