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And yet there's a proposal, of course, to build a pipeline to take huge tankers, 10 times the size of the Exxon Valdez,
然而，其中一項提案是－當然－建造輸油管供應比Exxon Valdez大10倍的巨型油輪裝載原油，
through some of the most difficult to navigate waters in the world,
通過世上某些最難航行的水域，
where only just a few years ago,
僅僅幾年前，
a B.C. ferry ran aground.
卑詩公司的渡輪才在此擱淺。
When one of these tar sands tankers,
若其中一艘瀝青砂油輪，
carrying the dirtiest oil, 10 times as much as the Exxon Valdez,
裝載容量為 Exxon Valdez油輪10倍的臟油，
eventually hits a rock and goes down,
最后撞上巖石沉沒，
we're going to have one of the worst ecological disasters this planet has ever seen.
將導致史上最嚴重的生態災難。
And here we have the plan out to 2030.
這是預定于2030年完成的計劃。
What they're proposing is an almost four-times increase in production,
提案內容是使臟油產量提高將近四倍，
and that would industrialize an area the size of Florida.
這將使面積相當于佛羅里達州的區域工業化。
In doing so, we'll be removing a large part of our greatest carbon sink and replacing it with the most high greenhouse gas emission oil in the future.
這種做法將使我們失去大部分碳匯使它成為溫室氣體排放量最大的油類產地。
The world does not need any more tar mines.
世上不需要更多油砂礦。
The world does not need any more pipelines to wed our addiction to fossil fuels.
世上不需要更多輸油管滿足我們對化石燃料的依賴。
And the world certainly does not need the largest toxic impoundments to grow and multiply and further threaten the downstream communities.
世上當然不需要與日俱增的大型毒性蓄水池進一步威脅下游小區。
And let's face it, we all live downstream in an era of global warming and climate change.
讓我們面對這個事實：我們都活在污染下游在全球暖化及氣候變遷時代。
What we need, is we all need to act to ensure that Canada respects the massive amounts of freshwater that we hold in this country.
我們需要的是－大家都必須采取行動確保加拿大珍惜國內龐大的淡水資源。
We need to ensure that these wetlands and forests that are our best and greatest and most critical defense against global warming are protected,
我們必須保護這些濕地和森林，它是對抗全球暖化最佳、最有利最重要的防線，
and we are not releasing that carbon bomb into the atmosphere.
我們不能將這枚碳彈釋放到大氣中。
