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Number one: we can fertilize our food.
第一：這能為我們的食物施肥。
Each one of us is pooping and peeing something that could fertilize half or maybe all of our food, depending on our diet.
我們每個人都產生能夠肥沃我們一半甚至全部食物的排泄物，具體取決于我們的食譜。
That dark brown poo in the toilet is dark brown because of what?
我們的便便為什么是深棕色的？
Dead stuff, bacteria. That's carbon.
因為無機物、細菌。都是碳
And carbon, if we're getting that into the soil, is going to bind to the other minerals and nutrients in there.
如果我們把這些碳弄進土壤里，它們將會與土壤中的其它礦物質、養分結合。
Boom! Healthier food. Voilà! Healthier people.
更加健康的食物。哇啦！更加健康的人們。
Chemical fertilizers by definition don't have carbon in them.
化肥從定義上來講是不含碳的。
Imagine if we could move our animal manure and our human manure to our soil,
想像假如我們能夠把這些生物養分全部放進土壤，
we might not need to rely on fossil fuel-based fertilizers, mine minerals from far away.
我們也許就不需要依賴于化石燃料基肥料，或是老遠拉來的礦物質了。
Imagine how much energy we could save.
我們會節約多少能量啊。
Now, some of us are concerned about industrial pollutants contaminating this reuse cycle. That can be addressed.
現在，我們其中的一些人也許正擔心著工業有害物質污染循環圈。這確實需要被強調。
But we need to separate our discomfort about talking about poo and pee
但是我們需要把因為討論到排泄物而感到的不適與其區分開來。
so we can calmly talk about how we want to reuse it and what things we don't want to reuse.
只有這樣我們才能平靜地討論如何循環利用它們，還有哪些東西我們不希望循環使用。
And get this: if we change our approach to sanitation, we can start to slow down climate change.
還有這個：如果我們改變了衛生設施體系，我們將開始減緩氣候變化。
Remember that carbon in the poop?
還記得糞便中的碳嗎？
If we can get that into our soil bank, it's going to start to absorb carbon dioxide that we put into the air.
如果那筆碳進賬土壤銀行，它們會幫助吸收我們自己扔進空氣中地二氧化碳。
And that could help slow down global warming.
這就會幫助我們減緩全球變暖。
