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You know who you can't trust to report on government stewardship of the environment?
你知道政府管理部門對(duì)于環(huán)境情況發(fā)布的報(bào)告中最不能相信誰嗎？
That government.
就是相關(guān)政府機(jī)構(gòu)本身。
For years Spain fudged its own fish catch numbers to protect the fishery business.
西班牙為保護(hù)本國漁業(yè)捏造自己的魚類捕獲數(shù)量已經(jīng)有多年歷史了。
In 2007, New Zealand cut a negative chapter from its State of the Environment report.
2007年新西蘭對(duì)其政府環(huán)境報(bào)告中的相關(guān)負(fù)面內(nèi)容章節(jié)進(jìn)行了刪減。
When challenged, officials decided simply to stop issuing the report.
當(dāng)面臨威脅，官員們就簡(jiǎn)單決定不發(fā)布類似的報(bào)告。
That same year in the U.S. the Bush administration’s EPA concluded that climate change from greenhouse gas emissions was a serious threat.
同年在美國，布什政府環(huán)保署得出結(jié)論稱溫室氣體排放導(dǎo)致氣候變化已成為威脅人類生存的嚴(yán)重因素。
So the White House refused to make the report public.
白宮因此拒絕公布該報(bào)告內(nèi)容。
Fortunately, the citizenry now has tools to fight such official duplicity.
幸運(yùn)的是，公民們已經(jīng)有應(yīng)對(duì)這種官方兩面派行為的辦法了。
Smartphones, cheap satellite imaging and crowdfunded enterprises have made oversight possible that was undreamt of by past transparency advocates, environmentalists and other interested parties.
智能手機(jī)，廉價(jià)的衛(wèi)星圖片以及民營機(jī)構(gòu)已經(jīng)有可能成為透明人士，環(huán)保主義者以及其他對(duì)此問題感興趣的團(tuán)體監(jiān)督政府的利器。
That's the argument made by Yale University researchers in the journal Nature.
這是耶魯大學(xué)研究人員們?cè)凇蹲匀弧冯s志上發(fā)表的相關(guān)文章。
It's the same team who previously used satellite derived estimates to point out that New Delhi has smog as bad or worse than Beijing.
就是這一研究小組之前利用衛(wèi)星估策數(shù)據(jù)指出新德里的霧霾嚴(yán)重程度甚至超過了北京。
A wide range of smartphone apps could allow citizens to do everything from monitoring air and water quality to tracking ocean plankton populations from space.
智能手機(jī)應(yīng)用程序的廣泛使用使得公民們可以進(jìn)行監(jiān)控空氣水源質(zhì)量及追蹤海洋浮游生物數(shù)量。
Such decentralized data collection could even force governments to stay on the sustainability straight and narrow.
這一權(quán)力下放的數(shù)據(jù)收集甚至能迫使政府安分守己地堅(jiān)持可持續(xù)發(fā)展。
