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【演講者及介紹】Noah Wilson-Rich

養(yǎng)蜂人Noah Wilson-Rich創(chuàng)立了全國(guó)首屈一指的商業(yè)和住宅養(yǎng)蜂服務(wù)。利用一個(gè)定制的數(shù)字平臺(tái)來(lái)大規(guī)模收集蜜蜂健康數(shù)據(jù)，BestBees公司對(duì)拯救蜜蜂這一更大的使命產(chǎn)生了巨大的影響，并通過(guò)向授粉者打開(kāi)屋頂，幫助客戶了解他們對(duì)環(huán)境的可量化影響。

【演講主題】你如何幫助拯救蜜蜂，一次只救一個(gè)蜂箱

【中英文字幕】

翻譯者 mingli wen 校對(duì)者 yiming ma

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Pollinator decline is a grand challenge inthe modern world. Of the 200,000 species of pollinators, honeybees are the mostwell-understood, partly because of our long history with them dating back 8,000years ago to our cave drawings in what is now modern-day Spain. And yet we knowthat this indicator species is dying off.

授粉者減少是現(xiàn)代世界所面臨的一個(gè)巨大挑戰(zhàn)。在20萬(wàn)種傳粉物種中，我們對(duì)蜜蜂最為了解，部分原因是我們?nèi)祟惻c蜜蜂的悠長(zhǎng)歷史可以追溯到8000年前，在如今的西班牙發(fā)現(xiàn)的洞穴壁畫(huà)中。然而，我們知道蜜蜂這一關(guān)鍵物種正面臨滅絕。

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Last year alone, we lost 40 percent of allbeehives in the United States. That number is even higher in areas with harshwinters, like here in Massachusetts, where we lost 47 percent of beehives inone year alone. Can you imagine if we lost half of our people last year? And ifthose were the food-producing people? It's untenable. And I predict that in 10years, we will lose our bees. If not for the work of beekeepers replacing thesedead beehives, we would be without foods that we rely upon: fruits, vegetables,crunchy almonds and nuts, tart apples, sour lemons. Even the food that ourcattle rely upon to eat, hay and alfalfa -- gone, causing global hunger,economic collapse, a total moral crisis across earth.

僅去年一年，我們?cè)诿绹?guó)境內(nèi)就失去了40%的蜂巢。這個(gè)數(shù)據(jù)在嚴(yán)冬地區(qū)甚至更高，比如在馬薩諸塞州這里，我們?cè)谝荒陜?nèi)就損失了 47%的蜂巢。你能想象如果去年人類數(shù)量減少了一半會(huì)怎樣嗎？如果這些人都是負(fù)責(zé)食品生產(chǎn)的呢？這是無(wú)法承受的狀況。我預(yù)測(cè)在10年后，蜜蜂將會(huì)滅絕。如果不是養(yǎng)蜂人替換掉這些無(wú)用的蜂巢的話，我們將失去賴以生存的食物：水果，蔬菜，松脆的杏仁和堅(jiān)果，蘋(píng)果派，酸檸檬。即使是牛所依賴的食物，如干草和苜蓿，也都將消失，導(dǎo)致全球饑荒，經(jīng)濟(jì)崩潰，道德危機(jī)席卷全球。

01:37

Now, I first started keeping bees here inCape Cod right after I finished my doctorate in honeybee immunology.

我開(kāi)始在科德角這里養(yǎng)蜂，是在我剛獲得了蜜蜂免疫學(xué)的博士學(xué)位之后。

01:43

(Laughter)

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Imagine getting such a degree in a goodeconomy -- and it was 2009: the Great Recession. And I was onto something. Iknew that I could find out how to improve bee health. And so the community onCape Cod here in Provincetown was ripe for citizen science, people looking forways to get involved and to help. And so we met with people in coffee shops. Awonderful woman named Natalie got eight beehives at her home in Truro, and sheintroduced us to her friend Valerie, who let us set up 60 beehives at anabandoned tennis court on her property. And so we started testing vaccines forbees. We were starting to look at probiotics. We called it "beeyogurt" -- ways to make bees healthier. And our citizen science projectstarted to take off.

想象一下，在良好的經(jīng)濟(jì)環(huán)境下，拿到這么一個(gè)學(xué)位——那是在2009年：經(jīng)濟(jì)大蕭條時(shí)期。我要準(zhǔn)備做點(diǎn)什么，我知道我可以找到改善蜂群生存狀況的方法。在普羅溫斯敦的科德角社區(qū)，公民科學(xué)的時(shí)機(jī)已經(jīng)成熟，人們都在想辦法參與并提供幫助。因此我們?cè)诳Х鹊昱c一些人會(huì)面。一位叫娜塔莉的了不起的女士，她在特魯羅的家里有8個(gè)蜂箱，她還把我們介紹給一位叫瓦萊利的朋友，瓦萊利允許我們?cè)谒碌囊粋€(gè)廢棄網(wǎng)球場(chǎng)上搭建了60個(gè)蜂箱。于是，我們開(kāi)始測(cè)試蜜蜂疫苗。我們開(kāi)始研究益生菌。我們叫它“蜜蜂酸奶”——讓蜜蜂更健康的方法。我們的公民科學(xué)計(jì)劃開(kāi)始啟動(dòng)。

02:41

Meanwhile, back in my apartment here, I wasa bit nervous about my landlord. I figured I should tell him what we weredoing.

與此同時(shí)，回到我所住的公寓，我有點(diǎn)擔(dān)心房東的態(tài)度。我覺(jué)得我應(yīng)該告訴他我們正在做的事情。

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I was terrified; I really thought I wasgoing to get an eviction notice, which really was the last thing we needed,right? I must have caught him on a good day, though, because when I told himwhat we were doing and how we started our nonprofit urban beekeepinglaboratory, he said, "That's great! Let's get a beehive in the backalley." I was shocked. I was completely surprised. I mean, instead ofgetting an eviction notice, we got another data point. And in the back alley ofthis image, what you see here, this hidden beehive -- that beehive producedmore honey that first year than we have ever experienced in any beehive we hadmanaged. It shifted our research perspective forever. It changed our researchquestion away from "How do we save the dead and dying bees?" to"Where are bees doing best?" And we started to be able to put mapstogether, looking at all of these citizen science beehives from people who hadbeehives at home decks, gardens, business rooftops. We started to engage thepublic, and the more people who got these little data points, the more accurateour maps became.

我忐忑不安；我真以為會(huì)收到驅(qū)逐令，這真是我們最不想要的，對(duì)吧？我一決定要在美好的一天逮住他說(shuō)話，不過(guò)當(dāng)我告訴他我們?cè)谧鍪裁匆约拔覀兪侨绾谓⒎怯鞘叙B(yǎng)蜂實(shí)驗(yàn)室的時(shí)候，他說(shuō)，“太棒了！我們?cè)诤笙镆才粋€(gè)蜂箱吧?！蔽液苷痼@。我完全驚呆了。我是說(shuō)，不但沒(méi)有收到驅(qū)逐令，還增加了一個(gè)數(shù)據(jù)點(diǎn)。在這張照片中的后巷，你在這里看到的，這個(gè)隱藏的蜂箱——那個(gè)蜂箱第一年產(chǎn)的蜜比我們管理的任何蜂箱的蜜都要多。這永遠(yuǎn)改變了我們的研究視角。它把我們的研究問(wèn)題從“如何拯救死去的和垂死的蜜蜂？”轉(zhuǎn)變成“哪里最適合蜜蜂生長(zhǎng)？”我們開(kāi)始能夠把地圖拼起來(lái)，看看所有這些公民科學(xué)家的蜂箱，從在陽(yáng)臺(tái)放蜂箱的，到在花園，商業(yè)屋頂放蜂箱的。我們開(kāi)始讓公眾參與進(jìn)來(lái)，越多的人參與，提供越多的數(shù)據(jù)點(diǎn)我們的地圖就越精確。

03:50

And so when you're sitting here thinking,"How can I get involved?" you might think about a story of my friendFred, who's a commercial real estate developer. He was thinking the same thing.He was at a meeting, thinking about what he could do for tenant relations andsustainability at scale. And while he was having a tea break, he put honey intohis tea and noticed on the honey jar a message about corporate sustainabilityfrom the host company of that meeting. And it sparked an idea.

如果在座的各位正在思考，“我怎樣才能參與其中？”你可以聽(tīng)一聽(tīng)我朋友弗雷德的故事，他是一名商業(yè)地產(chǎn)開(kāi)發(fā)商。他也在想著同樣的事情。有一天他正在開(kāi)會(huì)，考慮要如何改善跟租客的關(guān)系和規(guī)?；目沙掷m(xù)性。當(dāng)他在茶歇的時(shí)候，他把蜂蜜放進(jìn)茶里，注意到了在蜂蜜罐上一則會(huì)議主辦方關(guān)于企業(yè)可持續(xù)性的信息。這激發(fā)了一個(gè)想法。

04:16

He came back to his office. An email, aphone call later, and -- boom! -- we went national together. We put dozens ofbeehives on the rooftops of their skyscrapers across nine cities nationwide.

他回到辦公室。發(fā)了一封電子郵件，又打了一個(gè)電話，就這么簡(jiǎn)單——我們的計(jì)劃在他的幫助下走向了全國(guó)。我們放了幾十個(gè)蜂箱在他們摩天大樓的屋頂上，橫跨全國(guó)九個(gè)城市。

04:30

Nine years later --

九年以后——

04:31

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04:37

Nine years later, we have raised over amillion dollars for bee research. We have a thousand beehives as little datapoints across the country, 18 states and counting, where we have created payingjobs for local beekeepers, 65 of them, to manage beehives in their owncommunities, to connect with people, everyday people, who are now data pointstogether making a difference.

九年以后，我們?yōu)槊鄯溲芯炕I集了一百多萬(wàn)美元的資金。我們?cè)谌珖?guó)有一千個(gè)蜂箱作為小數(shù)據(jù)點(diǎn)，遍布18個(gè)州和郡，我們?yōu)楫?dāng)?shù)氐酿B(yǎng)蜂業(yè)創(chuàng)造了有償工作，一共有65個(gè)人得以在自己的社區(qū)管理蜂箱，積極動(dòng)員普通民眾，這些民眾現(xiàn)在也成為了數(shù)據(jù)點(diǎn)，一起發(fā)揮作用。

05:03

So in order to explain what's actually beensaving bees, where they're thriving, I need to first tell you what's beenkilling them. The top three killers of bees are agricultural chemicals such aspesticides, herbicides, fungicides; diseases of bees, of which there are many;and habitat loss. So what we did is we looked on our maps and we identifiedareas where bees were thriving. This was mostly in cities, we found. Data arenow showing that urban beehives produce more honey than rural beehives and suburbanbeehives. Urban beehives have a longer life span than rural and suburbanbeehives, and bees in the city are more biodiverse; there are more bee speciesin urban areas.

為了說(shuō)明究竟是什么拯救了蜜蜂，它們正在什么地方蓬勃發(fā)展，我首先要告訴你的是：什么殺死了它們。蜜蜂的三大殺手是農(nóng)藥，比如殺蟲(chóng)劑，除草劑和殺菌劑；大量種類的疾??；以及棲息地的喪失。所以我們做的是研究地圖以及識(shí)別蜜蜂繁盛的地區(qū)。我們發(fā)現(xiàn)這些地區(qū)大多位于城市中。目前數(shù)據(jù)顯示，城市蜂箱生產(chǎn)的蜂蜜比鄉(xiāng)村和郊區(qū)的多。城市蜂箱比鄉(xiāng)村和郊區(qū)的蜂箱壽命更長(zhǎng)，城市蜜蜂更具有生物多樣性；城市地區(qū)的蜜蜂種類較多。

05:42

(Laughter)

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05:44

Right? Why is this? That was our question.So we started with these three killers of bees, and we flipped it: Which ofthese is different in the cities?

有點(diǎn)奇怪吧？為什么呢？ 這正是我們思考的問(wèn)題。我們先研究了這三種蜜蜂殺手，并進(jìn)行逆向思考：這些在城市里有哪些不同之處？

05:54

So the first one, pesticides. We partneredup with the Harvard School of Public Health. We shared our data with them. Wecollected samples from our citizen science beehives at people's homes andbusiness rooftops. We looked at pesticide levels. We thought there would beless pesticides in areas where bees are doing better. That's not the case. Sowhat we found here in our study is -- the orange bars are Boston, and wethought those bars would be the lowest, there would be the lowest levels ofpesticides. And, in fact, there are the most pesticides in cities. So thepesticide hypothesis for what's saving bees -- less pesticides in cities -- isnot it. And this is very typical of my life as a scientist. Anytime I've had ahypothesis, not only is it not supported, but the opposite is true.

第一，殺蟲(chóng)劑。我們與哈佛大學(xué)公共衛(wèi)生學(xué)院合作，與他們分享了數(shù)據(jù)。我們從人們家里和商業(yè)建筑屋頂?shù)墓窨茖W(xué)蜂箱 收集了很多樣本，研究了殺蟲(chóng)劑水平。我們認(rèn)為，蜜蜂生長(zhǎng)得更好的地區(qū)殺蟲(chóng)劑可能會(huì)更少。但事實(shí)并非如此。我們的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)——橙色柱狀表示波士頓，我們以為這些柱狀代表的應(yīng)該是殺蟲(chóng)劑含量最低的地方。事實(shí)上，城市中殺蟲(chóng)劑使用量最多。因此關(guān)于拯救蜜蜂的殺蟲(chóng)劑假說(shuō)——城市的殺蟲(chóng)劑更少——不成立。這樣的結(jié)論對(duì)于一個(gè)科學(xué)家來(lái)說(shuō)是很平常的。很多時(shí)候，我的假設(shè)不僅得不到證據(jù)支撐，反倒相反的假設(shè)才是正確的。

06:39

(Laughter)

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06:40

Which is still an interesting finding,right?

06:42

We moved on. The disease hypothesis. Welooked at diseases all over our beehives. And what we found in a similar studyto this one with North Carolina State is: there's no difference between diseasein bees in urban, suburban and rural areas. Diseases are everywhere; bees aresick and dying. In fact, there were more diseases of bees in cities. This wasfrom Raleigh, North Carolina. So again, my hypothesis was not supported. Theopposite was true. We're moving on.

于是我們繼續(xù)前進(jìn)，提出了疾病假說(shuō)。我們研究了所有蜂箱中出現(xiàn)的疾病。我們?cè)趯?duì)北卡羅來(lái)納州的類似研究中發(fā)現(xiàn)：無(wú)論是在城市，郊區(qū)，還是鄉(xiāng)村地區(qū)，蜜蜂疾病都沒(méi)有表現(xiàn)出任何區(qū)別。疾病無(wú)處不在；蜜蜂都在陸續(xù)生病和死亡。事實(shí)上，城市里有更多的蜜蜂疾病。這是北卡羅來(lái)納州羅利市的照片。所以，我又得出了恰好相反的假設(shè)。我們又繼續(xù)研究。

07:08

(Laughter)

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07:10

The habitat hypothesis. This said thatareas where bees are thriving have a better habitat -- more flowers, right? Butwe didn't know how to test this. So I had a really interesting meeting. An ideasparked with my friend and colleague Anne Madden, fellow TED speaker. Wethought about genomics, kind of like AncestryDNA or 23andMe. Have you donethese? You spit in a tube and you find out, "I'm German!"

棲息地假說(shuō)。這張圖說(shuō)的是蜜蜂生命旺盛的地區(qū)，棲息地環(huán)境更好——應(yīng)該有更多的花朵，對(duì)嗎？但是我們不知該 如何對(duì)這一假設(shè)進(jìn)行檢驗(yàn)。所以我們召開(kāi)了一次有趣的會(huì)議。我與朋友兼同事安娜·麥登，她也是TED演講人，提出了這個(gè)想法。我們想到了基因組技術(shù)，比如“AncestryDNA”或者“23andMe”的那種。你們做過(guò)這種檢測(cè)嗎？就是往管子里吐痰，然后發(fā)現(xiàn)，“我是德國(guó)人（的后裔）！”

07:34

(Laughter)

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07:35

Well, we developed this for honey. So wehave a sample of honey and we look at all the plant DNA, and we find out,"I'm sumac!"

我們?yōu)槊鄯湟查_(kāi)發(fā)了類似的技術(shù)。取一份蜂蜜樣本，比對(duì)所有植物的DNA，然后我們發(fā)現(xiàn)，“這是漆樹(shù)（的花蜜）！”

07:43

(Laughter)

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07:44

And that's what we found here inProvincetown. So for the first time ever, I'm able to report to you what typeof honey is from right here in our own community. HoneyDNA, a genomics test.Spring honey in Provincetown is from privet. What's privet? Hedges. What's themessage? Don't trim your hedges to save the bees.

這是我們?cè)谄樟_溫斯敦發(fā)現(xiàn)的。所以我們有史以來(lái)第一次可以證明哪一種蜂蜜來(lái)自我們這一社區(qū)。我們運(yùn)用的是“蜂蜜DNA”，一個(gè)基因組檢測(cè)技術(shù)。普羅溫斯敦的春蜜來(lái)自于女貞【植】。什么是女貞？就是樹(shù)籬。這意味著什么？為了拯救蜜蜂，不要修剪你的籬笆。

08:03

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08:04

I know we're getting crunchy and it'scontroversial, so before you throw your tomatoes, we'll move to the summerhoney, which is water lily honey. If you have honey from Provincetown righthere in the summer, you're eating water lily juice; in the fall, sumac honey.We're learning about our food for the first time ever. And now we're able toreport, if you need to do any city planning: What are good things to plant?What do we know the bees are going to that's good for your garden? For thefirst time ever for any community, we now know this answer.

我知道這有點(diǎn)尷尬，也會(huì)存在爭(zhēng)議，所以在你朝我扔西紅柿之前，我們來(lái)聊一聊夏蜜，即睡蓮蜜。如果你在夏天吃普羅溫斯敦的蜂蜜，你喝的就是睡蓮汁；秋天，是漆樹(shù)蜂蜜。我們有史以來(lái)第一次深入研究蜂蜜。如果你要做城市規(guī)劃，現(xiàn)在我們可以想你匯報(bào): 種什么植物好？我們知道的關(guān)于 蜜蜂對(duì)花園的好處有哪些？ 對(duì)于任何一個(gè)社區(qū)來(lái)說(shuō)，我們現(xiàn)在終于知道答案了。

08:34

What's more interesting for us is deeper inthe data. So, if you're from the Caribbean and you want to explore yourheritage, Bahamian honey is from the laurel family, cinnamon and avocadoflavors. But what's more interesting is 85 different plant species in oneteaspoon of honey. That's the measure we want, the big data. Indian honey: thatis oak. Every sample we've tested from India is oak, and that's 172 differentflavors in one taste of Indian honey. Provincetown honey goes from 116 plantsin the spring to over 200 plants in the summer. These are the numbers that weneed to test the habitat hypothesis.

對(duì)我們來(lái)說(shuō)更有趣的是更深層次的數(shù)據(jù)。如果你來(lái)自加勒比海，想探索自己繼承的一片土地，巴哈馬蜜是來(lái)自月桂科【植】，含肉桂和鱷梨風(fēng)味。但是更有趣的是一茶匙蜂蜜里包含85種不同的植物品種。這就是我們需要的測(cè)量方式，大數(shù)據(jù)。印度蜂蜜來(lái)自橡樹(shù)。我們測(cè)試的每一個(gè)印度樣品都是來(lái)自橡樹(shù)，一口能嘗出來(lái)印度蜂蜜里含有172種不同風(fēng)味。普羅溫斯敦的蜂蜜在春天采自116種植物，夏天則超過(guò)200種植物。這是就我們需要檢驗(yàn)棲息地假說(shuō)的數(shù)據(jù)。

09:13

In another citizen science approach, youfind out about your food and we get some interesting data. We're finding outnow that in rural areas, there are 150 plants on average in a sample of honey.That's a measure for rural. Suburban areas, what might you think? Do they haveless or more plants in suburban areas with lawns that look nice for people butthey're terrible for pollinators? Suburbs have very low plant diversity, so ifyou have a beautiful lawn, good for you, but you can do more. You can have apatch of your lawn that's a wildflower meadow to diversify your habitat, toimprove pollinator health. Anybody can do this. Urban areas have the mosthabitat, best habitat, as you can see here: over 200 different plants. We have,for the first time ever, support for the habitat hypothesis.

在另一種公民科學(xué)方法中，你發(fā)現(xiàn)了食物的秘密，而我們也獲得了一些有趣的數(shù)據(jù)。我們現(xiàn)在發(fā)現(xiàn)在農(nóng)村地區(qū)，一種蜂蜜樣本平均含有150種植物。這是農(nóng)村地區(qū)的數(shù)據(jù)。那么郊區(qū)呢，你認(rèn)為結(jié)果如何？在對(duì)民眾友好但是不利于花粉傳播的郊區(qū)草坪上采集的蜂蜜會(huì)包含多少植物？結(jié)果是郊區(qū)的植物多樣性很低，所以如果你的草坪很漂亮，很不錯(cuò)，但你可以做更多的改善。你可以在草坪上開(kāi)辟一片野花草地使你的棲息地多樣化，從而改善傳粉者的健康。任何人都能做到這一點(diǎn)。城市地區(qū)擁有最多和最好的棲息地，正如你在這里看到的：超過(guò)200種不同的植物。我們的棲息地假說(shuō)有史以來(lái)第一次得到認(rèn)可。

10:03

We also now know how we can work withcities. The City of Boston has eight times better habitat than its nearbysuburbs. And so when we work with governments, we can scale this. You mightthink on my tombstone, it'll say, "Here lies Noah. Plant a flower."Right? I mean -- it's exhausting after all of this. But when we scale together,when we go to governments and city planners -- like in Boston, the honey ismostly linden trees, and we say, "If a dead tree needs to be replaced,consider linden." When we take this information to governments, we can doamazing things. This is a rooftop from Fred's company. We can plant thosethings on top of rooftops worldwide to start restoring habitat and securingfood systems. We've worked with the World Bank and the presidential delegationfrom the country of Haiti. We've worked with wonderful graduate students atYale University and Ethiopia. In these countries, we can add value to theirhoney by identifying what it is, but informing the people of what to plant torestore their habitat and secure their food systems.

我們現(xiàn)在也知道該如何與城市合作。波士頓市的棲息地比周邊的郊區(qū)要優(yōu)越8倍。當(dāng)我們與政府合作的時(shí)候，我們可以擴(kuò)大這一規(guī)模。你可能會(huì)想，在我的墓碑上會(huì)刻著，“諾亞長(zhǎng)眠于此。請(qǐng)種一朵花吧?！睂?duì)吧？ 我是說(shuō)，在經(jīng)歷了 這一切之后，我已筋疲力盡。但當(dāng)我們一起擴(kuò)大規(guī)模時(shí)，當(dāng)我們?nèi)フ艺统鞘幸?guī)劃者的時(shí)候——就像在波士頓，蜂蜜樹(shù)源主要是椴樹(shù)，我們會(huì)說(shuō)，“如果需要替換一棵枯樹(shù)，考慮用椴樹(shù)?！碑?dāng)我們把這些信息遞交給政府，就相當(dāng)于開(kāi)展了一次壯舉。這是弗雷德公司的屋頂。我們可以在全世界的屋頂上種植那些植物，開(kāi)始恢復(fù)棲息地，以及保障食物系統(tǒng)。我們還與世界銀行合作，以及與海地總統(tǒng)代表團(tuán)合作。我們與耶魯大學(xué)以及埃塞爾比亞的優(yōu)秀畢業(yè)生合作。在這些國(guó)家，我們可以通過(guò)確定蜂蜜的種類來(lái)為他們的蜂蜜增值，告訴人們?cè)摲N植什么植物，從而恢復(fù)棲息地以及保障他們的食物系統(tǒng)。

11:01

But what I think is even more important iswhen we think about natural disasters. For the first time, we now know how wecan have a baseline measure of any habitat before it might be destroyed. Thinkabout your hometown. What risks does the environment pose to it? This is howwe're going to save Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. We now have a baselinemeasure of honey, honey DNA from before and after the storm. We started inHumacao. This is right where Hurricane Maria made landfall. And we know whatplants to replace and in what quantity and where by triangulating honey DNAsamples.

我認(rèn)為這對(duì)應(yīng)對(duì)自然災(zāi)害來(lái)說(shuō)更重要。有史以來(lái)，我們第一次知道如何在任何棲息地有可能被摧毀前，做基線測(cè)量。回想一下你的家鄉(xiāng)。環(huán)境面臨著哪些風(fēng)險(xiǎn)？這是瑪利亞颶風(fēng)過(guò)境后，我們拯救波多黎各的方法。現(xiàn)在我們有了蜂蜜的基線測(cè)量，颶風(fēng)前后蜂蜜的DNA。我們從烏馬考市開(kāi)始。這正是瑪利亞颶風(fēng)登陸的地點(diǎn)。我們通過(guò)三角測(cè)量法分析蜂蜜的 DNA樣本，搞清了該復(fù)原哪些植物以及需要的數(shù)量和地點(diǎn)。

11:38

You might even think about right here, thebeautiful land that connected us, that primed us, all the citizen science tobegin with, the erosion, the winter storms that are getting more violent everyyear. What are we going to do about this, our precious land? Well, looking athoney DNA, we can see what plants are good for pollinators that have deeproots, that can secure the land, and together, everybody can participate. Andthe solution fits in a teaspoon. If your hometown might get swept away ordestroyed by a natural disaster, we now have a blueprint suspended in time forhow to restore that on Earth, or perhaps even in a greenhouse on Mars.

你可能會(huì)想，這一片連接和哺育我們的美麗大地，所有公民科學(xué)開(kāi)始的地方，侵蝕，冬季風(fēng)暴正在逐年惡化。我們?cè)摬扇∈裁创胧?，?lái)保護(hù)如此珍貴的土地呢？我們通過(guò)觀測(cè)蜂蜜DNA，就可以找出哪些植物的根長(zhǎng)得很深，可以保持水土，又對(duì)授粉者有益，我們所有人都可以參與進(jìn)來(lái)，一起拯救這一茶匙的蜂蜜。如果你的家鄉(xiāng)可能會(huì)被自然災(zāi)害卷走或者摧毀，我們現(xiàn)在就有了一份如何在地球上，甚至在火星上的溫室里重建家園的藍(lán)圖。

12:20

I know it sounds crazy, but think aboutthis: a new Provincetown, a new hometown, a place that might be familiar that'salso good for pollinators for a stable food system, when we're thinking aboutthe future. Now, together, we know what's saving bees -- by planting diversehabitat. Now, together, we know how bees are going to save us -- by beingbarometers for environmental health, by being blueprints, sources ofinformation, little data factories suspended in time.

我明白，這聽(tīng)起來(lái)太不可思議，但是想想看：在未來(lái)可能會(huì)是這樣一番景象：一個(gè)全新的普羅溫斯敦，一個(gè)全新的家鄉(xiāng)，一個(gè)似曾相識(shí)且對(duì)授粉者有利的地方，擁有穩(wěn)定的食物系統(tǒng)，團(tuán)結(jié)協(xié)作讓我們懂得了如何拯救蜜蜂——通過(guò)擁有植物多樣性的棲息地。團(tuán)結(jié)協(xié)作讓我們懂得了蜜蜂將如何拯救人類——通過(guò)作為環(huán)境健康的標(biāo)記，作為信息源泉的藍(lán)圖，成為小數(shù)據(jù)工廠只是時(shí)間問(wèn)題。

12:54

Thank you.

謝謝

12:55

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