國(guó)家地理:保護(hù)著海岸和生命的消失的森林(2)

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Haldar, a meticulously dressed widow of about 50, had at least had some inkling of what was to come. She'd watched as the nearby Sundarbans, a vast mangrove forest that flanks the village, had retreated, its trees looking increasingly weedy. She'd noted how the water appeared to draw strength from the forest's weakness. The only surprise, Haldar insisted, is that the village's earthworks held out for so long. "The trees defended us, but we treated them very badly," she said. "So now we are all suffering the consequences."

哈爾達(dá)是個(gè)寡婦，今年50歲，總是穿戴的很整齊，對(duì)于即將發(fā)生的事，她心里多少有數(shù)。她看過(guò)孫德?tīng)柋舅股夏瞧瑥V袤的守衛(wèi)著村子側(cè)翼的紅樹(shù)林是怎樣逐漸退去的，因?yàn)槟切?shù)變得越來(lái)越瘦弱。她也知道那些水流是怎樣帶走了樹(shù)木的生命力。唯一令哈爾達(dá)感到驚訝的是，村子居然堅(jiān)持了這么久。她說(shuō)：“那些樹(shù)保護(hù)了我們，但我們并沒(méi)有善待他們。所以我們現(xiàn)在就要承擔(dān)后果?！?/p>

In Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian state of West Bengal, there are thousands of villages like East Dhangmari -- places that are losing their natural defenses against climate change just as it is intensifying. The land is paper-flat and crisscrossed by rivers bulging with meltwater from the Himalaya. Cyclones frequently roar in off the Bay of Bengal, sometimes killing thousands. Flooding is pervasive.

在孟加拉國(guó)和鄰近的印度西孟加拉邦，有成千上萬(wàn)個(gè)東當(dāng)馬里一樣的村子--在氣候變化加劇的時(shí)代，它們卻在逐漸失去自己的天然屏障。那里地形平坦，其上十字形交錯(cuò)著喜馬拉雅山上融化的雪水匯成的河流。颶風(fēng)時(shí)常從孟加拉灣席卷過(guò)來(lái)，有時(shí)會(huì)造成上千人的死亡。隨之而來(lái)的就是肆虐的洪水。