TED英文演说-修女能教科学家生态学的多好啊中英文演讲稿.docx

第 第 PAGE 1 页 What a nun can teach a scientist about ecology 00:11 OK, I would like to introduce all of you beautiful, curious-minded people to my favorite animal in the world. This is the Peter Pan of the amphibian world. Its an axolotl. Its a type of salamander, but it never fully grows up and climbs out of the water like other salamanders do. And this little guy has X-Man-style powers, right? So if it loses any limb, it can just completely regenerate. Its amazing. And, I mean, look at it -- its got a face with a permanent smile. 00:42 Its framed by feathery gills. Its just ... how could you not love that? 00:45 This particular type of axolotl, a very close relative, is known as an achoque. It is equally as cute, and it lives in just one place in a lake in the north of Mexico. Its called Lake Pátzcuaro, and as you can see, it is stunningly beautiful. But unfortunately, its been so overfished and so badly polluted that the achoque is dying out altogether. And this is something thats a scenario thats playing out all over the world. Were living through an extinction crisis, and species are particularly vulnerable when theyre evolutionarily tailored to just one little niche or maybe one lake. 01:23 But this is TED, right? So this is where I give you the big idea, the big solution. So how do you save one special weird species from going extinct? Well, the answer, at least my answer, isnt a grand technological intervention. Its actually really simple. Its that you find people who know all about this animal and you ask them and you listen to them and you work with them, if theyre up for that. 01:49 So I want to tell you about how Ive seen that in science, and in conservation in particular, if scientists dont team up with local people who have really valuable knowledge but a practical wisdom thats not going to be published in any academic journal, they can really miss the point. Scientists and science as an enterprise can fall at the first hurdle if it rushes in kn