“地球之肺”在燃烧！巴西派军队赴亚马孙雨林灭火_BEC初级作文

“地球之肺”在燃烧！巴西派军队赴亚马孙雨林灭火

Conservationist Paul Rosolie told "CBS This Morning" that military action isn't enough and said the Amazon is at risk of "collapsing."

环保主义者保罗·罗索里在接受《CBS今晨》节目采访时表示，军队参与灭火还不够，亚马孙雨林正面临“崩溃”的风险。

conservationist [kɒnsə'veɪʃ(ə)nɪst]：n.（自然环境、野生动植物等）保护主义者

"As we chop more of the rainforest down – and this has been going on for decades, this is not an isolated issue — as we chop more of the rainforest, what we're risking is reaching a tipping point, where that moisture system might be too dry to produce the rain. And then you have a serious problem on your hands, because you're talking about the entire Amazon sort of collapsing."

他说：“随着我们砍伐更多的雨林，我们面临的风险正达到一个临界点，到那时，空气可能过于干燥，没有降雨。砍伐雨林的问题已经持续了几十年，这不是一个孤立的问题。之后人类就面临着一个严重的问题，那就是整个亚马孙雨林的崩溃。”

tipping point：临界点，引爆点

The dispute spilled into the economic arena when French President Emmanuel Macron threatened to block a European Union trade deal with Brazil and several other South American countries. He wants G-7 leaders meeting at a summit in France this weekend to discuss the Amazon crisis.