[by:可可英语～www.utensil-race.com]
[00:00.29]Nonetheless, their output dominates the planet. 
尽管如此他们的粮食产出还是支配着地球。
[00:04.45]In the United States, only three million farmers are left. 
美国只剩下三百万农民。
[00:09.17]They produce enough grain to feed two billion people. 
他们出产的谷物可以养活二十亿人口。
[00:18.51]But most of that grain is not used to feed people. 
但大部分谷物并非用作食粮。
[00:22.33]Here, and in all other industrialized nations,it's transformed into livestock feed or biofuels. 
就像其他工业国,谷物用来喂牲口或作生化燃料。
[00:37.56]The pocket of sunshine's energy...chased away the specter of drought that stalked farmland.
这束阳光的能量赶走了令土地干旱的幽灵。
[00:44.31]No spring escapes the demands of agriculture,which accounts for 70% of humanity's water consumption. 
所有泉水都用于农业,它占人类水消耗量的70%。
[00:55.52]In nature, everything is linked. 
大自然的一切都互相连系。
[00:59.05]The expansion of cultivated land and single-crop farming... 
耕地的拓张和单一品种的种植。
[01:02.24]encouraged the development of parasites. 
增加了害虫的肆虐。
[01:04.53]Pesticides, another gift of the petrochemical revolution,exterminated them. 
石油化工革命带来的杀虫剂把它们杀光。
[01:12.17]Bad harvests and famine became a distant memory. 
农作欠收和饥荒成为邀远回忆。
[01:16.57]The biggest headache now...was what to do with the surpluses engendered by modern agriculture. 
眼前最头痛是如何处理现代农业带来的残留。
[01:22.21]But toxic pesticides seeped into the air,soil, plants, animals, rivers and oceans. 
有毒的杀虫剂渗进空气,泥土、动植物、河流和海洋。
[01:40.45]They penetrated the heart of cells...similar to the mother cell that is shared by all forms of life. 
它们入侵一切生命赖以生存的细胞核心。
[01:49.07]Are they harmful to the humans that they released from hunger? 
它们对免于饥饿的人类有害吗？
[01:52.53]These farmers, in their yellow protective suits,probably have a good idea. 
这些穿着黄色保护衣物的农夫可能有更好的主意。
[02:08.02]The new agriculture abolished the dependence on soils and seasons. 
新兴农业免除了对土壤和季节的依赖。
[02:22.05]Fertilizers produced unprecedented results... 
肥料令小片土地。
[02:26.37]on plots of land thus far ignored. 
出产前所未见的丰富收成。
[02:30.15]Crops adapted to soils and climates gave way to the most productive varieties and the easiest to transport. 
适应了土地和气候的谷物被产量高和易于运输的品种所取代。
[02:38.03]And so, in the last century,three-quarters of the varieties developed by farmers over thousands of years... 
于是在上一世纪农民在过去数千年培育的。
[02:45.00]Have been wiped out. 
四分之三的品种绝种。
[02:48.13]As far as the eye can see, fertilizer below, plastic on top. 
极目所见,下施肥料,上覆塑料。