威爾·法瑞爾和羅伯特·雷德福就科羅拉多河爭論不休

好吧,好吧,這只是一個假裝的爭論。但這兩位著名演員爭論的問題卻是非常真實的:恢復科羅拉多河。羅伯特·雷德福和威爾·法瑞爾並沒有說教,而是製作了五個幽默的公益影片來引起人們的關注。

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好吧,好吧,這只是一個假裝的爭論。但這兩位著名演員爭論的問題卻是非常真實的:恢復科羅拉多河。羅伯特·雷德福和威爾·法瑞爾並沒有說教,而是製作了五個幽默的公益影片來引起人們的關注。而且似乎正在奏效。我不是正在寫關於它的文章嗎?

科羅拉多河從落基山脈奔騰而下。但現在有太多的河水被沿途不斷發展的城市、農場和工業用水轉移,以至於它在墨西哥加利福尼亞灣的三角洲附近,即加利福尼亞州-亞利桑那州邊境,在離三角洲70英里的地方就乾涸了。乾旱使水資源流失更加嚴重。結果,三角洲曾經廣闊的溼地和繁榮的魚類、鳥類和陸地動物種群正在迅速消亡。一項旨在幫助振興三角洲的運動,名為Raise The River(拯救河流),正試圖籌集1000萬美元。


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在這些相互關聯的短影片中,雷德福簡明扼要地提出了恢復溼地的理由,這將有利於野生動物以及仍然依賴三角洲的許多社群。但隨後法瑞爾突然出現在螢幕上,駁斥了雷德福,說:“我們真的需要更多的河流嗎?我的意思是,見鬼,我們有足夠多的海洋。讓我們移動。” 然後他描述了一個由他和“其他一些科學家”設計的計劃,即“將一小部分海洋移回河流的溼潤部分”。法瑞爾的策略旨在表明,除了恢復河流之外,實際上沒有其他明智的解決方案。這兩位演員呼籲觀眾向RaiseTheRiver.orgMoveTheOcean.org捐款。後者,當然,是同一個倡議,但口號是“Un-disconnect the Colorado(重新連線科羅拉多河)”。

其中一個影片如下所示。其他影片可以在Raise the River 網站上觀看。

在另一項行動中,美國和墨西哥本週早些時候達成協議,將在邊境沿線的莫雷洛斯大壩開閘和關閘,為期八週,以將一些水放回河床,看看這對溼地有何幫助。根據兩國在2012年達成的被稱為第319號協議的協議,需要進行此類釋放。

圖片由 RaiseTheRiver.org 提供

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大眾科學 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大眾科學 Mind and 大眾科學 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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