威尔·法瑞尔和罗伯特·雷德福就科罗拉多河争论不休

好吧,好吧,这只是一个假装的争论。但这两位著名演员争论的问题却是非常真实的:恢复科罗拉多河。罗伯特·雷德福和威尔·法瑞尔并没有说教,而是制作了五个幽默的公益视频来引起人们的关注。

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好吧,好吧,这只是一个假装的争论。但这两位著名演员争论的问题却是非常真实的:恢复科罗拉多河。罗伯特·雷德福和威尔·法瑞尔并没有说教,而是制作了五个幽默的公益视频来引起人们的关注。而且似乎正在奏效。我不是正在写关于它的文章吗?

科罗拉多河从落基山脉奔腾而下。但现在有太多的河水被沿途不断发展的城市、农场和工业用水转移,以至于它在墨西哥加利福尼亚湾的三角洲附近,即加利福尼亚州-亚利桑那州边境,在离三角洲70英里的地方就干涸了。干旱使水资源流失更加严重。结果,三角洲曾经广阔的湿地和繁荣的鱼类、鸟类和陆地动物种群正在迅速消亡。一项旨在帮助振兴三角洲的运动,名为Raise The River(拯救河流),正试图筹集1000万美元。


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在这些相互关联的短视频中,雷德福简明扼要地提出了恢复湿地的理由,这将有利于野生动物以及仍然依赖三角洲的许多社区。但随后法瑞尔突然出现在屏幕上,驳斥了雷德福,说:“我们真的需要更多的河流吗?我的意思是,见鬼,我们有足够多的海洋。让我们移动。” 然后他描述了一个由他和“其他一些科学家”设计的计划,即“将一小部分海洋移回河流的湿润部分”。法瑞尔的策略旨在表明,除了恢复河流之外,实际上没有其他明智的解决方案。这两位演员呼吁观众向RaiseTheRiver.orgMoveTheOcean.org捐款。后者,当然,是同一个倡议,但口号是“Un-disconnect the Colorado(重新连接科罗拉多河)”。

其中一个视频如下所示。其他视频可以在Raise the River 网站上观看。

在另一项行动中,美国和墨西哥本周早些时候达成协议,将在边境沿线的莫雷洛斯大坝开闸和关闸,为期八周,以将一些水放回河床,看看这对湿地有何帮助。根据两国在2012年达成的被称为第319号协议的协议,需要进行此类释放。

图片由 RaiseTheRiver.org 提供

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 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: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 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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