📖2018-07-11 人类简史11

📖Day11 人类简史笔记11

⭕️诺亚方舟

p73：第一波的灭绝浪潮是由于采集者的扩张，接着第二波的灭绝浪潮则是因为农民的扩张...第三波浪潮：由工业活动所造成的物种灭绝。有些环保人士称我们的祖先总是和自然和谐相处，但可别信。...人类可以说坐上了生物学有史以来最致命物种的宝座。

The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the farmers, and gives us an important perspective on the Third Wave Extinction, which industrial activity is causing today. Don't believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature...We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.

p74：Perhaps if more people were aware of the First Wave and Second Wave extinction, they'd be less nonchalant about the Third Wave they are part of .

P74: Many of sea creatures are on the brink of extinction now as a result of industrial pollution and human overuse of oceanic resources. If things continue at the present pace, it is likely that whales, sharks, tuna and dolphins will sank into oblivion as well.  

p74：这场人类洪水的唯一幸存者可能只剩下人类自己，还有其他登上诺亚方舟但只作为人类盘中佳肴的家禽家畜。

Among all the world's large creatures, the only survivors of the human flood will be humans themselves, and the farmyard animals that serve as galley slaves in Noah's Ark.

拓展: Noah’s Ark

《创世纪》中，上帝耶和华见到地上充满不法的邪恶行为，于是计划用洪水消灭恶人。耶和华神指示诺亚建造一艘方舟。在洪水来临之时，大地全部被洪水淹没，只有诺亚方舟上的各种生物得以幸免。在洪水过后，上帝以彩虹为立约的记号，不再诅咒大地，并使各种生物存留永不停息。

✏️表达积累

一起 en masse

闪电战 blitzkrieg

抹去记忆/毁灭所有obliterate the memory/everything

对...漠不关心 be nonchalant about

Even if climate change abetted us, the human contribution was decisive.