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《科学》 2026年10月15日 · 中文解读

为被忽视的世界建造者而作的挽歌

An elegy for the unsung world-builders · Mary Ellen Hannibal
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历史学家凯尔·哈珀在新书《最后的动物》中提出,人类的技术飞跃与生物多样性锐减共同构成"人类进步的悖论"。他认为,植物和动物一直在为地球生态系统奠基,而人类长期忽视这一贡献,如今成功的代价正在透支未来。书中还指出,人类及其家养动物已占地球陆地哺乳动物总质量的约94%,留给野生物种的仅约6%。
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Plants and animals have always been critical to humanity’s success, and we ignore their contributions at our peril Mary Ellen Hannibal THE LAST ANIMAL | Humanity has made incredible technological leaps forward in our time on Earth; we are also quickly wiping out the planet’s biodiversity. Historian Kyle Harper connects these two realities, which together represent “the paradox of human progress,” in his new book, The Last Animal. Harper’s thesis is that because we have mostly ignored the world-building role played by plants and animals, we have long blinded ourselves to a truth now staring us in the face: The cost of our current success is bankrupting our future. …
摘自《科学》(Science)2026年10月15日,Mary Ellen Hannibal。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。
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