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English to Spanish: Pandemia and environment General field: Science Detailed field: Environment & Ecology
Source text - English Make no mistake, they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. And they are not simply happening to us; they represent the unintended results of things we are doing. They reflect the convergence of two forms of crisis on our planet. The first crisis is ecological, the second is medical. As the two intersect, their joint consequences appear as a pattern of weird and terrible new diseases, emerging from unexpected sources and raising deep concern, deep foreboding, among the scientists who study them. How do such diseases leap from nonhuman animals into people, and why do they seem to be leaping more frequently in recent years? To put the matter in its starkest form: Human-caused ecological pressures and disruptions are bringing animal pathogens ever more into contact with human populations, while human technology and behavior are spreading those pathogens ever more widely and quickly. There are three elements to the situation.
One: Mankind’s activities are causing the disintegration (a word chosen carefully) of natural ecosystems at a cataclysmic rate. We all know the rough outlines of that problem. By way of logging, road building, slash-and-burn agriculture, hunting and eating of wild animals (when Africans do that we call it “bushmeat” and impute a negative onus, though in America it’s merely “game”), clearing forest to create cattle pasture, mineral extraction, urban settlement, suburban sprawl, chemical pollution, nutrient runoff to the oceans, mining the oceans unsustainably for seafood, climate change, international marketing of the exported goods whose production requires any of the above, and other “civilizing” incursions upon natural landscape—by all such means, we are tearing ecosystems apart. This much isn’t new. Humans have been practicing most of those activities, using simple tools, for a very long time. But now, with 7 billion people alive and modern technology in their hands, the cumulative impacts are becoming critical.
Translation - Spanish No se equivoquen, están conectados, estos brotes de enfermedades vienen uno detrás de otro. Y no es que simplementenos nos estén sucediendo a nosotros; representan el resultado no deseados de las cosas que estamos haciendo. Reflejan la convergencia de dos formas de crisis en nuestro planeta. La primera crisis es ecológica, la segunda es médica. A medida que ambas convergen, sus consecuencias sumadas aparecen como un patrón de nuevas enfermedades raras y terribles, que surgen de fuentes inesperadas y generan una honda preocupación, un inquietante presentimiento entre los científicos que las estudian. ¿Cómo saltan estas enfermedades de los animales no humanos a las personas y por qué parecen estar saltando con más frecuencia en los últimos años? Para ponerlo de la forma más cruda: las presiones y desórdenes ecológicos causados por el ser humano están poniendo en contacto patógenos animales con poblaciones humanas, al tiempo que la tecnología y el comportamiento humano están propagando esos patógenos de manera cada vez más extensa y rápida. Hay tres elementos en la situación:
Uno: Las actividades humanas están causando la desintegración (una palabra elegida deliberadamente) de los ecosistemas naturales a un ritmo cataclísmico. Todos conocemos las líneas generales de ese problema. A través de la explotación forestal, la construcción de carreteras, la agricultura de tala y quema, la caza y el consumo de animales salvajes (cuando los africanos lo hacen lo llamamos "consumo de animales silvestres" y le añadimos una connotación negativa, pero en Estados Unidos, es simplemente un "deporte"), la tala de bosques para pastos, la extracción de minerales, los asentamientos urbanos, la expansión de las áreas metropolitanas, la contaminación química, la escorrentía de nutrientes a los océanos, la explotación de los océanos de manera insostenible para obtener pescados y marisco, el cambio climático, la exportación internacional de productos cuya producción requiere cualquiera de las actividades anteriores, y otras incursiones "civilizadoras" sobre el paisaje natural. Por todos estos medios, estamos destrozando los ecosistemas. Todo esto no es nuevo. Los humanos han practicado la mayoría de esas actividades valiéndose de herramientas simples durante mucho tiempo. Pero ahora, con 7 mil millones de personas vivas y con tecnología moderna en sus manos, el impacto acumulado se está convirtiendo en crítico.
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