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人類在21世紀倖存的機會有多大？ 我們面臨著諸多危險的考驗，例如：
氣候變化，核戰爭，流行病或行星被一顆巨大的小行星撞擊。 今天我們
會討論一下我們的未來，我們有沒有必要恐慌？
先考大家一個有關生物的問題：
The species was hunted so much that within a century, every
single bird had died out. But do you know which island the dodo
was from? Was it:
由於過度的捕獵，在一個世紀之內，所有的鳥都死了。但是你知道Dodo（這種古代巨鳥）來自哪個島嗎？
a) The Galapagos 加拉帕戈斯群島（厄瓜多爾）
b) Mauritius 毛里求斯
c) Fiji 斐濟
[正確答案在音頻結尾揭曉]
Audio: Simon Beard of the Centre for the study of Existential
Risk at Cambridge University
劍橋大學生存風險研究中心的Simon Beard發表見解
VOCABULARY:
1.existential risks生存風險
dangers that threaten the continuation of human life on Earth
2.the historical record 歷史記錄
the collection of all written and recorded past events concerning the human race
3. wipes out完全毀滅，一個不剩
completely destroys leaving nothing remaining
e.g. The historical record suggests that about once every
thousand years an event occurs that wipes out about 1/3 of the human population.
歷史記錄表明，大約每隔1000年就會發生一次重大事件，導致約1/3的人口喪生。
4.plague 傳染病，流行病
infectious, epidemic disease
5.Black Death - 黑死病
e.g. In the Middle ages,this was the Black Death - huge plague
that covered Eurasia, while there was also dramatic global
colling at that time which many people think was related to
volcanic eruptions and about 1/3 of the global population died.
在中世紀，“黑死病”一場巨大的瘟疫席捲歐亞大陸，由於同期還發生了
戲劇性的全球性核洩漏事故，當時許多人認為這與火山噴發有關，造成約
1/3全球人口死亡。
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