"Small farms are losing out to big business factory farming - the killer link in a hidden chain that connects the food on our plates to climate change and rainforest destruction," he said.

“小农场正失利于大型企业的工厂化农业-而后者在连接我们盘中餐与气候变化和雨林破坏这一无形链条中扮演的是杀手角色，”他说。

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Western taxpayers need the Amazon rainforest to control their climate.

西方的纳税人需要亚马逊雨林控制他们的气候。

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And here's the climate connection. Rainforest trees and plants store massive amounts of carbon - keeping it from getting into the air as carbon dioxide.

森林的环境与气候的变化紧密相连，热带雨林中的树木和植物都储存了大量的碳——它们作为二氧化碳被释放到空气中。

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Western taxpayers need the Amazon rainforest to control their climate.

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The peak of her green interest was in the late 80s - a time of bubbling media coverage of acid rain, climate, waste and rainforest destruction.

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This focus on fracking is part of a larger effort by investors to urge a broad array of companies to increase their attention to the risks posed by climate change, dirty energy sources, water scarcity, rainforest destruction and other global sustainability challenges.

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