a place where people lived
Over an empty city, home to quietly states how many people the place once held.
This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people.David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020 — Capítulo 1 de 10 · 3'26" · C1
Chernobyl Empties a City, Explained: life-support
A city of nearly 50,000 stands empty. On the surface this is Chernobyl: the station exploded, and in less than 48 hours everyone was gone. Underneath, those streets stand for a slower disaster. "The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day."
Qué pasa
Someone describes an empty city in Ukraine that was once home to almost 50,000 people. On 26 April 1986 the nearby Chernobyl station exploded. In less than 48 hours the city was evacuated, and no one has lived there since. The account then sets that one explosion beside a slower loss: the planet's wild places and its biodiversity, which human life is now sending into a decline.
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life-support
the system that keeps life going
life-support takes the hospital machine and sets it under the whole living world we depend on.
These reefs are the bay's life-support, not a postcard backdrop.
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- home to
a place where people lived
- uninhabitable
no longer possible to live there
- human error
a mistake people caused
- barely noticeable
so slight you hardly see it
- into a decline
a move into getting worse
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Keep was light and stress once and home.
This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people.contact clause: A hidden that lets the words after everything describe it.
It had everything a community would need for a comfortable life.became impossible to live in
But on the 26th of April, 1986, it suddenly became uninhabitable.in a shorter time than this
And in less than 48 hours, the city was evacuated.people were moved out together
And in less than 48 hours, the city was evacuated.Stress No and keep one has together.
No one has lived here since.caused by what follows
The explosion was a result of bad planning and human error. Mistakes.had an effect on something
It triggered an environmental catastrophe that had an impact across Europe.people judged it to be
Many people regarded it as the most costly in the history of mankind.Let it run into as without chopping the three apart.
Many people regarded it as the most costly in the history of mankind.still going on, not finished not opening something folded, but a tragedy still happening
The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day.from one day across to the next
The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day.adjective phrase: It modifies tragedy and says why people fail to notice.
The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day.the thing I mean is
I'm talking about the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.gain an advantage from something
Working together to benefit from the energy of the sun and the minerals of the earth.in a manner that produces this result
Leading lives that interlock in such a way that they sustain each other.result clause: that gives the result of the way these lives fit.
Leading lives that interlock in such a way that they sustain each other.Soften a so such and way hold the beat.
Leading lives that interlock in such a way that they sustain each other.depend on it with no alternative
We rely entirely on this finely tuned life-support machine.operate without problems
And it relies on its biodiversity to run smoothly.a move into getting worse
After the praise, sending supplies the push, and into a decline only means the loss is still sliding.
Yet the way we humans live on Earth now is sending biodiversity into a decline.because of the causes that follow
This too is happening as a result of bad planning and human errorLeave and light and give the weight to too.
and it too will lead to what we see here.during the years I have lived
The evidence is all around. It's happened in my lifetime.a witness's formal account not a court paper, but this film offered as testimony
This film is my witness statement and my vision for the future,reached the point of doing it not traveling to produce it, but slowly committing the mistake
the story of how we came to make this our greatest mistake, and how, if we act now,noun clause: how opens a noun clause naming the story, not a question.
the story of how we came to make this our greatest mistake, and how, if we act now,fix what has gone wrong
put it right closes the empty city by keeping a repair possible rather than tidying an object.
we can yet put it right.Chernobyl Empties a City, explicado
What's really going on
A city once home to almost 50,000 people became uninhabitable on 26 April 1986, was emptied in less than 48 hours, and "No one has lived here since." The cause is given as bad planning and human error. Chernobyl is then called a single event, not the main point. "The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day." That tragedy is the loss of wild places and biodiversity. The living world is described as lives that interlock and sustain each other, a "finely tuned life-support machine" that "relies on its biodiversity to run smoothly." The way humans live now is "sending biodiversity into a decline," and the same causes "will lead to what we see here," "A place in which we cannot live." The empty city is the picture already in view. The close is personal: it happened "in my lifetime," seen "with my own eyes," yet "we can yet put it right."
Theme
SurvivalThe empty city is the picture of where biodiversity loss leads, and humans are said to rely entirely on that living system.
DutyThe loss is called our greatest mistake, and the speech says that if we act now we can yet put it right.
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- was once home — Keep was light and stress once and home.
- No one has — Stress No and keep one has together.
- it as the — Let it run into as without chopping the three apart.
- such a way — Soften a so such and way hold the beat.
But on the 26th of April, 1986, it suddenly became uninhabitable.The date marks the break: a city that had everything for a comfortable life was, from that day, a place people could not live in.
No one has lived here since.Evacuation was not a pause. After those hours, the city stayed empty; nobody returned to live there.
The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day.Chernobyl is set aside as one event. The loss of wild places is still going on worldwide, so gradual that daily life barely registers it.
We rely entirely on this finely tuned life-support machine.Humans have no backup: the living world, tuned so its parts sustain each other, is the system that keeps us alive, and it needs biodiversity to run smoothly.
I've seen it with my own eyes.The fading of the natural world is not a report from elsewhere. The speaker claims it happened within one lifetime and was seen firsthand.
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Why was this city evacuated?
On 26 April 1986 the nearby nuclear power station of Chernobyl exploded. The city, once home to almost 50,000 people, "suddenly became uninhabitable," and in less than 48 hours it was evacuated. "No one has lived here since." The explosion is called a result of bad planning and human error.
Why is Chernobyl called a single event?
The line "But Chernobyl was a single event" sets the explosion apart from "the true tragedy of our time," which "is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day." The following line names that tragedy: the loss of the planet's wild places and its biodiversity.
What is the finely tuned life-support machine?
The living world. The account describes billions of individuals and millions of kinds of plants and animals, dazzling in their variety, whose lives interlock and sustain each other. "We rely entirely on this finely tuned life-support machine," and it relies on its biodiversity to run smoothly.
What is the place in which we cannot live?
It is "what we see here": the emptied city. Biodiversity is being sent into a decline by the way humans live, and that decline, also blamed on bad planning and human error, "will lead to" a place where people cannot live.
Does the account treat the loss as already beyond repair?
No. It calls the loss "our greatest mistake," then says that if we act now, "we can yet put it right." It does not say the mistake has already been undone.
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