Sometimes we hear the earth is shot and the species is going to mutate into weird beings with plastic lungs, dying for food. The waters are dying.

有时候我们听说这个地球将资源枯竭，而人类将异化成装着塑料肺、拼命寻找食物的怪异的物种。

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And yet for all the apparent abundance, this area is so short of food that many are dying from starvation.

然而，除了以上这些表面上的富足外，这个地区对食物却是如此缺乏以致于许多人正死于饥饿。

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Many have used food normally kept for the family to feed their dying herds, some even going so far as to take the grass off the roofs of their houses, leaving them without adequate shelter.

很多家庭还必须拿出储存的食物喂食那些奄奄一息的畜群，甚至一些人拿掉房顶上的干草，自己则没有了足够的住房。

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Already there are widespread reports of livestock dying, and of the price of animals dropping a sign that owners are swapping their livelihoods for urgently needed food.

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