Soil degradation is bad for many reasons, but let me just tell you a couple.

土壤退化是坏的，原因有很多，但让我告诉你几个。

Fortunately, I can also tell you that there is a solution for these two wicked problems of soil degradation and climate change.

幸运的是，我也可以告诉你， 土壤退化和气候变化这两个邪恶的问题有一个解决方案。

And we also see it's still possible to hold other disastrous developments we're seeing, such as mass extinction and soil degradation -- yes, technically.

我们也看到， 我们仍然有可能看到其他灾难性的发展，比如大规模灭绝和土壤退化——是的， 从技术上讲。

And if we do so, we can then simultaneously address two of the most pressing global challenges of our time: climate change and soil degradation.

如果我们这样做，我们就可以同时应对我们这个时代最紧迫的两个全球挑战：气候变化和土壤退化。

But the major concern isn't just that soil degradation is happening but the increasing pace at which it is happening, what used to take 30 years to degrade is now happening in just a single year.

但主要的问题不只是土壤退化正在发生，而是土壤退化的速度正在加快，过去需要 30 年才能退化的土壤，现在只需要一年就能完成。