The HIPPO juggernaut we have created, if unabated, is destined -- according to the best estimates of ongoing biodiversity research -- to reduce half of Earth's still surviving animal and plant species to extinction or critical endangerment by the end of the century.
人类如果不减弱这些力量 根据一直在进行的生物多样性研究的最乐观估计—— 也将使得地球现存的动植物种类中有一半 走向灭绝或走到濒危 的境地，也许就发生在本世纪末