Should tourists go to Antarctica?

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coal
The world's largest coal field
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węgiel
wilderness
wilderness = area with no people and no agriculture because the difficult living conditions
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pustynia/ dzicz
to set foot
set foot in somewhere also set foot on somewhere to visit or go to a place
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postawic stope/ isc gdzies
ice caps
ice caps thick layer of ice covering permanently an area of land
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czapy lodowe/ pokrywa lodowa
carbon dioxide
global warming = the increase in world temperatures due to the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
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Dwutlenek węgla
vacuum
to disinfect to clean something using chemicals or vacuum to kill or remove bacteria. vacuum = hoover.
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odkurzac
wilderness
And in this programme we're talking about tourism, but in a very special place: Antarctica. It is considered the last great wilderness on Earth.
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dzicz
wilderness
Wilderness means an area with no people and no agriculture because of the difficult living conditions.
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dzicz
expected
Not so few – about 37,000 tourists are expected there this season.
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przewidywany
ashore
Many don't go ashore but there's no denying that it disturbs the environment.
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na ląd
to set foot in a place
We're asking if it is fair for tourists to set foot – it means to go to - such a sensitive environment.
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postawić stopę w miejscu,
ice caps
I've been reading that the ice caps – these are the thick layers of ice permanently covering a vast area of land in the Arctic and Antarctic - are melting due to global warming.
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czapy lodowe
carbon dioxide
global warming is the increase in world temperatures due to the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Dwutlenek węgla
aside
But penguins aside, what large resource can be found in Antarctica? That's my question for you today.
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na bok
habitat
I'm all too aware that this is not my habitat. Like a scuba diver under the sea I'm an alien visitor in the penguins' world
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siedlisko
scuba diver
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płetwonurek
polluting
Am I just by setting foot on this extraordinary continent polluting the last great wilderness on Earth?
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zanieczyszczających
breed
And we all go to the same places, the accessible coastline, which is also where the penguins and seals go to breed.
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hodować/ rodzic
Nonetheless
Nonetheless, he argues, carefully controlled tourism is not just okay but useful.
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Niemniej jednak
constituency
And tourism creates a global constituency of people ready to support and indeed fund its preservation.
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okręg wyborczy
fund its preservation
Antarctica needs advocates. And tourism creates a global constituency of people ready to support and indeed fund its preservation
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finansować zachowanie / ochrone
preservation
Antarctica needs advocates. And tourism creates a global constituency of people ready to support and indeed fund its preservation
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ochrona
indeed fund its preservation
Antarctica needs advocates. And tourism creates a global constituency of people ready to support and indeed fund its preservation.
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rzeczywiście finansuja jej zachowanie
outweigh
Not everyone is convinced that the benefits outweigh the risks, but most are pragmatic:
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przeważają
pragmatic
Not everyone is convinced that the benefits outweigh the risks, but most are pragmatic:
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pragmatyczny
pargmatyczny to najprosciej oparty na faktach. czlowiek pragmatyczny kieruje sie faktami i zdrowym rozsadkjkiem w przeciwienstwie do ludzi kierujacych sie uczuciami
preservation of the environment
when they go back to their countries, they defend conservation and give money to organisations which work for the preservation of the environment.
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Ochrona środowiska
mandatory briefing
We're given a mandatory briefing before gathering for a “vacuum party”
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Obowiązkowy instruktaz
briefing
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odprawa, instruktaż
mandatory
The definition of mandatory is something that is required.
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obowiązkowe
kit
We bio secure ourselves hovering our clothes and kit and disinfecting our boots to ensure we introduce no alien species to Antarctica.
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zestaw
introduce
We bio secure ourselves hovering our clothes and kit and disinfecting our boots to ensure we introduce no alien species to Antarctica.
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wprowadzać
to mine the coal
And now no one is able to mine the coal because the Antarctic Treaty has banned the exploitation of resources for 50 years.
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do kopalni węgla
habitat
I've seen foxes in the zoo, but not in their natural habitat
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siedlisko
habitat
The definition of a habitat is the natural environment of someone or something. An example of habitat is the desert to a camel. An example of habitat is the library to law students.
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siedlisko
nonetheless
Nonetheless is defined as however. Nonetheless, we have learned much.
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niemniej jednak
Niemniej jednak, dużo się nauczyliśmy.
contaminating
This is to avoid the risk of contaminating the region.
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zanieczyszczających
Treaty
And now no one is able to mine the coal because the Antarctic Treaty has banned the exploitation of resources for 50 years.
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Traktat / PAKT

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