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Over this same period，all but ten percent of the large fish in the seas have disappeared due to overfishing ,approximately one-quarter of the planet's fertile soil has been damaged by intensive farming and the atmosphere has filled with greenhouse gases from motor vehicles and factories.
1.all but =almost 几乎
2. intensive farming 集约耕种
But the consequences of such rapid growth have been dramatic,too,in part because our systems of finance, production ,and trade are closely interconnected.
be closely interconnected 息息相关的，休息相关的
