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Coral reefs are already appreciated for their beauty. But they provide another, more tangible benefit, too.
"Every day waves are coming ashore. And of course during storms you might have 20-foot waves. The reef is breaking those waves, essentially dissipating that energy before they hit the shoreline."
Mike Beck, a marine scientist for the Nature Conservancy and U.C. Santa Cruz.
"If we're to lose just a little bit of our reef—I mean we modeled just losing the topmost meter of reef—storm costs would double."
Beck and his team used 30 years of wind and wave data, combined with hydrodynamic, ecological and economic models, to figure out what future floods would look like, with shorter reefs. "And you repeat that, all around the world, for all 72,000 kilometers of coral reef coastline."

Overall, they found that the flood protection benefits of coral reefs save the global economy $4 billion dollars a year. And the biggest beneficiaries are Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Mexico, and Cuba. The full list is in the journal Nature Communications.
"National economies only account for what you take from ecosystems. That is, what you harvest every year gets included in your GDP—not the benefit of keeping it there." By pinning a number on the flood protection benefits of coral reefs, Beck says he hopes government economists will see corals as more than just a draw for snorkelers.
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总体来说，他们发现珊瑚礁的防洪效益每年为全球经济节省了40亿美元0PlCUroKD,g._A4。印度尼西亚、菲律宾、马来西亚、墨西哥和古巴是最大的受益国XnE%wr#AHvvoop。研究详情刊登在《自然·通讯》期刊上x-4)Ovef(cv(5^_DJf。
“国家经济只计算从生态系统中获得了什么tMod4&Iza*Y_kS|anrpC。也就是说，纳入GDP的是每年的收获，而不是保护生态的益处C(6HU;1kd;NZ。”通过计算珊瑚礁的防洪效益，贝克表示，他希望政府经济学家能看到珊瑚礁的更多价值，而不仅用它来吸引浮潜者!@9qiid|byP9。
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重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. figure out 想出；理解；弄清；
Scientists should figure out how to keep the natural world from mucking up the affairs of people.
科学家应该想办法防止大自然扰乱人类的活动EZgZB5Ub+);ZSJ*i-40。
2. all around 周围；
Varieties of these crops have been collected from all around the district.
这些不同的作物已从该地区各处收集起来Cd94PnWQw^H]LYQ。
3. account for 计算；
Last, and perhaps most important, financial institutions did not account for asset values accurately enough.
最后，而且可能是最重要的，金融机构没有足够准确地计算资产价值@reWgcB)Vo。
4. more than 不只是；
Now, if it was me, I'd want to do more than just change the locks.
不过，如果是我，我要做的就不仅仅是换锁了Qshe%um(.KK。