Balch

"We´ve disconnected ourselves from living with fire," Balch says.

“我们现在已经将自己的生活与火灾剥离开来。”鲍尔奇说。

At the same time, people continue to treat fire as an event that needs to be wholly controlled and unleashed only out of necessity, says Professor Balch at the University of Colorado.

科罗拉多大学的鲍尔奇教授说，与此同时，人们一直把火当作一个需要完全控制且只有在必要的情况下才会让其释放的事件。

Dr Balch has done a back-of-the-envelope calculation.

鲍尔奇博士做过一个事后计算。

THIS month Jennifer Balch will head into the Amazon rainforest of Mato Grosso state, in Brazil.

本月，詹妮弗•鲍尔奇将走进巴西马托格罗索州的亚马逊雨林区。

Indeed, they are slow enough to be outrun-which is convenient for Dr Balch and her associates.

实际上，火势如此慢，鲍尔奇博士和她的同事完全可以有足够的时间从中逃脱。