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You are given a sentence in English. Your job is to translate the English sentence into Japanese.

And it was primarily because Kiribati realized that this was in their own self-interest to do this.
Solution: 第一にキリバス共和国が彼ら自身の利益になると理解したからです
Why? The English sentence is correctly translated into Japanese. Kiribati is correctly translated as キリバス.

New input: And Sylvia has said that we are destroying the oceans before we even know what's in them, and she's right.
Solution:

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
user
シルビアの言葉を借りればそこに何があるかを知る前に壊してしまっているその通りです