Name: 氣候變化：來自未來的吶喊--FT (Climate change: a cry from the future | FT)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T09:50:32.000Z
Duration: 9 min 50 s
Description: 【看影片學英語】數萬部 YouTube 影片，搭配英漢字典即點即查，輕鬆掌握單字發音與用法，長久累積看電影不必再看字幕。

情態副詞

Or, more importantly, how do you want me to say it?

I could stand here and narrate my world to you

like it's the opening credits of a disaster movie.

2050, far enough in the future for all this to seem plausible.

Climate catastrophe reported as normality, the daily index

In all these places, it is over 50 degrees centigrade.

If you go outside for more than your allotted hour,

as the statelets of a collapsed South Africa fight for water.

First use of live ammunition to keep the hordes out

I could be a newsreader, if we still have those.

A citizen journalist, screaming into a phone

against the backdrop of burning old growth forest.

Ported into your optic nerve through a neural network,

But not anything we'd recognise as TV news, or newspapers,

Whatever happens, whatever lies look like,

whatever truth becomes, it probably won't look like this.

This is an idea of the future that by the time

you're watching it is in the past anyway.

This is what the future looked like in our heads in 2019.

I'm just here saying, how do you want me to talk to us?

It feels now like we might have made a mistake about it.

Depending on which version of this future world

I mean, maybe we scared ourselves a bit too much.

and rioting in the cities, and the streets

polar bear that was all ribs, and hunger, and sadness.

piled in the uninhabitable streets, and the rise of idiots

feeding on fear with simplistic solutions.

Or from where you're watching this, a lot of that

Dengue fever's gearing up for a world tour.

People are dying of this stuff right now.

We lie down in the face of it because it's just too big,

Because we'll put our trust, our need to be saved from all that,

We'll take the chance of an off-moment of inspiration

The big discoveries of self-regenerating bodies,

and fusion power, and everything quiet, and humming,

with sulphates or electric cars or some method of clean energy

of the apocalypse hat at the last minute, to carbon

will save us through the power of eureka is seductive.

We've never really worked out how to talk about this.

Even if some of us took comfort in the voices

that only told us what we wanted to hear.

And then we spent a long time trying to blind ourselves

Graphs, red lines, colours, and concentrations,

parts per million, and rises of degrees, and millimetres.

And we look around ourselves and think, don't we?

These numbers are too small or too large or meaningless.

Which of them is easier to feel in our bones

If we could have sung scientific facts like pop songs,

we'd have got to the chorus sooner, but we didn't.

字幕列表影片播放

氣候變化：來自未來的吶喊--FT (Climate change: a cry from the future | FT)

immune

pretend

extreme

inspiration