Name: 讓你的氣候行動反映在你的言語中 - Severn Cullis-Suzuki (Make your actions on climate reflect your words | Severn Cullis-Suzuki)
Uploaded: 2020-11-03T19:01:17.000Z
Duration: 7 min 13 s

Transcriber: TED Translators Admin Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs

轉錄者TED Translators Admin Reviewer:Rhonda Jacobs

(Video) Severn Cullis-Suzuki: I am here  to speak for all generations to come.

(視頻)塞文-庫利斯-鈴木：我在這裡為所有後代說話。

I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world

我在這裡代表全世界的飢餓兒童發言

I'm here to speak for the countless animals

(Video) SCS: I am afraid  to go out in the sun now

視頻）SCS：我現在都不敢出去晒太陽了。

because I don't know what chemicals are in it.

因為我不知道里面有什麼化學物質。

I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my dad,

我曾經和爸爸一起去我家溫哥華釣魚。

SCS: A generation ago, I was that 12-year-old child.

SCS：一代人之前，我就是那個12歲的孩子。

to speak to the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

在里約熱內盧的聯合國地球峰會上發言。

My friends and I had started an environmental club,

我和朋友們成立了一個環保俱樂部。

and we'd traveled to this huge international meeting

我們來到這個巨大的國際會議上。

to tell the adults they had to change their ways.

來告訴大人們他們必須改變自己的方式。

would issue the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity

將發佈世界科學家對人類的警告。

to tell us that humans and the natural world

Much like Greta Thunberg and her peers today,

很像今天的葛麗泰-圖恩伯格和她的同齡人。

we believed that decision-makers should be acting on science and facts.

我們認為，決策者應該根據科學和事實行事。

that we were headed for ecological collapse.

(Video) SCS: All this is happening  before our eyes,

視頻）SCS：這一切都在我們眼前發生。

and yet we act as if we have all the time we want

但我們卻表現得好像我們擁有所有我們想要的時間

SCS: Back then, climate change had been identified,

SCS：當時已經確定了氣候變化。

climate change is no longer a prediction.

It is here, and it happened far faster than even the experts predicted.

它就在這裡，而且它的發生速度遠遠超過了專家們的預測。

Today the work that we must do is about mitigation,

今天，我們必須做的工作是關於緩解。

to limit the planet's warming to one and a half degrees Celsius,

將地球的升溫限制在攝氏1.5度以內。

as beyond that would pose too great a threat to human life.

因為超出這個範圍將對人的生命構成太大威脅。

we will have to cut our global emissions by half in the next 10 years.

我們必須在未來10年內將全球排放量減少一半。

(Video) SCS: I'm only a child  and I don't have all the solutions,

視頻）SCS：我是獨生子女，我沒有所有的解決辦法。

but I want you to realize neither do you.

但我想讓你明白，你也不知道。

SCS: Young people are always at the frontlines of any revolution.

SCS：年輕人總是站在任何革命的第一線。

Why didn't the delegates actually listen?"

I think that the delegates of the conference actually did listen,

我想，會議的代表們其實也是聽了的。

but to the thousands of voices calling for change.

但對成千上萬要求改變的聲音。

If you look at the declarations, the documents that came out of Rio,

如果你看一下里約會議的宣言和文件。

They include the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change

其中包括《聯合國氣候變化框架公約》。

greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere

and prevent dangerous interference with the climate system.

並防止對氣候系統的危險干擾。

Twenty-three years before the Paris Agreement,

154 countries signed this legally binding international agreement.

有154個國家簽署了這項具有法律約束力的國際協定。

(Video) SCS: I'm only a child, yet I know we are all in this together

(視頻)SCS：我只是個孩子，但我知道我們都在一起。

and should act as one single world towards one single goal.

並應作為一個單一的世界朝著一個單一的目標行動。

SCS: So, why didn't the world take action?

SCS：那麼，為什麼世界上沒有采取行動呢？

Instead, governments focused on growing the economy,

相反，政府把重點放在發展經濟上。

and of course, winning the next election.

where our political systems make it impossible

to act in long-term interests for the people and future generations.

從人民和後代的長遠利益出發；

We have the Paris Agreement to limit the Earth's warming.

我們有限制地球變暖的《巴黎協定》。

We have youth and social justice demands.

我們有青年和社會正義的要求。

我們已經發出了氣候緊急狀況的呼籲。

We have the science, we have the solutions

and we all are experiencing climate change.

我們正處於與里約平行的時刻。

(Video) SCS: If you don't know  how to fix it,

視頻）SCS：如果你不知道如何解決。

SCS: How do we ensure that this time we act on our words?

SCS：我們如何確保這次言出必行？

History has shown us that in moments of crisis,

我們在戰爭時期也見過這種情況。

in times of economic collapse and in times of disease.

在經濟崩潰的時候，在疾病的時候。

今天，我們生活在COVID-19的時代。

We've seen governments and institutions across all sectors

我們已經看到各部門的政府和機構

Humans like to think that we're in control of everything,

人類喜歡認為自己能掌控一切。

that the laws of nature are the true bottom line.

We've been reminded that science and expertise are crucial to our survival.

我們已經被提醒，科學和專業知識對我們的生存至關重要。

COVID-19對不公平現象進行了報道。

and revealed our prejudiced infrastructures.

並揭示了我們的偏見基礎設施。

如果我們不聽，如果我們不改變。

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