We've got to care about this matter of global warming

我們必須關心全球變暖這件事

because if we don't do anything about it

因為如果我們什麼都不做的話

there won't be anybody here.

這裡不會有任何人。

During my lifetime the big change that's happened to the world

在我有生之年，世界上發生的最大變化是

has been the development of machines and devices and inventions.

一直是機器、設備和發明的發展。

It's about time we went back

我們是時候回去了

to taking an interest in the environment.

對環境產生興趣。

The Earth has an impossible atmosphere.

地球有一個不可能的大氣層。

For it to have happened by accident,

因為它是意外發生的。

the odds against it run into countless billions-to-one against.

的機率達到無數億比一。

So something's going on.

所以有事情發生了。

I tend to think of the Earth as alive in a sense

我傾向於認為地球在某種意義上是有生命的

like an animal or a plant or any other living thing.

像動物或植物或任何其他生物一樣。

Gaia looks after us.

蓋亞照顧著我們。

What happens to the planet

地球會發生什麼

when more carbon dioxide is put in the air?

當更多的二氧化碳被放進空氣中時？

The Earth will get hotter.

地球會變得更熱。

It will heat up to a point

它將升溫到一個點

where no life on it of our kind will be possible.

在那裡，我們這類人的生命將不可能存在。

Take an interest in the natural world,

對自然界感興趣。

in plants and animals and things that grow naturally.

在植物和動物以及自然生長的事物中。

Not worry too much at all about schooling.

根本不用太擔心學校教育。

The three R's yes, they're very important, but all the other stuff

三個R是的，它們非常重要，但所有其他的東西

I think could be ditched in favour

我認為可以棄用，以支持

of a better understanding of the world.

對世界有了更好的瞭解。

There are answers of various kinds

有各種類型的答案

but I think it needs the right sort of politics

但我認為它需要正確的政治。

to change people's thinking about these things

來改變人們對這些事情的想法

and I'd like to see these youngsters using their energies

我希望看到這些年輕人發揮他們的能量

and their talent in this way

和他們的才能，以這種方式

rather than looking for some techy answer

而不是去尋找一些技術性的答案

because I don't think the answer's going to come that way.

因為我不認為答案會以這種方式出現。

I think we have all the things needed to stop global warming

我認為我們擁有阻止全球變暖所需的所有東西

we're just not using them.

我們只是沒有使用它們。