Name: 【TED】羅伯•史旺: 一起拯救最後的淨土 (Robert Swan: Let's save the last pristine continent)
Uploaded: 2015-03-11T16:00:08.000Z
Duration: 16 min 7 s

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This is the direction of south, this way,

and if you go 8,000 kilometers out of the back of this room,

若你從這空間的後面再走 8 千公里

you will come to as far south as you can go anywhere on Earth,

and these photographs that I'm showing you here are dangerous.

而這些我向你展示的照片，是危險的

They are the ice melt of the South and North Poles.

we need to listen to what these places are telling us,

我們需要傾聽這些地區要告訢我們的訊號；

and if we don't, we will end up with our own survival situation

若不傾聽，我們將會終結我們自己的生存

and to walk across a melting ocean of ice

is without doubt the most frightening thing

It is protected by  the Antarctic Treaty, signed in 1959.

1959 年所簽署的南極條約保護著它；

In 1991, a 50-year agreement was entered into

在 1991 年，另一個 50 年的協議生效

that stops any exploitation in Antarctica,

people already far up north from here in the Arctic

taking out resources from areas already that have been covered in ice

奪取埋藏於冰層下的天然資源，

and think, "Why is the ice actually melting?"

思考「究竟為何冰層會融化？」

to make sure that what's happening up here in the North

does never happen,  cannot happen in the South.

Check out that haircut.  It's a bit odd. (Laughter)

看看這髮型，有點怪吧！(笑聲)

And at the age of 11,  I was inspired by the real explorers

to want to trying be the first to walk to both Poles.

想嘗試成為到訪南北極的第一人

我發現這真是難以置信的激勵人心

that the idea of becoming a polar traveler

went down pretty well with girls  at parties when I was at university.

在大學派對時對女孩是很吃得開的

And after years, seven years of fundraising,

seven years of being told by my family to seek counseling

eventually three of us found ourselves marching to the South Geographic Pole

終於，三名成員籌足了前往南極的經費

on the longest unassisted march ever made anywhere on Earth in history.

那是地球歷史上最長距離的無後援旅程

In this photograph, we are standing in an area

the size of the United States of America,

We have no radio  communications, no backup.

Beneath our feet, 90 percent of all the world's ice,

70 percent of all the world's fresh water.

On this journey, we faced the danger of crevasses,

在旅途中，我們遇到危險的裂縫

so cold that sweat turns to ice inside your clothing,

Let's just say it's a bit chilly. (Laughter)

這樣說好了，有點冷耶！(笑聲)

And after 70 desperate days, we arrive at the South Pole.

經過70天的磨難，我們抵達南極

But something happened to me on that 70-day journey in 1986

1986年70天旅程在我身上發生的事，

My eyes changed color in 70 days through damage.

我的眼睛在70天中因受損改變了顏色

皮膚都裂開了，我們都想知道發生了什麼事

And when we got home, we were told by NASA

返家後，太空總署 (NASA) 告訴我們

that a hole in the ozone had been discovered

and we'd walked underneath it the same year it had been discovered.

而就在那年，我們在破洞之下走著

Ultraviolet rays down, hit the ice, bounced back, fried out the eyes,

紫外線灑落大地，照射冰層後，反彈回來，灼傷了眠睛

Sixty days, every step away from the safety of land

在 60 天中，一步步離遠安全區域

Here's me coming in from washing naked at -60 Celsius.

這是我，從負 60 度低溫裸身洗澡回來

And if anybody ever says to you, "I am cold" -- (Laughter) --

如果任何人曾經跟你說過「我很冷」(笑聲)

if they look like this,  they are cold, definitely.

如果他們看起來像這樣，毫無疑問他們真的很冷。

And 1,000 kilometers away from the safety of land,

The Arctic Ocean melts beneath our feet four months before it ever had in history,

北極海在我們腳下融化了，就在首次被記載的四個月之前，

而我們卻在安全之地千里之外。

The ice is crashing around us, grinding, and I'm thinking, "Are we going to die?"

冰層在我們附近崩塌、碎裂，而我在想「我們的死期到了？」

But something clicked in my head on this day,

那天，一個念頭突然閃過腦海，

as I realized we, as a world, are in a survival situation,

我意識到，我們著整個世界正處於存亡關頭，

and that feeling has never gone away for 25 long years.

而那感覺在這 25 年來從未消逝。

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