Name: TED】邁克爾-斯佩克特。拒絕科學的危險 (The danger of science denial | Michael Specter) (【TED】Michael Specter: The danger of science denial (The danger of science denial | Michael Specter))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:26:25.000Z
Duration: 19 min 2 s

Let's pretend right here we have a machine.

一臺巨大的、炫麗的、很 TED 的機器，

And everyone in this room has to get into it.

And you can go backwards, you can go forwards;

在這房間裡的每一個人都要走進這個時間機器

你可以選擇回到過去、或走向未來

And I wonder what you'd choose, because I've been asking my friends

this question a lot lately and they all want to go back.

我在想你們會怎麼選，因為最近我問我朋友，

I don't know. They want to go back before there were automobiles

我不知道。他們想要回到沒有汽車、

沒有 Twitter 或《美國偶像》（American Idol）的年代

I'm convinced that there's some sort of pull

我肯定他們心裡有種懷舊的情愫

I'm not part of that crowd, I have to say.

I don't want to go back, and it's not because I'm adventurous.

但我必須承認，我跟他們不是同一掛的

It's because possibilities on this planet,

我不想回到過去，不是因為我喜歡冒險 --

So I want to get in the machine, and I want to go forward.

無法從過去獲得，你要向未來前進

This is the greatest time there's ever been on this planet

也就是說，我想走進這個機器，走到未來

不管你用何種方式來衡量，如：

My grandparents pushed that number to 70.

我的祖父母多一些，他們在70多歲時離去

a nine at the beginning of my death number.

今天，在新德里出生的某個小孩

the richest man in the world did 100 years ago.

Think about that, it's an incredible fact.

世界上最富有的人一樣長的壽命

你想想，這是個多麼了不起的事!

天花曾奪走地球上數以億計人的生命

diseases that threatened millions of us just a generation ago

那曾經威脅上個世代數百萬人的疾病

does anyone even know what those things are?

白喉、德國麻疹、小兒麻痹......

those are triumphs of the scientific method.

以及人類為數百萬人提供食品的能力

seeing if it works, changing it when it doesn't --

is one of the great accomplishments of humanity.

because there are some other problems, and they've been mentioned many times.

因為我們遇到其他一些難題，它們也被提過很多次

但目前，世界上還有10億人挨餓著

That number's rising, and it's rising really rapidly, and it's disgraceful.

每天，他們都忍受著饑餓的折磨

And not only that, we've used our imagination

這數字還在上升，上升的速度很快，令人感到羞愧

除此之外，我們還使用自身的想像力

they're going away, and they're going away soon,

and unless we innovate our way out of this mess,

這些資源都在流失，並且即將消失殆盡

So the question is: Can we do that? And I think we can.

問題是: 我們做得到嗎? 我想我們可以

that will feed billions of people without raping the land that they live on.

我認為我們可以產出足以養活數十億人的糧食

I think we can power this world with energy

而不會損害他們賴以維生的土地

我認為，我們可以找到對環境友善的能源

I really do believe that, and, no, it ain't wishful thinking.

But here's the thing that keeps me up at night --

我確實是這麼相信的，絕非一廂情願

one of the things that keeps me up at night:

We've never needed progress in science more than we need it right now. Never.

在我們的歷史上，從來沒有如今天這般急需科技的進步。從來沒有。

to deploy it properly in the way that we can today.

在歷史上，我們也從未有過今天這樣的時機，

We're on the verge of amazing, amazing events

讓我們可以按照自己的意願使用這些科技

and yet I actually think we'd have to go back

hundreds, 300 years, before the Enlightenment,

儘管如此，事實上，我認為我們必須回頭看看

回到300年前，回到啓蒙時代以前

只有在那個年代，才有人抵抗進步

more vigorously, on more fronts, than we do now.

and they do it so tightly that you can't set them free.

他們捆綁自己，使自己無法脫身

And, listen, everyone's entitled to their opinion;

即便是真理也無法使他們獲得自由

they're even entitled to their opinion about progress.

聽著，每個人都有權抱持他的觀點，

But you know what you're not entitled to?

他們甚至有權聲稱他們關於進步的意見

You're not entitled to your own facts. Sorry, you're not.

你無權堅稱你自己所知道的事實。抱歉，你就是無法。

About a decade ago, I wrote a story about vaccines

我也是花了一段時間才領悟出來的

大約十年前，我在《紐約客》上寫一篇

TED】邁克爾-斯佩克特。拒絕科學的危險 (The danger of science denial | Michael Specter) (【TED】Michael Specter: The danger of science denial (The danger of science denial | Michael Specter))

字幕列表影片播放

TED】邁克爾-斯佩克特。拒絕科學的危險 (The danger of science denial | Michael Specter) (【TED】Michael Specter: The danger of science denial (The danger of science denial | Michael Specter))

stuff

absolutely

ridiculous

bunch