Name: 【TED】範-瓊斯:塑膠的經濟不公(The economic injustice of plastic | Van Jones) (【TED】Van Jones: The economic injustice of plastic (The economic injustice of plastic | Van Jones))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:26:45.000Z
Duration: 13 min 20 s

基礎被動語態

譯者: Wang-Ju Tsai 審譯者: Shelley Krishna Tsang

and I'm honored to talk about this topic,

about the horrific impacts of plastic on the planet and on other species,

the use of plastic and the disposal of plastic,

the people who have the bull's-eye on their foreheads

大家對於英國石油油井的原油外泄

This is terrible, this oil -- it's in the water.

It's going to destroy the living systems there.

this oil is going to hurt the people in the Gulf."

What if the oil had made it safely to shore?

進而影響墨西哥灣周圍人們的生計

What if the oil actually got where it was trying to go?

Not only would it have been burned in engines and added to global warming,

but there's a place called "Cancer Alley,"

and the reason it's called "Cancer Alley"

順利地到達目的地（煉油厰）會怎樣呢？

It shortens the lives of the people who live there in the Gulf.

So oil and petrochemicals are not just a problem when there's a spill;

在生産的過程毒害了當地的居民。

住在墨西哥灣區的人們壽命因此而縮短。

for us to have these disposable products.

所以石油化工業即使在油井不漏油的時候

The other thing we often don't appreciate is,

it's not just at the point of production that poor people suffer.

Poor people also suffer at the point of use.

Those of us who earn a certain income level,

還有一件我們通常也不知道的事

The reason why you want to work hard and have a job

is so you can have choices, economic choices.

We actually get a chance to choose not to use products

that have dangerous, poisonous plastic in them.

Other people who are poor don't have those choices.

who are buying the products that have those dangerous chemicals in them

是因爲我們在經濟上想要保有選擇的能力。

Those are the people who wind up ingesting a disproportionate amount

那些包含危險的有毒的塑膠的產品。

And people say, "Well, they should just buy a different product."

Well, the problem with being poor is you don't have those choices.

You often have to buy the cheapest products.

去買那些内含有毒化學成分的產品

The cheapest products are often the most dangerous.

if it wasn't just the production of plastic that's giving people cancer

and shortening lives and hurting poor kids at the point of use --

可能有人會說，“他們應該買其它較安全的產品。”

但是問題是身為窮人，你是沒有其他的選擇的。

once again, it's poor people who bear the burden.

Often, we think we're doing a good thing:

而最便宜的產品通常也是最危險的。

You're in your office, drinking your bottled water or whatever it is,

如果這還不夠糟糕，還有更慘的：

and you think to yourself, "I'm going to throw this away.

No -- I'm going to be virtuous. I'm going to put it in the blue bin."

會帶給人們癌症，形成“癌症帶”，縮短性命

窮苦人家的小孩在使用的過程也會受害

And then you look at your colleague and say,

"Why, you cretin! You put yours in the white bin."

我們常常以爲我們在做正確的事

你在想，“我要把這瓶子丟掉。

And so we kind of have this moral feel-good moment.

But if we were to be able to follow that little bottle

把這個瓶子放進藍色的資源回收桶。”

你想，“我把我的瓶子放進藍桶子裏。”

we would be shocked to discover that, all too often,

that bottle is going to be put on a boat,

it's going to go all the way across the ocean

把你的塑膠瓶放在白色的桶子裏？”

我們把這個動作當作一個道德標簽

and it's going to wind up in a developing country, often China.

somebody's going to take the little bottle and say,

可能你不會，但是我是這麽覺得的。

"Oh, little bottle! We're so happy to see you, little bottle."

我們都因此有道德上感覺良好的時候。

但是要是我們跟著這個小塑膠瓶

And they say, "What would you like to do next?"

The little bottle says, "I just don't know ..."

最後到達一個開發中國家--通常是中國

有個人會拿起瓶子說，“噢，小小瓶子，

我們真高興見到你這個小瓶子。”

The recycling of plastic in many developing countries

“你的任務是如此完美地達成了”

means the incineration of the plastic, the burning of the plastic,

which releases incredible toxic chemicals

那個人又說，“接下來你想做什麽？”

And so, poor people who are making these products

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