to overcoming climate change effectively?

有效改善氣候變遷問題呢？

In your daily life there's kind of the obvious things

在日常生活中，有些顯而易見可做的事，

like flipping off the light switch.

例如隨手關燈。

Recycle.

回收。

Take public transport.

搭乘大眾運輸工具。

Avoid plastic bags at the supermarket.

避免在超市購物時使用塑膠袋。

Eat less meat.

少吃肉。

Use LED lighting in your home.

家裡使用 LED 燈。

Eat no meat if you're feeling really virtuous.

如果你覺得自己相當具有道德感，可考慮完全不吃肉。

Actually, it's not quite that simple.

事實上，這些沒有那麼簡單。

Basically, if you decide to go on a plant-based diet

基本上，如果你採行為期一年的植物性飲食，

for a year, you can save about 0.8 of a tonne of CO2.

可以省下大約 0.8 公噸的二氧化碳。

If you decide to avoid a transatlantic flight,

如果你減少一趟跨大西洋的飛行，

you're still around 2 tonnes.

則可以幫助節省約略 2 公噸。

The big, big difference that you can make,

你能做出的最大改變

avoiding 58 tonnes of CO2, is a decision

──可降低 58 公噸的二氧化碳──為決定

not to have another child.

不再生育另一個孩子。

And that's quite a frightening concept.

這個概念相當令人恐懼。

But I think our personal carbon footprints

但我認為我們的個人碳足跡

aren't the whole picture.

並非全部。

Actually, the really big emitters of emissions right now

實際上當前最大的排放者為

are big industries like the energy sector,

大型行業，像是能源產業、

like the industrial sector, like shipping, transport, aviation,

工業產業，如航運業、運輸業、航空業，

all of those sectors that frankly an individual cannot

坦白說，這些產業都無法

make much impact on just by small, individual,

僅憑微小且個人的舉動就能對其造成巨大的影響。

personal moves.

僅憑微小且個人的舉動就能對其造成巨大的影響。

The fact is that last year the world emitted

事實是去年世界總共排放了

about 38bn tonnes of CO2, mostly from burning

大約 380 億公噸的二氧化碳，其中大多數來自於

fossil fuels for energy.

燃燒化石燃料以獲取能源。

So, although individual action is important, it has an effect,

因此，儘管個人行動很重要，並會產生一定的影響，

it's never going to be able to achieve enough on its own,

它永遠無法獨自達到足夠的成效，

unless governments step in.

除非政府介入。

There's the Green New Deal in the US,

例如美國有「綠色新政」的提出，

and there's also a Green New Deal being discussed in Europe.

在歐洲綠色新政也備受討論。

It's kind of harking back to this wartime economy, all hands

這有點類似戰時經濟，所有人一起動員，

on deck, big investments are needed type of framework

需要大量投資

for decarbonising the economy.

來讓經濟低碳化。

In the US, the Green New Deal has

在美國，綠色新政

been a big talking point for all of the Democratic presidential

已成為所有民主黨總統候選人的一個重大討論主題。

candidates.

已成為所有民主黨總統候選人的一個重大討論主題。

So if climate change is an issue that you care about,

所以如果氣候變遷是你所關心的議題，

getting engaged in the policy discussion

參與政策討論

is also part of the answer.

也是其中一種可行方法。

You can also, as an individual, use your voice in elections.

你也能在選舉中為自己發聲。

You can vote for candidates that actually

可以選擇投票給那些實際

support some kind of measures to combat climate change.

支持使用某些措施來對抗氣候變遷的候選人。

But above all else, you can start

不過最重要的是，你可以開始

trying to take account of what's actually happening.

試著考慮實際發生的狀況。

You can try and do an audit.

你能學習做一個審核者。

People are increasingly thinking about the money

人們逐漸思考錢

and how they invest it, and trying

及其相關投資方式，並嘗試

to avoid things like the subprime mortgage crisis.

避免發生如次級房貸危機等事件。

Thinking about what's happening in our climate, if you like,

如果你願意，思考我們的氣候產生怎樣的變化

is just part of being a responsible citizen,

只是身為負責任公民的其中一部分任務，

and it's becoming more important every day.

這變得愈來愈重要。