Name: 氣候變化解釋：普通人能做什麼？FT (Climate change explained: what can ordinary people do? FT)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:33:43.000Z
Duration: 2 min 49 s

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to overcoming climate change effectively?

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，

避免在超市購物時使用塑膠袋。

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。

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，

The big, big difference that you can make,

──可降低 58 公噸的二氧化碳──為決定

But I think our personal carbon footprints

Actually, the really big emitters of emissions right now

are big industries like the energy sector,

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

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。

The fact is that last year the world emitted

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

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，

例如美國有「綠色新政」的提出，

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

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

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。

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，

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

You can vote for candidates that actually

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。

trying to take account of what's actually happening.

People are increasingly thinking about the money

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.

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氣候變化解釋：普通人能做什麼？FT (Climate change explained: what can ordinary people do? FT)

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