Roz Savage: Why I'm rowing across the Pacific

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Hi, my name is Roz Savage

Pozdrav, moje ime je Roz Savage

and I row across oceans.

i veslam preko oceana.

Four years ago, I rowed solo across the Atlantic,

Prije četiri godine, sama sam preveslala Atlantik,

and since then, I've done two out of three stages

i od tada, prešla sam dvije od tri etape

across the Pacific,

preko Pacifika,

from San Francisco to Hawaii

od San Francisca do Havaja

and from Hawaii to Kiribati.

i od Havaja do Kiribatija.

And tomorrow, I'll be leaving this boat

A sutra napuštam ovaj brod

to fly back to Kiribati

i letim natrag u Kiribati

to continue with the third and final stage

kako bih nastavila s trećom, završnom etapom

of my row across the Pacific.

veslanja preko Pacifika.

Cumulatively, I will have rowed

Ukupno, preveslat ću

over 8,000 miles,

preko 12,000 kilometara,

taken over three million oar strokes

zamahnuti veslima preko 3 milijuna puta

and spent more than 312 days alone

i provesti više od 312 dana sama

on the ocean on a 23 foot rowboat.

na oceanu, u sedam-metarskom čamcu.

This has given me a very

Ovo mi je pružilo

special relationship with the ocean.

vrlo posebnu vezu s oceanom.

We have a bit of a love/hate thing going on.

Imamo onaj odnos ljubavi i mržnje.

I feel a bit about it like I did about

Imam osjećaje prema njemu, kakve sam imala

a very strict math teacher that I once had at school.

jednom u školi, prema vrlo strogoj nastavnici matematike.

I didn't always like her, but I did respect her,

Nisam ju uvijek voljela, no poštovala sam ju.

and she taught me a heck of a lot.

I naučila me užasno puno toga.

So today I'd like to share with you

Danas bih s vama htjela podijeliti

some of my ocean adventures

neke od mojih oceanskih avantura

and tell you a little bit about what they've taught me,

i reći vam što su me one naučile,

and how I think we can maybe take some of those lessons

i kako mislim da možemo preuzeti neke od tih lekcija

and apply them to this environmental challenge

te ih primijeniti na izazov vezan uz okoliš

that we face right now.

s kojim smo sada suočeni.

Now, some of you might be thinking,

E sad, neki od vas možda misle,

"Hold on a minute. She doesn't look very much like an ocean rower.

"Čekaj malo. Ona ne izgleda baš kao prekooceanska veslačica.

Isn't she meant to be about this tall

Ne bi li trebala biti ovoliko visoka

and about this wide

i otprilike ovoliko široka,

and maybe look a bit more like these guys?"

možda biti sličnija ovim dečkima?"

You'll notice, they've all got something that I don't.

Primijetit ćete, svi oni imaju nešto što ja nemam.

Well, I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm talking about the beards. (Laughter)

Dobro, ne znam na što vi mislite, ali ja govorim o bradama.

And no matter how long I've spent on the ocean,

I ma koliko dugo bila na oceanu,

I haven't yet managed to muster a decent beard,

još uvijek nisam uspjela dobiti pristojnu bradu.

and I hope that it remains that way.

Nadam se da će tako i ostati.

For a long time, I didn't believe that I could have a big adventure.

Dugo vremena, nisam vjerovala da ću imati tako veliku pustolovinu.

The story that I told myself was

Priča koju sam si govorila bila je

that adventurers looked like this.

da pustolovine izgledaju ovako.

I didn't look the part.

Nisam se vidjela kao dio toga.

I thought there were them and there were us,

Mislila sam kako su tu oni, a tamo mi,

and I was not one of them.

i ja nisam bila jedna od njih.

So for 11 years, I conformed.

I tako sam se 11 godina prilagođavala.

I did what people from my kind of background were supposed to do.

Radila ono što bi ljudi moga staleža trebali raditi.

I was working in an office in London

Radila sam u uredu u Londonu

as a management consultant.

kao konzultant za menadžment.

And I think I knew from day one that it wasn't the right job for me.

I mislim kako sam od prvog dana znala da to nije pravi posao za mene.

But that kind of conditioning

No ta vrsta prilagodbe uvjetima

just kept me there for so many years,

me je držala tamo tolike godine,

until I reached my mid-30s and I thought,

dok nisam došla u tridesete i pomislila,

"You know, I'm not getting any younger.

"Znaš, ne postajem mlađa.

I feel like I've got a purpose in this life, and I don't know what it is,

Osjećam da imam svrhu u životu, ne znam što je,

but I'm pretty certain that management consultancy is not it.

no prilično sam sigurna kako to nije savjetovanje menadžera."

So, fast forward a few years.

Dakle, preskočimo nekoliko godina.

I'd gone through some changes.

Prošla sam kroz neke promjene.

To try and answer that question of,

Kako bih pokušala odgovoriti na pitanje

"What am I supposed to be doing with my life?"

što bih trebala napraviti sa svojim životom?

I sat down one day

Jednog dana sam sjela

and wrote two versions of my own obituary,

i napisala dvije verzije vlastite osmrtnice,

the one that I wanted, a life of adventure,

jedne koju sam željela, o pustolovnom životu,

and the one that I was actually heading for

i druge prema kojoj sam išla

which was a nice, normal, pleasant life,

koja je opisivala lijep, normalan, ugodan život,

but it wasn't where I wanted to be by the end of my life.

ali to nije bilo ono što sam htjela biti do kraju svog života.

I wanted to live a life that I could be proud of.

Htjela sam živjeti život kojim bih se ponosila.

And I remember looking at these two versions of my obituary

I sjećam se kako gledam na te dvije verzije osmrtnica

and thinking, "Oh boy,

i razmišljam, "Joj,

I'm on totally the wrong track here.

ja sam na totalno krivom tragu.

If I carry on living as I am now,

Ako nastavim ovako živjeti,

I'm just not going to end up where I want to be

jednostavno neću završiti tamo gdje želim biti

in five years, or 10 years,

za 5, ili za 10 godina,

or at the end of my life."

ili na kraju svog života.

I made a few changes,

Promijenila sam neke stvari,

let go of some loose trappings of my old life,

oslobodila se nekoliko zamki svoga staroga života,

and through a bit of a leap of logic,

i preko nekoliko logičnih koraka,

decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean.

odlučila preveslati Atlantski ocean.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

The Atlantic Rowing Race runs from the Canaries to Antigua,

Utrka preko Atlantika vesla se od Kanarskih otoka do Antigue.

it's about 3,000 miles,

Oko 5,000 km.

and it turned out to be

I to je ispala

the hardest thing I had ever done.

najteža stvar koju sam ikada napravila.

Sure, I had wanted to get outside of my comfort zone,

Naravno, htjela sam izaći iz svoje ugodne zone,

but what I'd sort of failed to notice was that

no ono što nisam uspjela primijetiti je

getting out of your comfort zone is, by definition,

kako je izlazak iz svoje ugodne zone, po definiciji,

extremely uncomfortable.

iznimno neugodan.

And my timing was not great either:

Ni moj odabir trenutka nije bio sjajan.

2005, when I did the Atlantic,

2005., kada sam prešla Atlantik,

was the year of Hurricane Katrina.

bila je godina uragana Katarina.

There were more tropical storms in the North Atlantic

Bilo je više tropskih oluja u sjevernom Atlantiku

than ever before, since records began.

nego ikad prije, otkako se vode bilješke.

And pretty early on,

I prilično rano

those storms started making their presence known.

te oluje su se počele pojavljivati.

All four of my oars broke

Sva moja četiri vesla su pukla

before I reached halfway across.

prije nego što sam došla do pola puta.

Oars are not supposed to look like this.

Vesla ne bi trebala izgledati ovako.

But what can you do? You're in the middle of the ocean.

No, što možete? Usred oceana ste.

Oars are your only means of propulsion.

Vesla su vaše jedino sredstvo kretanja.

So I just had to look around the boat

Jedino sam mogla pogledati po brodu

and figure out what I was going to use

i smisliti što iskoristiti

to fix up these oars so that I could carry on.

za popravak vesala, kako bih mogla nastaviti.

So I found a boat hook and my trusty duct tape

Tako sam pronašla kuku za brod i moj vjerni selotejp

and splintered the boat hook

i nakalemila brodsku kuku

to the oars to reinforce it.

na vesla kako bih ih ojačala.

Then, when that gave out,

Nakon što je to popustilo,

I sawed the wheel axles off my spare rowing seat

spojila sam osovine sa svog rezervnog veslačkog sjedala

and used those.

i njih iskoristila.

And then when those gave out, I cannibalized one of the broken oars.

A kada je i to popustilo, kanibalizirala sam jedno od puknutih vesala.

I'd never been very good at fixing stuff

Nikad nisam bila osobito dobra u popravcima

when I was living my old life,

dok sam živjela starim životom,

but it's amazing how resourceful you can become

No zadivljujuće je kako snalažljivi možete postati

when you're in the middle of the ocean

kada ste usred oceana

and there's only one way to get to the other side.

i postoji samo jedan način dolaska na drugu stranu.

And the oars kind of became a symbol

I vesla su na neki način postala simbol

of just in how many ways

na koliko sve načina

I went beyond what I thought were my limits.

mogu prijeći ono što sam smatrala svojim granicama.

I suffered from tendinitis on my shoulders

Patila sam od upale ligamenata u ramenima

and saltwater sores on my bottom.

i rane od slane vode na mojoj stražnjici.

I really struggled psychologically,

Doista sam se psihološki borila,

totally overwhelmed by the scale of the challenge,

potpuno nadmašena veličinom izazova,

realizing that, if I carried on moving at two miles an hour,

shvaćajući kako, ako nastavim ploviti tri kilometra na sat,

3,000 miles was going to

za 5,000 kilometara

take me a very, very long time.

će mi trebati dugo, dugo vremena.

There were so many times

Toliko puta

when I thought I'd hit that limit,

sam pomislila kako sam došla do granice,

but had no choice but to just carry on

ali nisam imala izbora nego jednostavno nastaviti

and try and figure out how I was going to get to the other side

i pokušavati smisliti kako doći na drugu stranu

without driving myself crazy.

a da ne poludim.

And eventually after

I na kraju, nakon

103 days at sea,

103 dana na moru,

I arrived in Antigua.

došla sam na Antiguu.

I don't think I've ever felt so happy

Mislim kako nikada nisam bila tako sretna

in my entire life.

u cijelom svom životu.

It was a bit like finishing a marathon

Bilo je to poput završetka maratona

and getting out of solitary confinement

i izlaska iz samice

and winning an Oscar all rolled into one.

i osvajanja Oskara, sve odjednom.

I was euphoric.

Bila sam euforična.

And to see all the people coming out to greet me

Gledala sam sve one ljude koji su mi dolazili čestitati,

and standing along the cliff tops and clapping and cheering,

koji su stajali na stijenama, pljeskali i navijali,

I just felt like a movie star.

osjećala sam se kao filmska zvijezda.

It was absolutely wonderful.

Bilo je to potpuno predivno.

And I really learned then that, the bigger the challenge,

I doista sam naučila, što je veći izazov

the bigger the sense of achievement

veći je osjećaj postignuća

when you get to the end of it.

kada stignete do kraja.

So this might be a good moment to take a quick time-out

To bi mogao biti dobar trenutak za predah

to answer a few FAQs about ocean rowing

i odgovore na neka često postavljana pitanja o veslanju preko oceana

that might be going through your mind.

koja bi vam mogla prolaziti kroz glavu.

Number one that I get asked: What do you eat?

Prvo pitanje koje mi postavljaju: Što jedeš?

A few freeze-dried meals, but mostly I try and eat

Nešto smrznutih i osušenih obroka, no većinom pokušavam jesti

much more unprocessed foods.

neobrađenu hranu.

So I grow my own beansprouts.

Uzgajam vlastite klice.

I eat fruits and nut bars,

Jedem voće i prutiće od orašastih plodova,

a lot of nuts.

puno orašastih plodova,

And generally arrive about 30 pounds lighter

i obično se vratim nekih 15 kg lakša

at the other end.

na drugu obalu.

Question number two: How do you sleep?

Pitanje drugo: Kako spavaš?

With my eyes shut. Ha-ha.

Zatvorenih očiju. Haha.

I suppose what you mean is:

Ono što mislite je, pretpostavljam:

What happens to the boat while I'm sleeping?

Što se događa s čamcem dok spavam?

Well, I plan my route so that I'm drifting

Pa, planiram rutu tako da dok spavam

with the winds and the currents while I'm sleeping.

plutam pomoću vjetra i morskih struja

On a good night, I think my best ever was 11 miles

U dobrim noćima, mislim da mi je rekord bio 18 km

in the right direction.

u pravom smjeru.

Worst ever, 13 miles in the wrong direction.

Najlošija noć, 20 km u krivom smjeru.

That's a bad day at the office.

To se zove imati loš dan na poslu.

What do I wear?

Što oblačim?

Mostly, a baseball cap,

Najčešće, kapu za bejzbol,

rowing gloves and a smile -- or a frown,

veslačke rukavice, i osmijeh, ili namrgođenu facu,

depending on whether I went backwards overnight --

ovisi o tome jesam li noću išla u krivom smjeru.

and lots of sun lotion.

I puno kreme za sunčanje.

Do I have a chase boat?

Imam li brod koji me prati?

No I don't. I'm totally self-supporting out there.

Nemam. Potpuno sam sama tamo.

I don't see anybody for the whole time

Ne vidim nikoga cijelo vrijeme

that I'm at sea, generally.

dok sam na moru, uglavnom.

And finally: Am I crazy?

I konačno: Jesam li luda?

Well, I leave that one up to you to judge.

Pa, to ostavljam vama na prosudbu.

So, how do you top rowing across the Atlantic?

I, kako nadmašiti veslanje preko Atlantika?

Well, naturally, you decide to row across the Pacific.

Prirodno, odlučite preveslati Pacifik.

Well, I thought the Atlantic was big,

Dakle, mislila sam kako je Atlantik velik,

but the Pacific is really, really big.

no Pacifik je doista, doista velik.

I think we tend to do it a little bit of a disservice in our usual maps.

Mislim kako mu ne činimo baš uslugu na običnim kartama.

I don't know for sure that the Brits

Ne znam zasigurno jesu li Britanci

invented this particular view of the world, but I suspect we might have done so:

izumili ovaj pogled na svijet, no sumnjam kako smo to mogli napraviti mi

we are right in the middle,

jer evo nas, baš smo u sredini.

and we've cut the Pacific in half

Odvojili smo Pacifik na pola

and flung it to the far corners of the world.

i bacili ga na daleke rubove svijeta,

Whereas if you look in Google Earth,

dok, pogledate li na Google Earthu,

this is how the Pacific looks.

ovako izgleda Pacifik.

It pretty much covers half the planet.

Zapravo pokriva pola planeta.

You can just see a little bit of North America up here

Ovdje gore možete vidjeti samo malo Sjeverne Amerike

and a sliver of Australia down there.

i trunčicu Australije tu dolje.

It is really big --

Doista je ogroman.

65 million square miles --

170 milijuna kliometara kvadratnih.

and to row in a straight line across it

I da biste ga preveslali u jednom pravcu,

would be about 8,000 miles.

to je oko 13,000 kilometara.

Unfortunately, ocean rowboats

Nažalost, prekooceanski veslački brodovi

very rarely go in a straight line.

vrlo rijetko putuju po crti.

By the time I get to Australia,

Dok dođem do Australije,

if I get to Australia,

ako dođem do Australije,

I will have rowed probably nine or 10,000 miles in all.

vjerojatno ću ukupno preveslati 15-ak tisuća kilometara.

So, because nobody in their straight mind would row

I kako bi netko zdrave pameti veslao

straight past Hawaii without dropping in,

preko Havaja, a da ne navrati.

I decided to cut this very big undertaking

Odlučila sam podijeliti ovaj veliki pothvat

into three segments.

u tri segmenta.

The first attempt didn't go so well.

Prvi pokušaj nije dobro prošao.

In 2007, I did a rather involuntary capsize drill

U 2007. sam napravlia neželjenu vježbu prevrtanja

three times in 24 hours.

3 puta u 24 sata.

A bit like being in a washing machine.

Nešto kao da ste u stroju za pranje rublja.

Boat got a bit dinged up,

Brod se malo zadrmao,

so did I.

a tako i ja.

I blogged about it. Unfortunately, somebody

Pisala sam o tome na blogu. Nažalost, netko

with a bit of a hero complex decided that

s nešto malo kompleksa heroja odlučio je

this damsel was in distress and needed saving.

kako je ova dama u nevolji i treba ju spasiti.

The first I knew about this was when the Coast Guard plane turned up overhead.

To sam saznala prvi put kada mi se avion Obalne straže pojavio iznad glave.

I tried to tell them to go away.

Pokušala sam im reći da odu.

We had a bit of a battle of wills.

Imali smo malu bitke volje.

I lost and got airlifted.

Izgubila sam i podigli su me.

Awful, really awful.

Užasno, stvarno užasno.

It was one of the worst feelings of my life,

Bio je to jedan od najgorih osjećaja u mom životu.

as I was lifted up on that winch line into the helicopter

Dok su me na onoj dizalici podizali u helikopter

and looked down at my trusty little boat

gledala sam svoj mali pouzdani čamac

rolling around in the 20 foot waves

koji se valja na 6-metarskim valovima

and wondering if I would ever see her again.

i razmišljala hoću li ga ikad više vidjeti.

So I had to launch a very expensive

Tako sam morala pokrenuti vrlo skupu

salvage operation

operaciju spašavanja broda

and then wait another nine months

i čekati još 9 mjeseci

before I could get back out onto the ocean again.

prije nego sam se mogla ponovno vratiti na ocean.

But what do you do?

No što možete?

Fall down nine times, get up 10.

Padnete devet puta, ustanete deset.

So, the following year, I set out

Sljedeće sam godine isplovila

and, fortunately, this time made it safely across to Hawaii.

i srećom, ovaj puta sretno stigla do Havaja.

But it was not without misadventure.

No put nije bio bez nezgoda.

My watermaker broke,

Moj aparat za vodu se pokvario,

only the most important piece of kit that I have on the boat.

najvažniji komad opreme kojeg imam na brodu.

Powered by my solar panels,

Napajan solarnim ćelijama,

it sucks in saltwater

usisava slanu vodu

and turns it into freshwater.

i pretvara je u svježu vodu.

But it doesn't react very well to being immersed in ocean,

No ne reagira baš najbolje kada ga uronite u ocean,

which is what happened to it.

što mu se dogodilo.

Fortunately, help was at hand.

Srećom, pomoć je bila u blizini.

There was another unusual boat out there

Tamo se nalazio još jedan neobičan brod

at the same time, doing as I was doing,

koji je radio što i ja,

bringing awareness to the North Pacific Garbage Patch,

podizao je svjesnost o sjevernopacifičkoj mrlji smeća,

that area in the North Pacific about twice the size of Texas,

onom dijelu sjevernog Pacifika duplo većeg od Teksasa,

with an estimated 3.5 million

s procijenjenih 3.5 milijuna

tons of trash in it,

tona smeća,

circulating at the center of

koje kruži u središtu

that North Pacific Gyre.

sjevernopacifičkih strujanja.

So, to make the point, these guys

Kako bi osnažili svoju poruku, ti dečki

had actually built their boat out of plastic trash,

su u stvari napravili čamac od plastičnog smeća,

15,000 empty water bottles

15,000 praznih boca vode

latched together into two pontoons.

skupa zavezanih u dva pontona.

They were going very slowly.

Plovili su vrlo sporo.

Partly, they'd had a bit of a delay.

Djelomično su malo kasnili.

They'd had to pull in at Catalina Island shortly after they left Long Beach

Morali su pristati na otoku Catalina tek što su otišli iz Long Beacha

because the lids of all the water bottles were coming undone,

jer su se počeli otvarati čepovi svih boca

and they were starting to sink.

i počinjali su tonuti.

So they'd had to pull in and do all the lids up.

Zato su trebali pristati i popraviti čepove.

But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves,

No, kako sam se približavala kraju svojih rezervi vode,

luckily, our courses were converging.

srećom, naši putovi su se sreli.

They were running out of food; I was running out of water.

Njima je ponestajalo hrane, meni vode.

So we liaised by satellite phone and arranged to meet up.

Pa smo se povezali satelitskim telefonom i dogovorili susret.

And it took about a week

I trebalo nam je oko tjedan dana

for us to actually gradually converge.

da se doista polako i susretnemo.

I was doing a pathetically slow speed

Ja sam plovila posebno sporo,

of about 1.3 knots,

oko 1.3 čvorova,

and they were doing only marginally less pathetic speed of about 1.4:

a oni su plovili mrvicu manje patetičnom brzinom od oko 1.4.

it was like two snails in a mating dance.

Bili smo kao dva puža u plesu parenja.

But, eventually, we did manage to meet up

No, na kraju smo se ipak uspjeli sresti

and Joel hopped overboard,

i Joel je skočio k meni,

caught us a beautiful, big mahi-mahi,

uhvatio nam krasnu, veliku ribu mahi mahi,

which was the best food I'd had

što je bio najbolji obrok kojeg sam imala

in, ooh, at least three months.

u, oh, barem tri mjeseca.

Fortunately, the one that he caught that day

Srećom, riba koju su uhvatili taj dan

was better than this one they caught a few weeks earlier.

bila je bolja od one koju su oni uhvatili par tjedana prije.

When they opened this one up,

Kada su ovu otvorili,

they found its stomach was full of plastic.

vidjeli su kako joj je želudac bio prepun plastike.

And this is really bad news because plastic

A to je doista loša vijest

is not an inert substance.

jer plastika nije inertna tvar.

It leaches out chemicals

Ona ispušta kemikalije

into the flesh of the poor critter that ate it,

u tijelo jadne životinje koja ju je progutala,

and then we come along and eat that poor critter,

i tada dolazimo mi i pojedemo jadnu životinju,

and we get some of the toxins accumulating

i mi također akumuliramo nešto toksina

in our bodies as well.

u našim tijelima.

So there are very real implications for human health.

To su vrlo stvarni problemi za zdravlje ljudi.

I eventually made it to Hawaii still alive.

Nekako sam uspjela živa stići do Havaja.

And, the following year, set out

I, sljedeće godine, isplovila

on the second stage of the Pacific,

na drugu etapu Pacifika,

from Hawaii down to Tarawa.

od Havaja do Tarawe.

And you'll notice something about Tarawa;

I primijetit ćete nešto u vezi Tarawe:

it is very low-lying.

vrlo je ravna.

It's that little green sliver on the horizon,

Taj mali zeleni komadić na obzoru,

which makes them very nervous

čini ih vrlo nervoznima

about rising oceans.

zbog podizanja oceana.

This is big trouble for these guys.

Za njih je to velika nevolja.

They've got no points of land more than about six feet above sea level.

Niti jedna točka na otoku nije viša od 2 metra nadmorske visine.

And also, as an increase in extreme

I tako zbog češćih ekstremnih

weather events due to climate change,

vremenskih uvjeta uslijed promjene klime,

they're expecting more waves

očekuju više valova

to come in over the fringing reef,

preko ruba grebena,

which will contaminate their fresh water supply.

koji će zagaditi njihove zalihe čiste vode.

I had a meeting with the president there,

Susrela sam se s tamošnjim predsjednikom,

who told me about his

koji mi je pričao

exit strategy for his country.

o strategiji spasa za njegovu zemlju.

He expects that within the next 50 years,

Očekuje kako će se u sljedećih 50 godina,

the 100,000 people that live there

sto tisuća ljudi koji tu žive

will have to relocate to

morati preseliti na

New Zealand or Australia.

Novi Zeland ili Australiju.

And that made me think about how would I feel

I to mi je dalo za misliti kako bih se osjećala

if Britain was going to disappear under the waves;

kada bi Britanija nestala pod valovima.

if the places where I'd been born

Kada bi mjesta gdje sam rođena

and gone to school

i gdje sam išla u školu

and got married,

i udala se,

if all those places were just going to disappear forever.

kada bi sva ta mjesta jednostavno nestala zauvijek,

How, literally, ungrounded

kako bi se, doslovno, osjećala

that would make me feel.

neuzemljeno.

Very shortly, I'll be setting out to try and get to Australia,

Vrlo brzo, otplovit ću i pokušati doći do Australije.

and if I'm successful, I'll be the first woman ever to row solo

I ako uspijem, bit ću prva žena koja je sama preveslala

all the way across the Pacific.

cijeli Pacifik.

And I try to use this to bring awareness to these environmental issues,

Pokušavam to iskoristiti da podignem svijest o problemima zaštite okoliša,

to bring a human face to the ocean.

dovesti ljudsko lice na ocean.

If the Atlantic was about my inner journey,

Ako je Atlantik bio moje unutarnje putovanje,

discovering my own capabilities,

otkrivanje mojih vlastitih mogućnosti,

maybe the Pacific has been about my outer journey,

možda je Pacifik moje vanjsko putovanje,

figuring out how I can use

smišljanje kako mogu iskoristiti

my interesting career choice

moj zanimljiv odabir karijere

to be of service to the world,

kako bih služila svijetu,

and to take some of those things that I've learned out there

i kako bih neke stvari koje sam tamo naučila

and apply them to the situation

primijenila u situaciji

that humankind now finds itself in.

u kojoj se čovječanstvo sada nalazi.

I think there are probably three key points here.

Mislim da ovdje postoje tri ključne točke.

The first one is about

Prva je o

the stories that we tell ourselves.

pričama koje sami sebi pričamo.

For so long, I told myself

Tako sam si dugo govorila

that I couldn't have an adventure

kako ne mogu doživjeti pustolovinu

because I wasn't six foot tall

jer nisam 2 metra visoka

and athletic and bearded.

ni atletske građe, a nemam ni bradu.

And then that story changed.

I tada, priča se promijenila.

I found out that people had rowed across oceans.

Otkrila sam kako su ljudi veslali preko oceana.

I even met one of them and she was just about my size.

Čak sam i susrela jednu veslačicu, i bila je otprilike moje veličine.

So even though I didn't grow any taller,

Tako, premda nisam ništa narasla,

I didn't sprout a beard,

nije mi narasla bradu,

something had changed: My interior dialogue had changed.

nešto se promijenilo, moj unutarnji razgovor se promijenio.

At the moment, the story that we collectively tell ourselves

U ovom trenutku, priča koju si svi pričamo

is that we need all this stuff,

jest kako nam trebaju sve te stvari,

that we need oil.

da nam treba nafta.

But what about if we just change that story?

No što ako jednostavno promijenimo tu priču?

We do have alternatives,

Imamo opcije,

and we have the power of free will

imamo snagu slobodne volje

to choose those alternatives, those sustainable ones,

odabrati one opcije, one samoodržive

to create a greener future.

kako bismo stvorili zeleniju budućnost.

The second point is about

Druga točka je o

the accumulation of tiny actions.

gomilanju malih djela.

We might think that anything that we do as an individual

Mogli bismo pomisliti kako je sve što pojedinac čini

is just a drop in the ocean, that it can't really make a difference.

samo kap u moru, jer ne može zapravo napraviti neku razliku.

But it does. Generally, we haven't

No može se. Općenito, nismo se

got ourselves into this mess through big disasters.

doveli u ovaj nered velikim katastrofama.

Yes, there have been the Exxon Valdezes

Da, bilo je izlijevanje nafte tankera Exxon Valdezs

and the Chernobyls,

i Černobila,

but mostly it's been an accumulation

no većinom je to bilo gomilanje

of bad decisions

pogrešnih odluka

by billions of individuals,

milijardi pojedinaca

day after day and year after year.

iz dana u dan, iz godine u godinu.

And, by the same token, we can turn that tide.

I, na isti način, možemo okrenuti taj tijek

We can start making better,

Možemo početi donositi bolje,

wiser, more sustainable decisions.

mudrije, više održive odluke.

And when we do that, we're not just one person.

I kada to činimo, nismo samo jedna osoba.

Anything that we do spreads ripples.

Sve što radimo, širi se.

Other people will see if you're in the supermarket line

Drugi će ljudi vidjeti, ako ste u redu u trgovini

and you pull out your

i izvadite svoju

reusable grocery bag.

vrećicu za višekratnu uporabu.

Maybe if we all start doing this,

Možda, ako svi počnemo to raditi,

we can make it socially unacceptable

možemo učiniti društveno neprihvatljivim

to say yes to plastic in the checkout line.

uporabu plastike u redovima za kupovinu.

That's just one example.

To je samo jedan primjer.

This is a world-wide community.

Ovo je zajednica svjetskih razmjera.

The other point:

Druga točka:

It's about taking responsibility.

Preuzimanje odgovornosti.

For so much of my life,

Toliki dio života,

I wanted something else to make me happy.

htjela sam nešto što bi me učinilo sretnom.

I thought if I had the right house or the right car

Mislila sam, ako imam pravu kuću, pravi auto,

or the right man in my life,

i pravog čovjeka u svom životu,

then I could be happy.

onda ću biti sretna,

But when I wrote that obituary exercise,

no kada sam napravila onu vježbu s osmrtnicom,

I actually grew up a little bit in that moment

zapravo sam malo odrasla u tom trenu

and realized that I needed to create my own future.

i shvatila kako trebam sama stvarati svoju vlastitu budućnost.

I couldn't just wait passively

Nisam mogla samo pasivno čekati

for happiness to come and find me.

da sreća dođe i pronađe me.

And I suppose I'm a selfish environmentalist.

I pretpostavljam kako sam sebični "zeleni".

I plan on being around for a long time,

Planiram živjeti još dugo vremena,

and when I'm 90 years old,

i kada mi bude 90,

I want to be happy and healthy.

želim biti sretna i zdrava.

And it's very difficult to be happy

A vrlo je teško biti sretan

on a planet that's racked

na planetu koji je uništen

with famine and drought.

glađu i oskudicom.

It's very difficult to be healthy on a planet

Vrlo je teško biti zdrav na planetu

where we've poisoned the earth

gdje smo otrovali tlo

and the sea and the air.

i more i zrak.

So, shortly, I'm going to be

Pa, ukratko, pokrenut ću

launching a new initiative

novu inicijativu

called Eco-Heroes.

zvanu Eko-heroji.

And the idea here is that

Ideja je da

all our Eco-Heroes will log at least one green deed every day.

svi naši eko-heroji zabilježe barem jedno zeleno djelo svaki dan.

It's meant to be a bit of a game.

Bit će to poput igre.

We're going to make an iPhone app out of it.

Napravit ćemo iPhone aplikaciju za to.

We just want to try and create that awareness

Samo želimo probati stvoriti svijest

because, sure, changing a light bulb isn't going to change the world,

jer, sigurno, promjena žarulje neće promijeniti svijet,

but that attitude,

no taj stav,

that awareness that leads you to change the light bulb

ta svijest koja vas vodi da promijenimo žarulju

or take your reusable coffee mug,

ili koristitimo šalicu za kavu koja se može ponovno upotrijebiti,

that is what could change the world.

to bi moglo promijeniti svijet.

I really believe that we stand

Doista vjerujem kako se nalazimo

at a very important point in history.

na vrlo važnoj prekretnici u povijesti.

We have a choice. We've been blessed,

Imamo izbor. Blagoslovljeni smo,

or cursed, with free will.

ili prokleti, sa slobodnom voljom.

We can choose a greener future,

Možemo odabrati zeleniju budućnost.

and we can get there

I možemo do toga doći

if we all pull together to take it one stroke at a time.

ako svi povučemo, jedan po jedan zaveslaj.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)