Make your actions on climate reflect your words | Severn Cullis-Suzuki

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(Video) Severn Cullis-Suzuki: I am here to speak for all generations to come.

我在这里为后代发声。

I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world

我在这里代表世界各地

正挨饿的儿童发言， 因为他们的哭声没有被听到。

whose cries go unheard.

I'm here to speak for the countless animals

我在这里是为在地球上死去的

dying across this planet

无数动物而发言，

因为它们无处可去。

because they have nowhere left to go.

(Video) SCS: I am afraid to go out in the sun now

由于我们臭氧中的空洞，

because of the holes in our ozone.

我现在害怕在阳光下外出。

I'm afraid to breathe the air,

我不敢呼吸空气，

because I don't know what chemicals are in it.

因为我不知道其中包含着什么化学物质。

I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my dad,

我曾经和父亲一起 去我位于温哥华的家乡钓鱼，

until just a few years ago,

直到几年前，

we found the fish full of cancers.

我们发现这种鱼都患上了癌症。

SCS: A generation ago, I was that 12-year-old child.

一代人以前，我就是那个 12 岁的孩子。

In 1992, I had five minutes

1992 年，我有五分钟的时间

to speak to the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

在里约热内卢举行的 联合国地球峰会上发言。

My friends and I had started an environmental club,

我和我的朋友们 成立了一个环境俱乐部，

and we'd traveled to this huge international meeting

我们参加了关于环境与发展的

about environment and development

大型国际会议，

to tell the adults they had to change their ways.

告诉成年人他们必须改变自己的方式。

That same year 1,700 scientists

同年，有 1700 名科学家

would issue the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity

发布了《世界科学家对人类的警告》，

to tell us that humans and the natural world

告诉我们人类与自然界

were on a collision course.

正在碰撞。

Much like Greta Thunberg and her peers today,

就像今天的格蕾塔·桑伯格 （Greta Thunberg）和她的同僚一样，

we believed that decision-makers should be acting on science and facts.

我们认为决策者们

应该根据科学和事实采取行动。

And the facts were telling us

而事实告诉我们，

that we were headed for ecological collapse.

我们正走向生态崩溃。

(Video) SCS: All this is happening before our eyes,

所有这一切都在我们的眼前发生，

and yet we act as if we have all the time we want

但我们的作为让人觉得我们还有

and all the solutions.

大把的时间和所有的解决方案。

SCS: Back then, climate change had been identified,

当时，人们已经认识到了气候变化，

but we had yet to really feel it.

但我们还没有真正感受到它。

Today, almost 30 years later,

在将近 30 年后的今天，

climate change is no longer a prediction.

气候变化已不再是一个预言。

It is here, and it happened far faster than even the experts predicted.

就在当下，它发生的速度甚至比

专家们预测的要快得多。

We did not stop it.

我们没能阻止它。

Today the work that we must do is about mitigation,

今天，我们必须做的工作是去缓解，

trying to limit how bad it gets.

试图抑制它的恶化程度。

In 2015, in Paris, the world agreed

2015 年，在巴黎，世界同意将

to limit the planet's warming to one and a half degrees Celsius,

全球变暖控制在摄氏 1 度半。

as beyond that would pose too great a threat to human life.

超过这个限制 将对人类生命构成更大的威胁。

To meet this,

为了实现这一目标， 我们必须在未来十年内

we will have to cut our global emissions by half in the next 10 years.

将全球排放量减少一半。

(Video) SCS: I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions,

我只是一个孩子， 我没有所有的解决方案，

but I want you to realize neither do you.

但是我知道我希望 您也意识到您也没有解决方案。

SCS: Young people are always at the frontlines of any revolution.

年轻人永远都站在

革命的前线。

And it's young people who ask me,

是年轻人问我，

"What did your speech actually do?

您的演讲实际上改变了什么？

Why didn't the delegates actually listen?"

代表们为什么不听呢？

Well, looking back,

回想起来，我认为会议的代表

I think that the delegates of the conference actually did listen,

确实听了，他们不仅听了我，

not just to me,

but to the thousands of voices calling for change.

还听了成千上万呼吁变革的声音。

If you look at the declarations, the documents that came out of Rio,

如果您看一下里约热内卢的宣言、文件

they are radical.

它们很激进。

They include the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change

其中包括《联合国气候变化框架公约》，

set up to stabilize

旨在稳定大气中温室气体的浓度

greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere

并防止对气候系统的

and prevent dangerous interference with the climate system.

危险干扰。

Twenty-three years before the Paris Agreement,

在《巴黎协定》签署前的 23 年， 有 154 个国家签署了

154 countries signed this legally binding international agreement.

这项具有法律约束力的国际协定。

(Video) SCS: I'm only a child, yet I know we are all in this together

我只是个孩子， 但我知道我们都在一条船上，

and should act as one single world towards one single goal.

应该为实现一个目标而团结一致。

SCS: So, why didn't the world take action?

那么，世界为什么不采取行动？

Instead, governments focused on growing the economy,

取而代之的是， 政府着重于经济增长，

on business interests

商业利益，

and of course, winning the next election.

当然还要赢得下届选举。

It shows a crisis in human governance,

它显示了人类治理的危机，

where our political systems make it impossible

在这种危机中，我们的政治制度

to act in long-term interests for the people and future generations.

使人们无法为人民和

子孙后代谋取长远利益。

Today it's 2020.

现在是 2020 年，我们再次有了动力。

Again we have the momentum.

We have the Paris Agreement to limit the Earth's warming.

我们拥有《巴黎协定》， 以控制地球的变暖。

We have youth and social justice demands.

我们有青年和社会正义的诉求，

We have calls for divestment.

我们呼吁撤资，

We have calls for climate emergencies.

我们呼吁应对气候危机。

We have the science, we have the solutions

我们有科学，我们有解决方案，

and we all are experiencing climate change.

而且我们所有人都在经历气候变化。

We are at a moment parallel to Rio.

我们此时又到了另外一个里约时刻。

Now is the time to take action.

现在是采取行动的时候了。

(Video) SCS: If you don't know how to fix it,

如果您不知道如何解决， 那么就请停止破坏它。

please stop breaking it.

SCS: How do we ensure that this time we act on our words?

我们如何确保这次我们能说到做到？

History has shown us that in moments of crisis,

历史向我们表明，在危机时刻，

society can truly transform.

社会可以真正改变。

We've seen this in times of war,

我们在战争时期已经看到了这一点，

in times of economic collapse and in times of disease.

在经济崩溃和疾病时期。

Today, we live in the time of COVID-19.

今天，我们生活在新冠疫情的时代。

We've seen governments and institutions across all sectors

我们已经看到了 各个领域的政府和机构

working quickly, working together.

迅速响应，共同协作。

Humans like to think that we're in control of everything,

人们乐于认为我们可以控制一切，

but we have been reminded today

但是今天的一切提醒了我们

that the laws of nature are the true bottom line.

自然定律才是真正的底线。

We've been reminded that science and expertise are crucial to our survival.

我们开始意识到科学

和专业知识对我们的生存至关重要。

COVID-19 has shone a light on inequity

新冠疫情揭露了不平等现象，

and revealed our prejudiced infrastructures.

并揭示了我们带有偏见的基础架构。

It is a warning.

这是一个警告，如果我们不听，

If we don't listen, if we don't change,

如果我们不去改变， 下一次可能会更糟。

next time could be far worse.

(Video) SCS: My dad always says, "You are what you do, not what you say."

我父亲总是说， 代表你的是你所为，而非你所言。

Well, what you do makes me cry at night.

好吧，你所做的让我在晚上哭泣。

You grown-ups say you love us, but I challenge you,

你们大人总说爱我们，但我向你们挑战，

please, make your actions reflect your words.

我请求您们言行一致。

SCS: That last sentence summarizes my entire speech at Rio.

最后一句话总结了 我在里约热内卢的全部讲话。

Please, make your actions reflect your words.

我请求各位言行一致。

Today, I'm a mother, I have two little boys.

今天我当了母亲，有了两个小男孩。

Parents, I'm speaking to you.

父母们，我在与你们说话。

Our generation is determining the lives of our children.

我们这一代人 正在决定我们孩子的生活。

We have 10 years where we can still make a difference.

我们有十年的时间仍可以有所作为。

We have 10 years to cut our emissions by half.

我们有十年的时间将排放量减少一半。

The way to truly love our children

真正爱我们孩子的方法

is to make our actions reflect our words.

是言出必行。

Now it's time to get to work.

现在是时候该行动了，谢谢。

Thank you.