The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg

Translator: Akinori Oyama Reviewer: Peter van de Ven

翻译人员: Yongjiang Li 校对人员: Lipeng Chen

When I was about eight years old,

在我大概八岁的时候，

I first heard about something called climate change or global warming.

我第一次听说 气候变化或全球变暖。

Apparently, that was something humans had created by our way of living.

显然，这是人类的生活方式 产生的后果。

I was told to turn off the lights to save energy

我被告知要关灯以节约能源，

and to recycle paper to save resources.

回收纸张以节省资源。

I remember thinking that it was very strange

我记得我那时觉得很奇怪

that humans, who are an animal species among others,

人类，作为动物的一种，

could be capable of changing the Earth's climate.

能够改变地球的气候。

Because if we were, and if it was really happening,

因为如果是我们做的， 如果真的发生了，

we wouldn't be talking about anything else.

我们不就不该谈论其他的事情了。

As soon as you'd turn on the TV, everything would be about that.

一打开电视， 应该都是关于气候的事。

Headlines, radio, newspapers,

头条新闻，广播，报纸，

you would never read or hear about anything else,

你不会读到或听到其他任何东西，

as if there was a world war going on.

仿佛是处在一场世界大战中。

But no one ever talked about it.

但是没有人谈论这些。

If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence,

如果燃烧化石燃料后果如此严重， 会威胁到我们的生存，

how could we just continue like before?

我们怎么还能像以前一样？

Why were there no restrictions?

为什么没有限制？

Why wasn't it made illegal?

为什么将其不列为非法的？

To me, that did not add up.

对我来说，那并不合理。

It was too unreal.

那太不真实了。

So when I was 11, I became ill.

当我11岁时，我生病了。

I fell into depression,

我陷入了抑郁，

I stopped talking,

我不想说话，

and I stopped eating.

我不想吃饭，

In two months, I lost about 10 kilos of weight.

在两个月内，我掉了 大约10公斤的体重。

Later on, I was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome,

后来，我被诊断出患有 亚斯伯格症候群，

OCD and selective mutism.

强迫症和选择性缄默症。

That basically means I only speak when I think it's necessary -

这基本上意味着 我只在我认为有必要时说话——

now is one of those moments.

现在就是其中一刻。

(Applause)

（掌声）

For those of us who are on the spectrum,

对于我们这些孤独症患者，

almost everything is black or white.

几乎所有东西都是非黑即白的。

We aren't very good at lying,

我们不善于说谎，

and we usually don't enjoy participating in this social game

而且我们通常不喜欢 参加这样的社交活动，

that the rest of you seem so fond of.

不过你们似乎都很喜欢。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones,

我想在很多方面， 我们自闭的人才是正常的，

and the rest of the people are pretty strange,

而其他人都很奇怪，

(Laughter)

（笑声）

especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis,

特别是在可持续发展危机方面，

where everyone keeps saying climate change is an existential threat

每个人都在说气候变化是一种 生存威胁，

and the most important issue of all,

是当务之急的问题，

and yet they just carry on like before.

然而他们依然如故。

I don't understand that,

我不明白为什么那样，

because if the emissions have to stop,

因为如果必须停止排放，

then we must stop the emissions.

我们就该停止排放。

To me that is black or white.

对我来说那就是非黑即白的事。

There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.

在生存方面没有灰色地带。

Either we go on as a civilization or we don't.

要么我们的文明得以延续， 要么不复存在。

We have to change.

我们必须改变。

Rich countries like Sweden need to start reducing emissions

像瑞典这样的富裕国家 需要开始减少排放，

by at least 15 percent every year.

每年至少减少15％。

And that is so that we can stay below a two-degree warming target.

这样我们可以将温度增长控制在 2度以内。

Yet, as the IPCC have recently demonstrated,

然而，正如IPCC（政府间气候变化 专门委员会）最近发布的那样，

aiming instead for 1.5 degrees Celsius

如果将温度增长控制在 1.5摄氏度以内，

would significantly reduce the climate impacts.

则会大大减少气候影响。

But we can only imagine what that means for reducing emissions.

但我们只能想象 这对减排意味着什么。

You would think the media and every one of our leaders

你会以为媒体， 还有每一位领导人

would be talking about nothing else,

该不再谈论别的，

but they never even mention it.

但他们甚至从未提过。

Nor does anyone ever mention

也没有人提过

the greenhouse gases already locked in the system.

温室气体已经被锁在大气中。

Nor that air pollution is hiding a warming

也不提空气污染隐含了变暖，

so that when we stop burning fossil fuels,

即便我们停止燃烧化石燃料，

we already have an extra level of warming

我们也会遭遇额外的变暖，

perhaps as high as 0.5 to 1.1 degrees Celsius.

大约为0.5至1.1摄氏度。

Furthermore does hardly anyone speak about the fact

此外，几乎没有人谈论

that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction,

我们正处于第六次大规模灭绝之中，

with up to 200 species going extinct every single day,

每天有多达200个物种灭绝。

that the extinction rate today

今天的灭绝率

is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher

比正常情况

高出1000甚至10000倍。

than what is seen as normal.

Nor does hardly anyone ever speak about the aspect of equity or climate justice,

几乎没有人谈论 气候方面的公平和正义，

clearly stated everywhere in the Paris Agreement,

而这些在《巴黎协定》中 都有明确说明，

which is absolutely necessary to make it work on a global scale.

使其在全球范围内发挥作用 是绝对必要的。

That means that rich countries

那意味着富裕的国家，

need to get down to zero emissions within 6 to 12 years,

需要在6至12年内从今天的排放量

with today's emission speed.

降至零排放。

And that is so that people in poorer countries

这样贫穷国家的人们

can have a chance to heighten their standard of living

才有机会提高他们的生活水平，

by building some of the infrastructure that we have already built,

通过建造一些我们已经构建的 基础设施，

such as roads, schools, hospitals,

如道路，学校，医院，

clean drinking water, electricity, and so on.

干净的饮用水，电，等等。

Because how can we expect countries like India or Nigeria

因为我们怎么可以去期待 印度或尼日利亚之类的国家

to care about the climate crisis

去关心气候危机，

if we who already have everything don't care even a second about it

若已经拥有一切的我们 对此毫不关心，

or our actual commitments to the Paris Agreement?

也不对《巴黎协定》付诸行动？

So, why are we not reducing our emissions?

那么，为什么我们不减少排放？

Why are they in fact still increasing?

为什么排放实际上还在增加？

Are we knowingly causing a mass extinction?

我们是否故意造成大规模灭绝？

Are we evil?

我们是邪恶的吗？

No, of course not.

不，当然不。

People keep doing what they do

人们继续做他们做的事，

because the vast majority doesn't have a clue

因为绝大多数人都不知道

about the actual consequences of our everyday life,

我们日常生活的实际后果，

and they don't know that rapid change is required.

他们不知道需要尽快改变。

We all think we know, and we all think everybody knows,

我们都以为我们知道， 我们都以为每个人都知道，

but we don't.

但我们没有。

Because how could we?

因为我们怎么会呢？

If there really was a crisis,

如果确实存在危机，

and if this crisis was caused by our emissions,

如果这种危机是由 我们的排放造成的，

you would at least see some signs.

你至少该看到一些迹象。

Not just flooded cities, tens of thousands of dead people,

不只是城市被水淹没， 成千上万的人丧生，

and whole nations leveled to piles of torn down buildings.

整个国家一片废墟。

You would see some restrictions.

你该会看到一些限制。

But no.

但没有。

And no one talks about it.

没有人谈论它。

There are no emergency meetings, no headlines, no breaking news.

没有紧急会议，没有头条新闻， 没有突发新闻。

No one is acting as if we were in a crisis.

没有人表现得好像 我们处于危机之中。

Even most climate scientists or green politicians

甚至大多数气候科学家和 绿色政治家

keep on flying around the world, eating meat and dairy.

继续在飞越世界各地， 吃肉和乳制品。

If I live to be 100, I will be alive in the year 2103.

如果我能活到100岁， 我将活到2103年。

When you think about the future today, you don't think beyond the year 2050.

你们今天想未来时， 往往想不到2050年以后。

By then, I will, in the best case, not even have lived half of my life.

但到那时，在最好的情况下， 我还没有度过生命的一半。

What happens next?

然后呢？

The year 2078, I will celebrate my 75th birthday.

2078年，我将庆祝我75岁的生日。

If I have children or grandchildren, maybe they will spend that day with me.

如果我有孩子或孙子孙女， 也许他们会和我一起度过那一天。

Maybe they will ask me about you,

也许他们会问我关于你们的事，

the people who were around, back in 2018.

2018年的人们。

Maybe they will ask why you didn't do anything

也许他们会问为什么 你们什么都不做，

while there still was time to act.

即使还有时间采取行动。

What we do or don't do right now will affect my entire life

我们现在做或不做什么 会影响我的一生

and the lives of my children and grandchildren.

以及我的孩子和孙子孙女的生活。

What we do or don't do right now,

无论我们现在做或不做什么，

me and my generation can't undo in the future.

我和我这一代人在未来都无法弥补。

So when school started in August of this year,

所以在今年8月份开学时，

I decided that this was enough.

我觉得该是时候了。

I set myself down on the ground outside the Swedish parliament.

我把自己置于瑞典议会外的场地上。

I school striked for the climate.

我为气候罢课。

Some people say that I should be in school instead.

有人说我应该去上学。

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist

有人说我应该学习成为气候科学家，

so that I can "solve the climate crisis."

这样我就可以“解决气候危机”。

But the climate crisis has already been solved.

但气候危机已经解决了。

We already have all the facts and solutions.

我们已经掌握了 所有的事实和解决方案。

All we have to do is to wake up and change.

我们所要做的是觉醒并改变。

And why should I be studying for a future that soon will be no more

为什么我要为一个 很快不复存在的未来学习呢？

when no one is doing anything whatsoever to save that future?

现在没有人为挽救未来做任何事。

And what is the point of learning facts in the school system

在教育系统中学习还有什么意义呢，

when the most important facts

如果教育系统内

given by the finest science of that same school system

最优秀的科学所提供事实

clearly means nothing to our politicians and our society.

都明显对我们的政治家和社会毫无影响。

Some people say that Sweden is just a small country,

有人说瑞典只是一个小国，

and that it doesn't matter what we do,

我们做什么并不重要。

but I think that if a few children can get headlines all over the world

但我想如果有几个孩子 可以登上全世界的头条新闻，

just by not coming to school for a few weeks,

只是罢课几周，

imagine what we could all do together if you wanted to.

想象一下， 如果你们愿意，我们可以一起。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Now we're almost at the end of my talk,

现在我的演讲快结束了，

and this is where people usually start talking about hope,

一般这时候人们开始畅想希望，

solar panels, wind power, circular economy, and so on,

太阳能电池板，风力发电， 循环经济等等，

but I'm not going to do that.

但我不打算这样做。

We've had 30 years of pep-talking and selling positive ideas.

30年来，我们一直在讲 鼓舞士气的话，

And I'm sorry, but it doesn't work.

但我很抱歉那些没起作用。

Because if it would have,

因为如果有用，

the emissions would have gone down by now.

排放量现在应该已经下降了。

They haven't.

但它们没有。

And yes, we do need hope,

是的，我们确实需要希望，

of course we do.

当然，我们需要。

But the one thing we need more than hope is action.

但我们需要的不仅仅是希望 而是行动。

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere.

一旦我们开始行动，希望无处不在。

So instead of looking for hope,

所以与其期待希望，

look for action.

不如期待行动。

Then, and only then, hope will come.

那样，只有那样，希望才会到来。

Today, we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day.

今天，我们每天使用1亿桶石油。

There are no politics to change that.

没有政策可以改变这一点。

There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground.

没有规定将石油封存在地下。

So we can't save the world by playing by the rules,

所以我们不能通过遵守规则 拯救世界，

because the rules have to be changed.

因为规则必须改变。

Everything needs to change --

一切都需要改变——

and it has to start today.

必须从今天开始。

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

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