Why act now? | Kristen Bell + Giant Ant

Transcriber: TED Translators Admin Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs

翻译人员: TED Translators Admin 校对人员: Yanyan Hong

Why act now?

为什么现在要行动起来？

The best time to act was yesterday.

最好的行动时间是昨天，

The second best time is today.

第二好的时间是今天。

Every year that we don't reduce emissions

每年我们不减少排放就意味着

represents another 55 gigatons of greenhouse gases

未来几代人将不得不从空气中

that future generations will have to scrub out of the air.

清除新出现的 550 亿吨温室气体。

That would cost 8 trillion dollars a year,

每年将花费 8 万亿美元，

almost half the entire US economy today.

几乎相当于今天 整个美国经济的一半。

And that price doesn't include the cost of people forced to move,

而这个代价还不包括 人们被迫迁移、

the natural world transformed and lives lost.

自然世界改变和生命损失的成本。

It's much cheaper to develop new technologies

开发不排放二氧化碳的新技术

that don't emit carbon dioxide

比捕获我们已经排放的

than to capture carbon dioxide that we've already emitted.

二氧化碳要便宜得多。

Every ton of carbon dioxide we emit now imposes a burden on us and the planet,

我们现在排放的每一吨二氧化碳

都给我们和地球带来了负担。

but also a debt that would have to be paid by our children

但这也是我们的子孙后代

and untold generations to come.

必须偿还的债务。

The sooner we start fixing this, the easier it'll be.

这个问题我们越早开始解决 就越容易。

So do what you can where you can.

所以，尽你所能在力所能及的地方，

Vote, change your diet and your commute,

去投票，改变你的饮食和通勤，

organize, plant trees, advocate for ideas,

组织，种树，倡导思想，倡导科学，

advocate for science

and most importantly, advocate for action today.

最重要的是，倡导今天就行动起来。

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