Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED

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翻译人员: Maria Zhang 校对人员: Cissy Yun

我在澳大利亚 热带昆士兰州长大的，

从小我就从马桶里掏青蛙，

躲避悬挂在天花板上的蛇。

I grew up in Australia's Tropical North Queensland,

还会帮助打湿 在屋外退潮时搁浅的老海龟。

fishing frogs from the toilet

and dodging snakes that hung from the ceiling.

我在室外呆的时间比在室内要多，

Wetting down old sea turtles stranded at low tide outside our house.

一直珍惜这大自然的奇观。

11岁时，我不允许看恐怖电影，

I spent more time outside than in,

所以我转而看纪录片。

delighting in the wonders of nature.

“海豚湾”， “食品公司” “难以忽视的真相”。

By age 11, I wasn't allowed to watch horror films,

so I turned to documentaries instead.

我第一次心碎

"The Cove," "Food, Inc," "An Inconvenient Truth."

就是我坐在电脑屏幕前，

凝视着将海岸线变红的 大规模海豚狩猎。

The first time I experienced heartbreak

was when I sat glued to my computer screen,

盯着百万年历史的森林 被推土机推倒来帮助生产巨无霸汉堡，

staring at mass dolphin hunts that turned the shoreline red.

看着阿尔·戈尔的投影展示，

Staring as million-year-old forests were bulldozed to produce Big Macs,

显示人类吞噬地球的速度有多快。

还有人类伪装得多好。

staring as Al Gore projected graphs

that showed how quickly we were devouring the Earth.

我第二次心碎 就是2019年11月，

And how good we were at pretending otherwise.

我看着我的国家被火焰吞噬。

The second time I experienced heartbreak was in November of 2019,

当10亿只动物被地狱野火焚毁。

as I watched my country go up in flames.

当朋友试图挽救他家，

As one billion animals were incinerated by the inferno.

站在锡屋顶上，

用软水管喷水， 直到烟和余烬黏在衣服上。

As friends tried to rescue their homes,

poised on tin roofs,

armed with hoses until the smoke and embers clung to their clothes.

我感到绝望。

悲伤。

挫折。

愤怒。

I felt despair.

那堵火墙

Grief.

比我以前看到过得 更高，更凶猛，

Frustration.

Fury.

And staring at that wall of fire

我感到无助，

弱小，

higher and more ferocious than any I'd seen before,

无力阻止火焰蔓延，

无力保护我爱的地方。

I felt helpless,

small,

澳大利亚漆黑的夏天刚过， 加州就发生火灾

powerless to stop the flames,

powerless to protect the place I love.

也是在夏天来临之际，

还有雅加达的洪水， 导致10万人流离失所。

Australia's black summer was soon followed by the firestorm in California

美国东海岸出现了更猛烈的飓风，

as their summer rolled around,

as well as flooding in Jakarta that displaced 100,000 people.

而《圣经》中出现的蝗灾，

也影响了东非数百万人的粮食供应。

More violent hurricanes along the east coast of America

and biblical plagues of locusts that threaten the food supply

这种情况不是当代年轻人造成的。

for millions of people in East Africa.

我们继承了它。

然而，我们被告知 我们是最后一代

Young people today have not created this reality.

有机会拯救人类命运的人。

We've inherited it.

难怪心理健康问题会流行起来。

Yet we're told where the last generation

with a chance to save the fate of humanity.

生态焦虑正在上升

Is it any wonder that there is an epidemic of mental health problems?

年轻人似乎最受影响。

英国有一2019年的研究表明

Eco-anxiety is on the rise

18到24岁的人中 有70%感到生态焦虑，

and young people seem to be some of the worst affected.

Research from 2019 showed that in the UK,

对于气候变化 感到无助，悲伤，恐慌，失眠，

70 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds were feeling eco-anxious,

甚至内疚。

feeling helpless, grief, panic, insomnia,

环境灾难是我们一生中 最大的心理健康问题，

even guilt around climate change.

在人类对抗自然时， 也间接伤害了年轻人的精神。

Environmental disaster is the biggest mental health issue of our lifetimes

在我自己的组织，Force of Nature,

and in our war against nature young minds are the collateral damage.

我们在全球范围内 目睹了同样的情况。

我们一直在与50多个国家的学生交谈，

At my own organization, Force of Nature,

从特拉维夫到雅加达，

we've witnessed the same on a global scale.

纽约到马那瓜。

他们都分享了这种生存恐惧

We've been talking to students in over 50 countries

让他们彻夜难眠。

from Tel Aviv through Jakarta,

New York to Managua.

恐惧并非只因为 他们经历着各种坏消息的轮番轰炸，

All of them have shared this existential dread

而因为他们觉得成年人，

that keeps them up at night.

Dread not only fueled by doom scrolling,

特别是掌权的成年人，不在乎。

but by the belief that adults,

我第一次发现纪录片时，

especially adults in power, do not care.

我决定世界是由 自私和贪婪的人经营的，

社会其他人不在乎。

When I first discovered documentaries,

人类就地球上的瘟疫。

I decided the world was run by people who were selfish and greedy,

过去十年来， 我一直在游说企业，

that the rest of society didn't care.

That we humans were a plague on our own planet.

政策和民间社会的决策者，

与学生

I've since spent the past 10 years lobbying decision makers across business,

和董事会的首席执行官合作，

我现在告诉你们 我之前对世界暗淡的前景，

policy and civil society,

working with students in the classroom

虽然在某些方面是对的，

and chief executives in the boardroom,

但在更多方面非常非常错。

and I can tell you that my bleak outlook,

想象你自己是 一家大型跨国公司的高管。

while in some ways right,

was in more ways very, very wrong.

在你攀登企业阶梯的25年里，

Picture yourself as a senior executive at a big multinational.

有人告诉你的工作是赚钱

和维持现状，

In the 25 years you've been climbing that corporate ladder,

为股东提供价值，

you've been told your job is to make money

避免可能让你失去工作的风险。

and maintain the status quo,

to deliver value to shareholders,

你会做废品回收。

你会在领英上 转发气候变化文章。

to avoid the kind of risks that could cost you your job.

两年前，你甚至在看了 一部关于大规模农业的纪录片后

You recycle.

就成为素食主义者。

You share climate change articles on LinkedIn.

然而，当你一天结束时回家时，

You even went vegetarian two years ago,

after watching a documentary on mass farming.

你觉得你的孩子把你看成了问题。

Yet when you come home at the end of the day,

他们希望你是气候变化抗议者

站在玻璃塔前，

you get the sense that your kids see you as the problem.

而不是坐在大楼里的人。

They wish you were the climate change protester

当我第一次开始与当权者合作时，

gluing themselves to the glass tower,

我惊讶地发现

not the person sat inside the building.

他们经常觉得自己是最无力的，

大多数领导者都在进行心理训练

When I first started working with people in power,

I was surprised to realize

以摆脱这些不舒服的感觉。

that they often felt the least powerful of all,

今天的年轻人陷入绝望

and most of these leaders perform mental gymnastics

to get away from those uncomfortable feelings.

而我们生活中的成年人

Young people today are falling into despair

通过否认来理解这种状况。

当我让领导人描述 他们设想的未来时，

while the adults in our lives are making sense of the situation

他们描述的是一个科技乌托邦。

through denial.

会飞的汽车横行于 一个致命疾病已经被根除的世界里。

When I ask leaders to describe the future they envision,

it's something of a techno utopia.

而当我在教室里 问8和9岁小孩一样的问题，

Flying cars in a world where deadly diseases are eradicated.

他们描述的未来 是个反乌托邦大片。

Yet when I asked eight and nine-year-olds in the classroom the same question,

空超市货架。

the future they describe is a dystopian blockbuster.

水下城市。

那种没人愿意

Empty supermarket shelves.

是他们长大后找到的世界。

Cities underwater.

你可能会在否认中找到安逸。

The kind of place no one wants to find waiting for them

在过度消费的文化中 梦游、麻醉自己，

when they grow up.

You might find comfort in denial.

尽管科学显示 我们正冲向悬崖。

Numbing yourself to our hyper-consumptive culture, sleepwalking,

你可能会感到绝望， 就像我这一代中的许多人一样。

even though the science tells us that we're hurtling toward the cliff.

虽然焦虑，沮丧，和愤怒，

You might feel despair, like so many of my generation.

这些感觉会觉醒我们看到问题，

Because while feelings of anxiety, frustration, anger,

但我们肩上若扛着拯救世界的使命， 它们也会压垮我们。

can wake us up to the issues,

they can crush us if we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders.

绝望和否认都不会帮助任何人。

它们导致我们“停机”，

将自己移除。

Neither despair nor denial help anyone.

否认抹去了我们的责任。

They cause us to shut down,

绝望让我们把所有联系到一起。

to remove ourselves from the picture.

Denial erases our responsibility.

否认的故事有点儿像：

“这不由我的决定， 因为别人会修好。“

Despair lumps us with all of it.

绝望的故事有点儿像。

The story of denial sounds something like,

”这不由我的决定， 因为这问题太大，修不好了。”

"It's not up to me, because someone else will fix it."

你听到相似之处了吗？

The story of despair sounds like,

绝望和否认似乎存在于

"It's not up to me because it's too big to fix."

年代光谱的两个极端，

Do you hear the similarity?

然而，它们来自同一个地方：

Despair and denial might appear to exist on polar ends

我们感到无能为力。

of the generational spectrum,

我们所有人都是这样。

yet they stem from the same place.

我认为，比气候变化威胁更大

How powerless we feel.

是我们面对它的无力感，

All of us.

担心的妈妈和爸爸，

I believe that the threat, even greater than climate change,

谨慎的公司领袖，

紧张的11岁小孩。

is how powerless we feel in the face of it,

我认为，在我们调整心态之前，

concerned moms and dads,

cautious corporate leaders,

我们不会解决这场危机，

anxious 11-year-olds.

And I don't believe we will solve this crisis

也不会抓住它带来的许多机会。

or act on the many opportunities it presents us with

那么，我们如何摆脱绝望，

摆脱否认，转向截然不同的东西？

until we've mobilized mindsets.

So how do we shift out of despair,

“蜘蛛侠”中有句名言：

out of denial, towards something radically different?

“能力越大，责任越大。”

然而，如果情况正好相反怎么办？

There's a quote in "Spider-Man":

"With great power comes great responsibility."

如果真相是 “责任越大，能力越大”呢？

Yet what if the opposite is true?

这是全世界所有推动者和动摇者

What if it's really "with great responsibility comes great power?"

都认为是真理的。

他们不是天生的领导者。

This is something that all of the world's movers and shakers

他们只是决定让自己负个人责任。

have known to be true.

解决气候变化问题 不是你的责任

They weren't born leaders.

They simply decided to make themselves personally responsible.

因为它超出了你的控制范围

你要负责任的是

Now, solving climate change is not your responsibility

你能控制的东西，

事实上，你可以控制的唯一东西是。

because it's outside of your control.

What you are responsible for

你的心态。

is the thing inside your control,

我们都看过很多故事，

indeed, the only thing that has ever been inside your control.

让我们气馁的故事，

在会议室和教室里 给我们留下深刻印象的故事。

Your mindset.

We all have stories running on repeat,

stories that immobilize us,

”我只是有78亿人中的一员，

stories the world impresses upon us in boardrooms and classrooms alike.

我太小了，无法有所作为。”

“我不够聪明。”

“我没有经验。“

"I'm just one in 7.8 billion people,

”我不是专家。“

”制度太破碎了，

I'm too small to make a difference."

我们的领导人太短视了，

"I'm not smart enough."

我们的社会太被现状束缚了.”

"I don't have the experience."

"I'm not the expert."

"The system is too broken,

这些故事使我们瘫痪。

our leaders too shortsighted,

our society too shackled to the status quo."

重写这些故事是 我们每个人为地球和自己

These stories paralyze us.

能作的最强大的事情。

Rewriting them is the single most powerful thing anyone of us can do

现在问你自己。

for the planet and for ourselves.

哪个故事妨碍了你采取行动？

Now ask yourself.

然后想想你可以做一件事 来挑战那个故事。

Which story gets in the way of you taking action?

Then think of the one thing you could do to challenge that story.

如果你的故事是你不够聪明，

你可以通过你专注于你的技能、

If your story is that you're not smart enough,

才华和天赋来挑战它。

如果你热爱时尚，

you could challenge it by focusing on the skills and talents

我们如何重新想象 我们与服装的关系是否完全循环？

and gifts that you bring to the table.

如果你很爱做饭，

If fashion is your passion,

how do we reimagine our relationship with clothes to be fully circular?

可以思考我们如何阻止 每天有三分之一的食物被浪费？

如果你是一个才华横溢的音乐家，

If you love making food,

how do we stop a third of it from being wasted every single day?

我们如何通过通用语言

传达气候行动的紧迫性？

If you're a talented musician,

how do we communicate the urgency of climate action

如果你的故事是社会统太坏了，

问题太大了，无法修复，

through a universal language?

想象一下你专注于一个问题 会是什么样子。

If your story is that the system is too broken,

the problem is too big to fix,

气候危机是许多相互关联的问题的征兆，

visualize what it would look like for you to focus on a single problem.

从食品浪费到快时尚，

从社会不平等到脱离自然。

The climate crisis is the symptom of many interconnected problems,

每个问题都需要解决方案。

from food waste to fast fashion,

social inequality to how we've divorced ourselves from nature.

你就可以

提供解决方案。

Every problem requires a solution.

当你回顾自己的生活时，

你想看到什么？

A solution delivered by a someone,

是绝望，否认，

like you.

When you look back on your own life,

还是不同的东西？

what do you want to see?

你会是世界问题的旁观者

Will you have chosen despair, denial,

还是来解决问题的实干者？

or something different?

Will you have been a spectator to our planet's problems

你的故事会是什么？

or the person who did something to fix them?

What will your story be?