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

Transcriber: TED Translators Admin Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Amanda Zhu

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

（影片）塞弗恩．庫里斯－蘇祖克： 我在此為將來的所有世代發言。

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

我在這裡代表全世界 挨餓的兒童發言，

whose cries go unheard.

因為沒有人聽見他們的呼喊。

I'm here to speak for the countless animals

我在這裡為全球各地

dying across this planet

無數因為無家可歸而死亡的動物發言，

because they have nowhere left to go.

（影片）塞： 現在我害怕去外面曬太陽，

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

because of the holes in our ozone.

因為臭氧層有破洞。

I'm afraid to breathe the air,

我害怕呼吸空氣，

因為我不知道空氣中 有什麼化學物質。

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

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

我以前會和我父親 在我的家鄉溫哥華釣魚，

until just a few years ago,

直到幾年前，

we found the fish full of cancers.

我們發現那裡的魚類滿是癌症。

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

塞：一個世代前，我才十二歲。

In 1992, I had five minutes

1992 年，我在里約熱內盧 舉辦的聯合國地球高峰會

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

有五分鐘的發言時間。

My friends and I had started an environmental club,

我和一群朋友成立了一個環境社團，

and we'd traveled to this huge international meeting

我們來到這場關於環境和發展的

about environment and development

大型國際會議，

to tell the adults they had to change their ways.

目的是要告訴成年人， 他們必須要改變他們做事的方法。

That same year 1,700 scientists

同年，一千七百位科學家

would issue the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity

發佈《全球科學家對人類的警告》

to tell us that humans and the natural world

來告訴我們，人類發展的道路

were on a collision course.

終將與大自然迎面撞上。

Much like Greta Thunberg and her peers today,

就像現在的格蕾塔通貝里 和她的同儕所主張的一樣，

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

我們相信決策者應該根據 科學和事實來採取行動。

And the facts were telling us

而事實告訴我們，

that we were headed for ecological collapse.

我們正朝向生態系的瓦解邁進。

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

（影片）塞： 這一切都發生在我們眼前，

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

但我們的表現卻好像我們有的是時間、

and all the solutions.

有的是解決方案。

塞：當時，已經知道有氣候變遷，

SCS: Back then, climate change had been identified,

but we had yet to really feel it.

但我們還沒有真正感覺到它。

Today, almost 30 years later,

現今，將近三十年後，

climate change is no longer a prediction.

氣候變遷已經不再是一項預測。

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

它已經來了，

它發生的速度比專家預測的還要快。

We did not stop it.

我們沒有阻止它。

Today the work that we must do is about mitigation,

現今，我們必須要 做的工作是緩和它的衝擊、

trying to limit how bad it gets.

限制它的惡化程度。

In 2015, in Paris, the world agreed

2015 年，在巴黎，

全世界同意將地球的暖化

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

限制為攝氏 1.5 度，

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

因為超過這個數字， 人命就會受到太大的威脅。

To meet this,

為了達成這個目標，我們必須

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

在接下來十年將全球排放量減半。

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

（影片）塞：我只是個孩子， 我沒有解決的辦法，

but I want you to realize neither do you.

但我希望大家能知道，你們也沒有。

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

塞：任何革命，在前線的總是年輕人。

And it's young people who ask me,

也是年輕人在問我：

"What did your speech actually do?

「你的演說有什麼用？

Why didn't the delegates actually listen?"

為什麼各國代表不肯聽？」

Well, looking back,

現在回頭看，

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

我認為大會上的代表其實有在聽，

not just to me,

不只是我，也聽見了

but to the thousands of voices calling for change.

數以千計呼籲改變的聲音。

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

如果去看看在那次里約會議後 所發布的文件，

they are radical.

內容十分積極，

They include the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change

其中包括《聯合國氣候變遷綱要公約》，

其目的是要穩定

set up to stabilize

greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere

大氣中的溫室氣體濃度，

and prevent dangerous interference with the climate system.

並預防氣候系統受到擾亂的危險性。

Twenty-three years before the Paris Agreement,

《巴黎協定》前的 23 年，

154 countries signed this legally binding international agreement.

一百五十四個國家簽署了

這份有法律約束力的國際協定。

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

（影片）塞：我只是個孩子， 但我知道我們全都在同一條船上，

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

全世界應該要團結起來 朝向同一個目標邁進。

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

塞：所以，世界為什麼不採取行動？

Instead, governments focused on growing the economy,

各國政府反而把焦點放在經濟成長、

on business interests

商業利益，

and of course, winning the next election.

當然，還有贏得下次選舉。

It shows a crisis in human governance,

這顯示出人類治理上的危機：

where our political systems make it impossible

我們的政治體制不可能會為了人民

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

和未來世代的長期利益而採取行動。

Today it's 2020.

今年是 2020 年。

Again we have the momentum.

我們又有了動力。

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

我們有巴黎協定來限制地球的暖化。

We have youth and social justice demands.

我們有年輕人和社會正義的要求。

We have calls for divestment.

我們有化石燃料撤資的呼籲。

We have calls for climate emergencies.

我們有氣候危機的警告。

We have the science, we have the solutions

我們有科學，我們有解決方案，

and we all are experiencing climate change.

且我們都正在受氣候變遷之苦。

We are at a moment parallel to Rio.

現在這個時刻就如同里約的那一刻。

Now is the time to take action.

現在該是立刻採取行動的時候了。

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

（影片）塞： 若你們不知道如何修好它，

就別再破壞它。

please stop breaking it.

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

塞：我們要如何確保 這次我們會說到做到？

History has shown us that in moments of crisis,

歷史告訴我們，

在危機時，

society can truly transform.

社會能夠真正產生轉變。

We've seen this in times of war,

我們曾經在戰時、經濟崩潰時、

in times of economic collapse and in times of disease.

疾病流行時都見過這個現象，

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

今天，我們活在新冠病毒的時代。

We've seen governments and institutions across all sectors

我們已經見到政府和所有相關機構

working quickly, working together.

快速反應，團結合作。

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

人類常認為自己能掌控一切，

but we have been reminded today

但現今，這個危機提醒了我們：

that the laws of nature are the true bottom line.

大自然的法則才是最重要的、

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

科學和專門知識

對於我們的生存具有關鍵的重要性。

COVID-19 has shone a light on inequity

新冠病毒讓我們注意到不平等，

and revealed our prejudiced infrastructures.

揭露出我們的基礎架構上就有偏見。

It is a warning.

這是個警告。

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

如果我們不聽，如果我們不改變，

next time could be far worse.

下次可能會更慘烈許多。

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

（影片）塞：我父親總是說

「定義你的是你的行為， 不是你說的話。

Well, what you do makes me cry at night.

你們的行為讓我在夜裡哭泣。

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

你們成人說你們愛我們， 但我要挑戰你們，

please, make your actions reflect your words.

拜託，說到的就要做到。

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

塞：那句話總結了 我在里約演說的內容。

Please, make your actions reflect your words.

拜託，說到的就要做到。

今天，我是個母親，

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

我有兩個小兒子。

Parents, I'm speaking to you.

做父母親的人，這話是在對你們說的：

Our generation is determining the lives of our children.

我們這個世代怎麼做 決定我們孩子未來的生活。

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

我們有十年的時間來展現我們的作為。

We have 10 years to cut our emissions by half.

我們有十年的時間把排放減半。

The way to truly love our children

真正愛孩子的方式

is to make our actions reflect our words.

就是說到就要做到。

Now it's time to get to work.

該上工了。

Thank you.

謝謝。