How to shift your mindset and choose your future | Tom Rivett-Carnac

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I never thought that I would be giving my TED Talk somewhere like this.
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我從沒想過會在像這樣的地方 發表我的 TED 演講。
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But, like half of humanity,
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不過,就像半數的人類一樣,
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I've spent the last four weeks under lockdown
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由於全球新冠病毒疫情的關係,
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due to the global pandemic created by COVID-19.
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我已經在封鎖狀況下 度過最後四個禮拜。
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I am extremely fortunate that during this time
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這段期間我相當幸運,
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I've been able to come here to these woods near my home in southern England.
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還能夠來到英格蘭南部 我家附近的這片森林。
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These woods have always inspired me,
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這片森林總是能夠給我啟發,
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and as humanity now tries to think about how we can find the inspiration
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而且就像人類如今嘗試去思考
如何找到靈感重新掌控我們的行動,
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to retake control of our actions
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so that terrible things don't come down the road
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如此一來,糟糕的事情就不會
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without us taking action to avert them,
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在無所作為的情況下發生。
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I thought this is a good place for us to talk.
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我認為這是一個好地方, 能讓我們來聊聊這事。
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And I'd like to begin that story six years ago,
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我想要從六年前開始講述這個故事,
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when I had first joined the United Nations.
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那時是我首次加入聯合國。
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Now, I firmly believe that the UN is of unparalleled importance
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我現在堅信聯合國在當今世上
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in the world right now
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具有無可比擬的重要性,
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to promote collaboration and cooperation.
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能夠促進我們協力合作。
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But what they don't tell you when you join
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但是加入時,他們不會告知
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is that this essential work is delivered
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這項不可或缺的合作行動
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mainly in the form of extremely boring meetings --
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主要是以極為無聊的會議形式進行。
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extremely long, boring meetings.
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極為冗長、無趣的會議。
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Now, you may feel that you have attended some long, boring meetings in your life,
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現在各位或許想到自己曾經出席 一些冗長又無聊的會議,
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and I'm sure you have.
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我很確信大家都曾有這種經驗。
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But these UN meetings are next-level,
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但是聯合國會議又更高一等,
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and everyone who works there approaches them with a level of calm
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而且每個參加的人都是 以禪宗大師能達到的心境
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normally only achieved by Zen masters.
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來開這場會議。
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But myself, I wasn't ready for that.
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但是我自己當時還沒有做好準備。
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I joined expecting drama and tension and breakthrough.
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我期待的是充滿戲劇性、 緊張氛圍,以及重大的突破。
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What I wasn't ready for
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我當時沒有準備好要面對
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was a process that seemed to move at the speed of a glacier,
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像是冰川移動如此慢速的會議流程,
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at the speed that a glacier used to move at.
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真的很像「以前」冰川移動的速度。
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Now, in the middle of one of these long meetings,
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其中一場會議中,
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I was handed a note.
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我收到了一張紙條。
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And it was handed to me by my friend and colleague and coauthor,
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這紙條是由我的朋友,同時也是 我的同事兼共同作家交給我的,
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Christiana Figueres.
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那人就是克里斯蒂安娜·菲格雷斯。
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Christiana was the Executive Secretary
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克里斯蒂安娜當時是
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of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,
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《聯合國氣候變遷綱要公約》的 執行秘書,
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and as such, had overall responsibility
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因此她要全面負責
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for the UN reaching what would become the Paris Agreement.
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聯合國達成《巴黎協定》。
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I was running political strategy for her.
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我當時正在為她制定政治策略。
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So when she handed me this note,
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所以當她把這張紙條交給我時,
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I assumed that it would contain detailed political instructions
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我以為這包含詳細的政治指示,
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about how we were going to get out of this nightmare quagmire
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說明如何擺脫
我們陷入噩夢般的泥淖困境。
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that we seemed to be trapped in.
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I took the note and looked at it.
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我收下紙條,然後看了一下。
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It said, "Painful.
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上面寫著:「痛苦啊。
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But let's approach with love!"
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但是讓我們用愛來應對這一切吧!」
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Now, I love this note for lots of reasons.
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由於很多緣故, 我現在非常喜歡這張紙條。
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I love the way the little tendrils are coming out from the word "painful."
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我喜歡小卷鬚的線條 從「痛苦」這個詞中冒出來。
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It was a really good visual depiction of how I felt at that moment.
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這是一個很好的描繪方式, 表達出我當時的感受。
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But I particularly love it because as I looked at it,
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但我特別喜歡的原因是, 當我看著它時,
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I realized that it was a political instruction,
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我意識到這就是一個政治指示,
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and that if we were going to be successful,
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如果我們要成功,
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this was how we were going to do it.
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就要這樣做。
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So let me explain that.
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所以讓我解釋一下。
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What I'd been feeling in those meetings was actually about control.
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事實上,我在那些會議裡 感受到的都是掌控的意圖。
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I had moved my life from Brooklyn in New York to Bonn in Germany
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我曾從紐約布魯克林搬到德國波恩,
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with the extremely reluctant support of my wife.
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但我的妻子其實是勉強答應這事。
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My children were now in a school where they couldn't speak the language,
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我的孩子那時就讀 一所不說英語的學校,
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and I thought the deal for all this disruption to my world
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而我認為打亂生活為的是
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was that I would have some degree of control over what was going to happen.
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能夠或多或少掌控 接下來會發生的事情。
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I felt for years that the climate crisis is the defining challenge
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多年以來,我一直認為氣候危機
是我們這一代人面臨的決定性挑戰,
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of our generation,
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and here I was, ready to play my part and do something for humanity.
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而我已經準備好發揮自己的本事, 為人類做些事情。
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But I put my hands on the levers of control that I'd been given
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但是當我把雙手放在 別人交給我的控制桿上,
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and pulled them,
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並且推動它時,
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and nothing happened.
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什麼事情都沒有發生。
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I realized the things I could control were menial day-to-day things.
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我意識到自己只能掌控日常的瑣事。
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"Do I ride my bike to work?" and "Where do I have lunch?",
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像是「我要騎自行車上班嗎?」 「要去哪吃午餐呢?」
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whereas the things that were going to determine
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然而某些決定我們
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whether we were going to be successful
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是否能夠成功的事情,
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were issues like, "Will Russia wreck the negotiations?"
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像是這些重大議題: 「俄羅斯是否會破壞談判呢?」
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"Will China take responsibility for their emissions?"
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「中國是否會對自家的排放量負責?」
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"Will the US help poorer countries deal with their burden of climate change?"
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「美國是否會幫貧窮國家 處理氣候變遷所帶來的負擔?」
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The differential felt so huge,
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這些議題之間的差異相當大,
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I could see no way I could bridge the two.
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我想不出方法可以連結兩者。
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It felt futile.
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這讓人感到徒勞無功。
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I began to feel that I'd made a mistake.
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我開始覺得自己犯了一個錯誤。
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I began to get depressed.
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我開始感到很沮喪。
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But even in that moment,
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但是即便在那時,
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I realized that what I was feeling had a lot of similarities
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我意識到自己的感受
與幾年前第一次發現氣候危機的感受 有著許多相似之處。
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to what I'd felt when I first found out about the climate crisis years before.
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I'd spent many of my most formative years as a Buddhist monk
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我二十初歲時,曾當過佛教僧侶
度過形塑我人格最重要的那幾年。
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in my early 20s,
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but I left the monastic life, because even then, 20 years ago,
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但是我離開了僧侶生活, 因為即使在 20 年前,
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I felt that the climate crisis was already a quickly unfolding emergency
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我仍然感到氣候危機已經是一種 迅速發展的緊急情況,
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and I wanted to do my part.
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而我想盡自己的一份力量。
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But once I'd left and I rejoined the world,
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但我一離開後,重新回到這個世界,
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I looked at what I could control.
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我看著有什麼事情是自己能掌控的:
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It was the few tons of my own emissions and that of my immediate family,
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我自己和直系親屬的幾噸排放量、
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which political party I voted for every few years,
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每隔幾年要投票給哪個政黨、
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whether I went on a march or two.
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是否要參加一兩場遊行。
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And then I looked at the issues that would determine the outcome,
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接著我檢視這些決定性議題,
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and they were big geopolitical negotiations,
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它們都是一些重大的地緣政治談判、
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massive infrastructure spending plans,
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大型基礎建設預算計畫,
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what everybody else did.
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或是其他人也做過的事。
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The differential again felt so huge
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這之間的差距如此之大,
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that I couldn't see any way that I could bridge it.
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讓我無法找到方法能夠縮小差距。
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I kept trying to take action,
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我試著採取行動,
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but it didn't really stick.
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但是真的行不通。
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It felt futile.
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我感到徒勞無功。
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Now, we know that this can be a common experience for many people,
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現在,我們知道這對許多人來說 是一個很常見的經驗,
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and maybe you have had this experience.
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而且各位可能曾有這樣的經驗。
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When faced with an enormous challenge
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當我們面對一個巨大的挑戰,
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that we don't feel we have any agency or control over,
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沒有能力執行或是無法控制時,
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our mind can do a little trick to protect us.
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我們的心智可以利用 一個小妙方來保護我們。
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We don't like to feel like we're out of control
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我們面對巨大衝擊時 不喜歡那種失控的感覺,
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facing big forces,
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so our mind will tell us, "Maybe it's not that important.
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所以我們的心智會告訴自己: 「或許這沒那麼重要。
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Maybe it's not happening in the way that people say, anyway."
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或許事情還沒像 大家說的那樣發生。」
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Or, it plays down our own role.
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或是心智會淡化我們自己的角色。
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"There's nothing that you individually can do, so why try?"
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「反正你一個人又做不到, 何必去試?」
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But there's something odd going on here.
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但是奇怪的事情發生了。
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Is it really true that humans will only take sustained and dedicated action
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難道人類只有在感到 具有高度控制能力時,
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on an issue of paramount importance
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才會針對最重要的問題
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when they feel they have a high degree of control?
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持續採取行動嗎?
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Look at these pictures.
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看一下這些圖片,
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These people are caregivers and nurses
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這些人是看護和護理師。
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who have been helping humanity face the coronavirus COVID-19
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在過去的幾個月中, 新冠肺炎成為流行病席捲全球,
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as it has swept around the world as a pandemic in the last few months.
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這些人仍在為人類對抗疫情。
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Are these people able to prevent the spread of the disease?
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這些人能夠阻止疾病的傳播嗎?
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No.
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不能。
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Are they able to prevent their patients from dying?
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他們能夠阻止病人死亡嗎?
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Some, they will have been able to prevent,
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有些或許能夠免於死亡,
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but others, it will have been beyond their control.
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但有一些超過他們能夠掌控的範圍。
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Does that make their contribution futile and meaningless?
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他們的貢獻是否徒勞無功且毫無意義?
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Actually, it's offensive even to suggest that.
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其實光是這樣說就讓人不快。
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What they are doing is caring for their fellow human beings
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他們正在做的事情是
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at their moment of greatest vulnerability.
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在最脆弱的時刻關愛同胞。
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And that work has huge meaning,
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這份工作有著重大的意義,
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to the point where I only have to show you those pictures
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我只需要向各位展示這些圖片,
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for it to become evident
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就可以清楚看到這些人 所表現出的勇氣和人性,
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that the courage and humanity those people are demonstrating
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makes their work some of the most meaningful things
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也使他們的工作成為
人類能力所及最有意義的事情,
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that can be done as human beings,
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even though they can't control the outcome.
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即使他們無法控制事情的結果。
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Now, that's interesting,
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這相當有趣,
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because it shows us that humans are capable
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因為這件事告訴我們人類有能力
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of taking dedicated and sustained action,
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持續投入行動之中,
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even when they can't control the outcome.
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即使他們無法掌控結果。
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But it leaves us with another challenge.
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但是這也產生另一個挑戰。
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With the climate crisis,
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氣候危機這件事,
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the action that we take is separated from the impact of it,
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我們對其採取的行動 和其影響相去甚遠;
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whereas what is happening with these images
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然而這些照片裡發生的事情是:
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is these nurses are being sustained not by the lofty goal of changing the world
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這些護理師堅守在崗位上, 並不是為了改變世界的崇高目標,
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but by the day-to-day satisfaction of caring for another human being
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而是因為從照顧某個虛弱的人,
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through their moments of weakness.
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得到日常的滿足感。
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With the climate crisis, we have this huge separation.
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在氣候危機中, 我們有這樣巨大的隔閡。
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It used to be that we were separated by time.
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在過去,我們是被時間隔開。
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The impacts of the climate crisis were supposed to be way off in the future.
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氣候危機的影響應該在遙遠的未來。
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But right now, the future has come to meet us.
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但現在,那個未來 已經讓我們給碰上了。
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Continents are on fire.
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各大洲的大火。
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Cities are going underwater.
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有些城市快沉了。
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Countries are going underwater.
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有的國家也快沉了。
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Hundreds of thousands of people are on the move as a result of climate change.
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由於氣候變遷的影響, 數十萬人正在遷徙。
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But even if those impacts are no longer separated from us by time,
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不過即使時間不再 讓我們與那些影響有隔閡,
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they're still separated from us in a way that makes it difficult to feel
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這之間仍有種隔閡,
讓人很難感受到 與氣候影響有直接關係。
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that direct connection.
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They happen somewhere else to somebody else
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它們以不同於過往經歷的方式,
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or to us in a different way than we're used to experiencing it.
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發生在其他地方、 其他人身上或是我們身上。
07:55
So even though that story of the nurse demonstrates something to us
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所以即使護理師的故事
展現出人類的天性,
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about human nature,
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we're going to have find a different way
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我們仍要尋找一個不同的方法
08:02
of dealing with the climate crisis in a sustained manner.
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來持續應對氣候危機。
08:06
There is a way that we can do this,
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有一個方法我們辦得到,
08:08
a powerful combination of a deep and supporting attitude
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懷抱著深切支持的態度
08:12
that when combined with consistent action
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加上一致的行動,
08:15
can enable whole societies to take dedicated action in a sustained way
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可以讓整個社會
為一個共同目標持續投入行動。
08:19
towards a shared goal.
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08:21
It's been used to great effect throughout history.
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在歷史上,這樣能發揮巨大效果。
08:24
So let me give you a historical story to explain it.
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我用個歷史故事來解釋。
08:28
Right now, I am standing in the woods near my home in southern England.
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現在,我站在英格蘭南部 我家附近的森林。
08:33
And these particular woods are not far from London.
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這片特別的森林距離倫敦沒有很遠。
08:36
Eighty years ago, that city was under attack.
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八十年前,倫敦遭受攻擊。
08:39
In the late 1930s,
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在 1930 年代末期,
08:41
the people of Britain would do anything to avoid facing the reality
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英國人民竭盡所能避免一件事成真,
08:45
that Hitler would stop at nothing to conquer Europe.
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就是希特勒不擇手段征服歐洲。
08:48
Fresh with memories from the First World War,
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一次大戰對英國人來說還記憶猶新,
08:50
they were terrified of Nazi aggression
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他們對納粹的侵略感到害怕,
08:53
and would do anything to avoid facing that reality.
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所以他們竭盡所能避免此事發生。
08:56
In the end, the reality broke through.
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最後,事情還是發生了。
08:59
Churchill is remembered for many things, and not all of them positive,
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邱吉爾因為許多事情而被銘記, 而且並不全是正面的事情,
09:03
but what he did in those early days of the war
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但是他在戰爭前期
09:06
was he changed the story the people of Britain told themselves
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改變英國人民告訴自己的故事:
09:10
about what they were doing and what was to come.
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他們過去的所作所為, 和他們預期會有的結果。
09:12
Where previously there had been trepidation and nervousness and fear,
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以前充滿不安、緊張、恐懼的地方,
09:16
there came a calm resolve,
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迎來了處變不驚的決心、
09:19
an island alone,
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一座孤獨的島、
09:20
a greatest hour,
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一段最輝煌的時光,
09:22
a greatest generation,
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一個最偉大的世代,
09:24
a country that would fight them on the beaches and in the hills
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一個在沙灘、山丘以及街道上
09:27
and in the streets,
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對抗敵人的國家,
09:29
a country that would never surrender.
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一個永不屈服的國家。
09:32
That change from fear and trepidation
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從恐懼不安到面對現實的變化
09:35
to facing the reality, whatever it was and however dark it was,
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無論它是什麼,無論它是多麼黑暗,
09:38
had nothing to do with the likelihood of winning the war.
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都與贏得戰爭的可能性無關。
09:41
There was no news from the front that battles were going better
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戰場前線沒消息指出戰況漸入佳境,
09:44
or even at that point that a powerful new ally had joined the fight
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或是當時有強而有力的新盟友加入,
09:48
and changed the odds in their favor.
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然後扭轉整個頹勢。
09:49
It was simply a choice.
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這在當時是一個很簡單的抉擇
09:51
A deep, determined, stubborn form of optimism emerged,
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一個深切、堅決、 頑強的樂觀態度出現了,
09:55
not avoiding or denying the darkness that was pressing in
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這不是逃避或否認正在逼近的黑暗,
09:58
but refusing to be cowed by it.
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而是拒絕被它嚇倒。
10:01
That stubborn optimism is powerful.
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這種頑強的樂觀是很強大的力量。
10:03
It is not dependent on assuming that the outcome is going to be good
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這不依賴於假設結果將是好的,
10:07
or having a form of wishful thinking about the future.
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或是對未來抱持希望的想法。
10:10
However, what it does is it animates action
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然而,這能驅使大家行動,
10:13
and infuses it with meaning.
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並且賦予行動意義。
10:15
We know that from that time,
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我們那時就知道這件事情,
10:17
despite the risk and despite the challenge,
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儘管有風險以及挑戰,
10:19
it was a meaningful time full of purpose,
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但這是一個充滿目標 且具有意義的時刻,
10:21
and multiple accounts have confirmed
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許多說法已經證實,
10:23
that actions that ranged from pilots in the Battle of Britain
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從英軍戰役中的飛行員
10:26
to the simple act of pulling potatoes from the soil
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到從土壤中拔馬鈴薯的簡單舉動,
10:29
became infused with meaning.
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都充滿了意義。
10:31
They were animated towards a shared purpose and a shared outcome.
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他們為實現共同目標 和共同結果而充滿活力。
10:35
We have seen that throughout history.
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我們在歷史上不斷看到這件事。
10:37
This coupling of a deep and determined stubborn optimism with action,
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深刻堅決的頑強樂觀態度結合行動,
10:42
when the optimism leads to a determined action,
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當樂觀態度促成一個堅決行動時,
10:44
then they can become self-sustaining:
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接著這些行動就能夠自己持續下去:
10:46
without the stubborn optimism, the action doesn't sustain itself;
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沒有頑強的樂觀態度, 便不能持續行動;
10:50
without the action, the stubborn optimism is just an attitude.
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沒有行動,那麼頑強的樂觀態度 只是一種態度而已。
10:53
The two together can transform an entire issue and change the world.
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兩件事結合才能夠 扭轉問題,改變世界。
10:58
We saw this at multiple other times.
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我們看過這現象發生在其他時刻。
11:00
We saw it when Rosa Parks refused to get up from the bus.
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羅莎·帕克斯拒絕讓座時,我們看到了。
11:03
We saw it in Gandhi's long salt marches to the beach.
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甘地帶領食鹽遊行群眾 步行至海邊時,我們看到了。
11:06
We saw it when the suffragettes said that "Courage calls to courage everywhere."
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當爭取參政權的婦女說: 「勇氣會喚醒更多勇氣。」我們看到了。
11:10
And we saw it when Kennedy said that within 10 years,
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當甘迺迪說十年之內, 他要把人送上月球時,
11:13
he would put a man on the moon.
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我們看到了。
11:15
That electrified a generation and focused them on a shared goal
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此舉讓一代人激動不已, 並讓他們專注在共同目標上,
11:18
against a dark and frightening adversary,
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對抗黑暗而令人恐懼的對手,
11:21
even though they didn't know how they would achieve it.
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即使他們不知道如何實現這一目標。
11:23
In each of these cases,
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在每個案例中,
11:25
a realistic and gritty but determined, stubborn optimism
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實際且勇敢,但是堅決頑強的樂觀態度
11:29
was not the result of success.
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不是成功的結果。
11:31
It was the cause of it.
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而是成功的原因。
11:33
That is also how the transformation happened
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也是因為這樣的轉變
11:36
on the road to the Paris Agreement.
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讓我們達成了《巴黎協定》。
11:38
Those challenging, difficult, pessimistic meetings transformed
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那些具有挑戰、困難 且悲觀的會議開始有了轉變,
11:43
as more and more people decided that this was our moment to dig in
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因為隨著越來越多人決定 此刻要開始認真工作,
11:47
and determine that we would not drop the ball on our watch,
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並下定決心不會在自己看管下犯錯,
11:49
and we would deliver the outcome that we knew was possible.
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以及提出可能發生的結果。
11:52
More and more people transformed themselves to that perspective
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越來越多人轉變為這種觀點,
11:55
and began to work,
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並且開始工作,
11:57
and in the end, that worked its way up into a wave of momentum
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最後,它發展成一股動能
12:00
that crashed over us
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席捲我們大家,
12:02
and delivered many of those challenging issues
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並提出許多挑戰性問題,
12:04
with a better outcome than we could possibly have imagined.
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伴隨著超出我們想像更好的結果 。
12:07
And even now, years later and with a climate denier in the White House,
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即使到現在,過了這麼多年, 加上白宮還有一個否認氣候問題的人,
12:11
much that was put in motion in those days is still unfolding,
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當時那些發動的事件至今仍在發展,
12:15
and we have everything to play for in the coming months and years
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而我們擁有這一切可以運用,
12:18
on dealing with the climate crisis.
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在未來數月與數年中應付氣候危機。
12:21
So right now, we are coming through one of the most challenging periods
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所以我們目前正在經歷
多數人生命之中,最艱難的時期。
12:25
in the lives of most of us.
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12:27
The global pandemic has been frightening,
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無論是否涉及個人悲劇,
12:30
whether personal tragedy has been involved or not.
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全球流行病都令人恐懼。
12:33
But it has also shaken our belief that we are powerless
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但這也動搖了我們的信念,
認為面對巨大的變化,我們無能為力。
12:37
in the face of great change.
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12:39
In the space of a few weeks,
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這幾個禮拜當中,
12:41
we mobilized to the point where half of humanity took drastic action
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我們動員一半人類採取極端行動,
12:46
to protect the most vulnerable.
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保護那些最脆弱的人。
12:48
If we're capable of that,
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如果我們能夠辦到,
12:50
maybe we have not yet tested the limits of what humanity can do
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或許人類迎接共同挑戰時,
12:54
when it rises to meet a shared challenge.
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還沒有真的測試到我們的極限。
12:57
We now need to move beyond this narrative of powerlessness,
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我們現在需要超越 這種無能為力的論述,
13:02
because make no mistake --
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因為毫無疑問的是,
13:03
the climate crisis will be orders of magnitude worse than the pandemic
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如果我們不採取仍然可行的行動,
13:08
if we do not take the action that we can still take
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來避免我們將要面對的悲劇,
13:11
to avert the tragedy that we see coming towards us.
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那些氣候危機會比疫情更嚴重數倍。
13:15
We can no longer afford the luxury of feeling powerless.
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我們再也無法承受 無能為力這種奢侈的感受。
13:19
The truth is that future generations
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事實就是未來世代將帶著敬畏
13:21
will look back at this precise moment with awe
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回顧這個清晰的時刻,
13:24
as we stand at the crossroads between a regenerative future
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當我們正站在重生的未來
13:27
and one where we have thrown it all away.
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與摒棄一切的十字路口。
13:29
And the truth is that a lot is going pretty well for us in this transition.
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而且事實是,在轉變當中 許多事情對我們來說發展得很好:
13:34
Costs for clean energy are coming down.
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乾淨能源的成本正在下降、
13:35
Cities are transforming. Land is being regenerated.
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城市正在轉型、土地正在重生、
13:38
People are on the streets calling for change
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大家在街上
以熱情和堅韌呼籲改變,
13:40
with a verve and tenacity
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13:42
we have not seen for a generation.
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我們已有一個世代未曾見過此景。
13:45
Genuine success is possible in this transition,
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在這個過渡時期, 真正的成功是有可能達成的,
13:48
and genuine failure is possible, too,
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也可能產生真正的失敗。
13:50
which makes this the most exciting time to be alive.
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這些事讓此生 成為最讓人興奮的年代。
13:53
We can take a decision right now that we will approach this challenge
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我們可以馬上做出決定,
以頑強、實際且堅定的 樂觀態度應對這個挑戰。
13:57
with a stubborn form of gritty, realistic and determined optimism
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14:02
and do everything within our power to ensure that we shape the path
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並在能力所及的範圍內竭盡全力,
14:05
as we come out of this pandemic towards a regenerative future.
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確保當我們擺脫疫情時, 能打造一條通往再生未來的道路。
14:09
We can all decide that we will be hopeful beacons for humanity
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我們所有人都可以決定,
即使未來有黑暗的日子, 我們也將成為人類的希望燈塔,
14:13
even if there are dark days ahead,
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14:15
and we can decide that we will be responsible,
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我們也可以決定負起責任,
14:18
we will reduce our own emissions by at least 50 percent
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在未來的十年內
14:20
in the next 10 years,
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減少 50% 的排放量。
14:22
and we will take action to engage with governments and corporations
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還有,我們將採取行動, 與政府和企業合作,
14:26
to ensure they do what is necessary coming out of the pandemic
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確保他們做出必要的措施擺脫疫情,
14:29
to rebuild the world that we want them to.
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重新建立一個我們希望 他們打造的世界。
14:32
Right now, all of these things are possible.
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目前,所有事情都有可能成真。
14:36
So let's go back to that boring meeting room
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所以讓我們回到無聊的會議室,
14:40
where I'm looking at that note from Christiana.
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我看著克里斯蒂安娜的紙條,
14:43
And looking at it took me back
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看著它,我又回到了
14:45
to some of the most transformative experiences of my life.
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一生之中一些最具變革性的經歷。
14:49
One of the many things I learned as a monk
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身為僧侶時, 我學到的其中一件事即是,
14:52
is that a bright mind and a joyful heart is both the path and the goal in life.
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開闊胸懷和喜悅的心 是人生的道路和目標。
14:59
This stubborn optimism is a form of applied love.
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頑強的樂觀態度 是一種應用愛的形式。
15:04
It is both the world we want to create
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它既是我們想要創造的世界,
15:07
and the way in which we can create that world.
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又是我們創造世界的方式。
15:09
And it is a choice for all of us.
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這是我們所有人可以決定的。
15:12
Choosing to face this moment with stubborn optimism
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選擇以頑強的樂觀態度面對這一刻,
15:15
can fill our lives with meaning and purpose,
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可以使我們的生活充滿意義和目的,
15:18
and in doing so, we can put a hand on the arc of history
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如此一來,我們可以扭轉歷史,
15:22
and bend it towards the future that we choose.
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朝著我們選擇的未來發展。
15:26
Yes, living now feels out of control.
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目前的狀況令人感到失控。
15:30
It feels frightening and scary and new.
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令人感到驚嚇、恐懼、陌生。
15:33
But let's not falter at this most crucial of transitions
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但是,我們不要為即將到來
15:37
that is coming at us right now.
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最關鍵的轉變而有所動搖。
15:39
Let's face it with stubborn and determined optimism.
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讓我們用頑強堅定的樂觀態度面對。
15:43
Yes, seeing the changes in the world right now
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看到目前世界上的改變,
15:46
can be painful.
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可能有點痛苦。
15:48
But let's approach it with love.
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但讓我們用愛來應對它吧。
15:50
Thank you.
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