On time and water | Andri Snær Magnason

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Hi, my name is Andri Snær Magnason,

嗨，我叫安德列·斯納·麥格納森，

talking from Iceland.

現在人在冰島。

【2020 年 10 月】

(Water rushing)

（急流聲）

In 2019, we had lost our first glacier to climate change:

2019 年，我們因氣候變遷 失去了第一座冰川。

the Okjökull, the Ok glacier,

歐克庫（Okjökull），人稱 OK 冰川，

that is not OK anymore.

不再 OK 了。

And in the next 200 years,

在未來的兩百年中，

we expect all our glaciers to follow the same path.

我們預期地球上的所有冰川 都會走上這條路。

This glacier here is one of them:

現在我所在的這個冰川就是其中之一。

Sólheimajökull, in the south coast of Iceland.

它位於冰島南海岸的塞爾海馬伊庫爾。

(Water rushing)

（急流聲）

I wrote a poem for a plaque that was placed on the mountain

我寫了一首詩，現在刻在一塊銘板上，

where Okjökull once stood.

放置在山上的 OK 冰川舊址。

It was a letter to the future,

這是一封寫給未來的信。

and it says,

我是這樣寫的：

"This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening

「這個紀念牌告訴你， 我們知道正在發生什麼事，

and what needs to be done.

也知道我們該做什麼。

Only you know if we did it."

只有你知道我們是否做到了。」

My grandparents, they were glacier explorers at times,

舊時，我的祖父母曾在冰川探險，

when the glaciers seemed eternal.

那時以為冰川的存在是永恆的。

They went on a glacial honeymoon in the year 1956.

1956 年，他們在冰川度蜜月。

For three weeks, they were mapping and traveling Vatnajökull,

他們花了三個月時間 在歐洲最大的冰川瓦特納冰川上

Europe's biggest glacier,

繪製地圖和旅行，

sleeping in tents in extreme temperatures.

在極度低溫中睡在帳篷裡。

And I asked them once, "Weren't you cold?"

我曾經問他們：「你們不冷嗎？」

And they said, "Cold?

他們回答我：「冷？

We were just married."

新婚怎麼會冷？」

My grandmother just turned 96,

祖母剛滿 96 歲。

and now we know that many glaciers will be gone

現在我們知道許多冰川

within the time someone born today becomes as old as my grandmother is now.

都會在今天出生的人 96 歲之前消失。

We need to start connecting to the future in an intimate and urgent way.

我們需要趕緊與未來建立密切關係。

My grandmother, she was born in the year 1924.

我祖母生於 1924 年。

And if I have grandchildren,

如果我有孫子女，

the people I will love the most in my life will still be alive in the year 2150.

這些我未來最愛的人 在 2150 年的時候還活著。

Because our time is the time of the people that we know and love,

因為我們的時代是 「現在」相識和所愛的人的時代，

the time that created us,

一個創造我們的時代；

and our time is also the time of the people that we will know and love,

但我們的時代也是 「未來」相識和所愛的人的時代，

the time that we create.

一個我們創造的時代。

We can easily span 230 years --

從我們認識的前幾代到未來幾代，

the handshake of generations.

這段時間至少有 230 年。

When a scientist says 2100, we just shrug; we don't feel connected.

科學家說到 2100 年如何如何的時候， 我們只是聳聳肩——跟我們無關。

But I asked my grandmother, "Are 100 years a long time or short time?"

我問祖母：「100 年很長還是很短？」

And she said, to my surprise,

她出乎意料地回答：

"It's a short time.

「很短。

I feel like I was traveling the glaciers yesterday."

冰川旅行彷彿是昨天才發生的。」

(Water rushing)

（急流聲）

So 2100 is not a distant future.

所以 2100 年不是遙遠的未來，

It's basically tomorrow,

而是明天，

because in the mind of those people,

因為在那時的人眼裡，

2020 will be yesterday.

2020 年就像是昨天。

And I'm quite sure that we want them to look at our time

我們當然希望他們是帶著驕傲和感恩

with pride and gratitude,

來回顧我們的時代，

because we knew what was happening

因為當時我們知道發生了什麼事，

and we know what needs to be done,

也知道我們該做什麼，

and we actually, eventually, did the right thing.

最後我們也做到了。

Thank you.

謝謝。