Al Gore's FULL climate change discussion at WEF

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
午安，女士先生們。

 I'm Al Gore. 
我是 Al Gore。

I'm opening this plenary to preview this outstanding panel that's going to come up here.
我幫這個..這個即將開始的論壇做開場。

I want to set the stage if I could to all of the distinguished guests.
我想把舞台設置的好一點，如果我可以的話，為了這些尊貴的來賓們。

I don't have my distance glasses on but...
我沒戴著我的遠視眼鏡，但是......

Your highness Hilde, Schwab, I want to thank Klaus Schwab for convening this plenary on this topic.
陛下、Hilde、Schwab....我想特別感謝一下Klaus Schwab就這次的主題召開全體的會議。

And I want to note that this is the fourth year in a row that the World Economic Forum has named the climate crisis as the number one threat to the global economy.
然後我要強調，世界經濟論壇已經連續四年，將氣候危機界定為影響全球經濟的首要威脅。

Of course, it is a threat to much else as well.
當然，這在其他方面也是一個威脅。

And I want to spend just a moment or two on the bad news and then quickly get to the good news before we bring this panel on.
然後我想花一點時間在這個壞消息上，然後在趕快把焦點轉到好的消息上；在讓成員們上台前。

And we have a great treat for you because my favorite broadcaster I think it's safe to say the world's favorite broadcaster.
然後我們有好的消息要給大家，因為我最喜歡的廣播員，我敢說是全世界都很喜歡的廣播員。

Sir David Attenborough is going to give us preview of this magnificent new series: Our planet. That's coming out and you'll be seeing more of that a bit later.
David Attenborough爵士，要給大家一個即將上映的全新系列："我們的星球"的預覽，你們等等就可以看到了。

But first of all to set the context.
但是我們先整理好先後順序。

Since the last annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, we have had a number of detailed reports from the scientific community around the world.
自上次世界經濟論壇年會以來，我們收到了世界各地科學界的一些詳細報告。

Most importantly, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, which only a few months ago issued a special interim report on how important it is to keep the temperature increase below one and a half degrees Celsius.
最重要的是，政府間氣候變化專門委員會，IPCC，僅在幾個月前發布了一份特別臨時報告，報告將溫度升高控制在1.5攝氏以下的重要性。

And the substance of that report was extremely sobering.
這個報告內容十分發人深省。

It quite properly commanded the attention of policymakers around the world.
也適當的引起了全世界政策制定者的關注。

Unfortunately, not all of them have acted on it a course.
不幸的是，自然並非所有人都採取了行動。

But I bring it up just to underscore the significance of that report.
但我提出這個問題只是為了強調該報告的重要性。

In my country, soon after we had what we call our National Climate Assessment, which was in the same spirit, warning us of what will occur if we do not take action boldly and urgently.
在我的國家，在我們本著同樣的精神 結束國家氣候評估之後不久，警告我們如果不採取大膽和緊迫的行動會發生什麼。

Then of the hothouse earth report came out prepared by several distinguished scientific institutes.
然後由幾個傑出的科學研究所準備溫室地球報告中指出。

Again, with the same message, we have seen just in the last two weeks reports that the ice on Greenland is melting four times faster than was predicted, reports that the ice in East Antarctica where the bulk of the ice on the planet is is now beginning to melt much more rapidly and degrade.
我們在過去兩週的報告中看到，格陵蘭島的冰層融化速度比預期的快四倍，根據報告中，東南極洲的冰層，地球上的大部分冰層的所在地，現在開始崩解、融化得更快。

So all of these findings add up to a very simple message.
因此，所有這些報告都會顯示一個非常簡單的信息。

We have to change.
我們需要改變。

We are putting 110 million tonnes of manmade heat trapping global warming pollution into the very thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet as if it's an open sewer and we do that every single day.
我們正在將1.1億噸人造的全球暖化污染物投到我們星球非常薄的大氣層中，好像它是一個開放的下水道一樣，而且我們每天都這樣做。

And you know there is a misconception that most of us have had at some point in our lives about the nature of the sky. It is not as it appears from the ground a vast and limitless expanse.
而且你知道我們大多數人在生活中的某些方面都對天空的本質產生了一種誤解。它不是從地面看起來是一個巨大而無限的廣闊空間。

It is actually a very thin shell that has far fewer molecules than we might imagine.
它實際上是一個非常薄的殼，其分子數遠遠少於我們想像的。

If you could drive an automobile at normal freeway speed straight up in the into the sky, you would get to the top of the sky in five or ten minutes.
如果你能夠以正常的行駛高速公路的速度, 直接駕駛汽車進入天空，你將在五到十分鐘內到達天空的頂部。

Defining the sky as that level where the heat-trapping gases are located and where we can't breathe anymore if we go higher.
如果天空的定義是吸熱氣體的分布地區的話，因為再往上我們就不能呼吸了。

So it has accumulated and it stays there for a long time.
所以說，他已經在那裏累積了很久的時間了。

And the accumulated amount that is up there now traps as much extra heat energy every day as would be released by 500,000 Hiroshima class atomic bombs exploding every day on the Earth's surface.
而現在累積的數量每天都會產生額外的熱能，就像每天在地球表面引爆500,000個廣島級原子彈一樣。

Let me say that again.
讓我再說一次。

Five hundred thousand erosion Maasai's bombs every day.
每天在地球表面引爆500,000個廣島級原子彈。

It's a big planet.
這星球雖然很大。

But that is a lot of energy and 93 percent of that extra heat energy is going into the oceans.
但這是很多的額外熱能，93％的額外熱能進入海洋。

But with apologies to Las Vegas of what happens in the ocean doesn't stay in the ocean, it comes back in the form of a disrupted water cycle.
但是，在這先向拉斯維加斯道歉，海洋中發生的事情不會留在海洋中，它會以被破壞的水循環形式回歸。

With much more water evaporation coming off the oceans into the sky, and the atmospheric rivers that create the rain bombs and the floods and the mudslides, and the disrupted water cycle also features much longer and deeper more destructive droughts, and agriculture is suffering.
隨著更多的水蒸發從海洋流入天空，產生超大豪雨，洪水和泥石流的大氣河流。這種被破壞的水循環也會造成更長，更深的破壞性旱災，農業正在遭受苦難。

Temperatures are going up the five hottest years ever measured with instruments have been the last five years.
溫度持續提升之下，這五年是經儀器測量後最熱的五年。

18 of the 19 hottest years have been in the last 19 years.
在過去19年中，最熱的年份佔了18年。

Now the fact that these predictions in the past from the scientists, who devote their lives to this task, have been predictions borne out by subsequent events should cause us to pay more attention to what they're predicting will happen in the years going forward if we don't change.
事實上，過去這些畢生致力於這項任務的科學家的，已被後續研究所證實的預測，應該使我們更加關注到我們再不改變的後果。

80 percent of all the energy on our planet comes from burning fossil fuels.
我們星球上80%的能源來自於燃燒化石燃料。

But here is the good news.
但是這裡有個好消息。

We can change that.
我們可以改變。

We have seen the kind of nearly miraculous cost reduction curves in solar electricity and wind electricity that we have seen and computer chips and other areas of high technology.
我們已經看到了幾乎奇蹟般的成本降低曲線，在太陽能電力和風力發電領域中，電腦芯片和其他高科技領域亦然。

Batteries are now coming down and costs electric vehicles are soaring in popularity.
電池也日漸進步，電動汽車也持續人氣飆升。

Efficiency improvements of all kinds have added up to the early stages of a sustainability revolution which has the magnitude of the Industrial Revolution but the speed of the digital revolution.
各種效率的提升已經達到可持續性革命的早期階段，這個革命具有工業革命的規模，但卻是卻數位革命的速度。

Giving executive teams the ability to manage atoms and molecules and electrons with the same efficiency that the information technology companies have demonstrated in managing bits of information.
只要賦予執行的團隊管理原子，分子和電子的能力，其效率和信息技術公司在管理信息量方面所證明的效率比起來是相同。

We can solve this.
我們可以解決的。

But we need leadership and I want to thank the World Economic Forum for providing leadership.
但是我們需要被領導，所以我要感謝世界經濟論壇提供我們所需的領導力。

I came from meetings earlier today with the International Business Council where CEO after CEO from countries all over the world spoke up and said we have got to tackle this.
我今天早些時候參加了國際商業理事會會議，來自世界各國的首席執行官都不約而同地提起，並表示我們必須解決這個問題。

Some are and some aren't but some are really doing a fantastic job and more are joining them every single day.
有些是，有些不是，但有些人真的做得非常好，並且每天都有更多的人加入這個行列。

Investors are changing as well.
投資者也在改變。

So that's the good news.
所以這算好消息。

We know we have to change because of the bad news.
我們因為上面的壞消息，知道我們必須改變。

We know we can change so the remaining question is will we change.
我們也知道我們是有能力改變的。所以只剩下一個問題: 我們要不要改變？

So in order to address that question and the state of our planet, I now want to invite our panelists to come on stage.
為了解決這個問題和了解"我們的星球"，我現在想邀請我們的小組成員上台。

First of all, the incomparable Sir David Attenborough broadcaster and naturalist and winner of the Crystal Award Hilda last evening.
首先，無與倫比的David Attenborough爵士；廣播員和博物學家，以及昨晚的希爾達水晶獎獲得者。

Thank you, sir.
感謝你，爵士。

Next Jacinda Ardern.
下一位是 Jacinda Ardern。

First of all, let's hear it for.
但首先我們先給爵士一個掌聲。

Thank you. thank you.
謝謝。謝謝。

I think they've got you right here.
我想座位是安排在這裡。

The prime minister of New Zealand and also a young global leader Jacinda Ardern.
紐西蘭總理，也是一名年輕的國際領導者Jacinda Ardern。

I am a big fan.
久仰大名。

Thank you so much Prime Minister, thank you very much.
非常感謝你，總理。真的非常感謝。

And chairman of the Mahindra Group in India, member of the International Business Council and a good personal friend Anand Mahindra, thank you so much.
位於印度的Mahindra集團董事長，國際商業理事會成員和我的好朋友Anand Mahindra，非常感謝你。

And finally a chair of the board of directors of zero-waste Academy in Japan Akira sakano.
最後是日本零廢棄學院董事會主席Akira sakano。

Akira, welcome, thank you very much, thank you.
Akira，歡迎，非常感謝妳。

I want to turn directly to the subject of our planet because you are a very skilled observer.
我想直接把主題轉到"我們星球"上，因為你是一位非常經驗豐富的觀察者。

And over a lifetime, overall this time, you have watched this climate crisis and the crisis and humanity's relationship to nature develop.
在您的一生中，經過這麼久的觀察，你已經看到了這場氣候危機以及這場危機是如何影響人類與大自然。

What have you learned?
您看到了甚麼？

How serious is this.....
這有多......

I heard your talk last night and I thought it was very eloquent but how serious is this in your view?
我昨晚聽了你的演講，我覺得非常有說服力，但從您的角度看來，您認為這有多嚴重？

I can't imagine anything more serious.
我無法想像更嚴重的事情。

I really can't.
真的無法。

And the trouble is that change is accelerating. Is it not? 
而且這個危機等級正在不斷提高，不是嗎？

Yeah. Things are getting worse faster than they were.
是的。跟以前比起來變糟的太快了。

And but the maddening thing is that we now know how to deal with it.
而且很瘋狂的是，我們已經有解方法了。

Yeah.
是的。

We've just got to do so.
我們只需要去實施就好了。

Yeah yeah yeah.
您說的是。

Why don't you think we…...I mean…...you're……
你是怎麼看......我是說....你.....

It's not fair to ask you a question about global politics but perhaps you have developed some views about why we've been so slow off the mark here?
我知道問你對國際政策的觀點有失公允，但也許你有一些見解，關於我們遲遲不行動這一點。

Because the…...we prefer comfort than challenged in truth.
因為說實話......我們寧可安逸，不想有挑戰。

Yeah.
是的。

And a lot of us will do the same in our private lives.
而且我相信在座各位私底下也很多是這樣子。
Let's not be too hypocritical about this.
我們可以坦承這一點。

But it's much easier to say it doesn't really matter.
但是，說"沒有大不了"是非常容易的。

Yeah. It was not really happening anyway.
對。 "這根本沒有真實的發生。"

But to look at the consequences of what's happening is…...is the adult thing to do.
正視現在正發生的事情和它所帶來的後果，是成熟的人該做的。

That's what we have to do now.
這也是我們現在必須要做的。

And you look at these beautiful animals and then here that we have lost half, more than half of all the actual animals not the species but the actual animals just in the last 30 40 years.
你看著美麗的動物們，發現我們已經失去了一半...多於一半的動物總量。不是品種，是總量，在只經過30~40年的時間。

Absolutely so.
這是對的。

Because we've got very very sophisticated ways of killing them.
因為我們正在用非常"多元"的方法殘害他們。

Yeah yeah.
對的，沒錯。

And…...and we are in danger of losing half the species in this…...in this century.
然後.....在這個世紀，將近半數的生物品種也瀕臨滅絕。

Yes, multiple-studies have shown us this.
沒錯，已經有很多這方面的報告了。

So I'm gonna come back to you. But speaking of global politics.
我們之後再回來這個議題，但說到國際政策。

So we have a prime minister here and……
我們現在有位首相在這裡....

You're not gonna put it all on me.
你不能把責怪都丟到我身上。

Yeah. I said I'm a big fan of your work Prime Minister.
當然。我說過我很讚賞您所做的事呀，首相。

And I've said that publicly and I think you really represent a breath of fresh air and in world politics.
而且我也公開表示過了，我認為您真的是一股國際政治的清流。

But I know that in leading your country, you're interested in improving the intergenerational well-being of New Zealanders and…...and build an international reputation for New Zealand and……
但我知道，在領導你的國家時，你有意願要改善新西蘭人的代際福祉......並為新西蘭建立國際上的良好聲譽......

How do…...how do those challenges inform your approach to the climate crisis?
如何......這些挑戰如何影響您應對氣候危機的態度？

I think you could probably put them in the same basket what greater threat to our well-being is there than the current threat of climate change.
我認為你可能把它們放在同一個問題裡，現在對我們的福祉的威脅比目前的氣候變化威脅更大。

Yeah. we have a…...we have a tomb in New Zealand.
是啊。 我們有......我們在紐西蘭有一座墳墓。

That's unique to New Zealand because it's a phrase from indigenous New Zealanders Marty.
對紐西蘭來說這座墓是獨一無二的，因為它是紐西蘭人原住民馬蒂人的的語言。

it's this tomb kaitiakitanga and it means guardianship, specifically guardianship of our environment.
他叫kaitiakitanga之墓，它意味著守護，特別是對我們環境的守護。

And so the way I'd like to think about are some politics taking on the challenge of climate changes that we have a short term, a three-year term that's our political cycle in which I see the challenges to embed in that period of time as deeply as we can the infrastructure for long term change.
因此，我想需要考慮的是一些政治應對氣候變化的挑戰，因為我們週期很短，一個三年的任期，這是我們的政治週期，我認為需要在那段時間內盡可能深入地進行未來長期變革中的的基礎設施。

One of the biggest threats I think that we have and you talked about why we're not making enough progress.
我認為我們遇到的最大威脅之一，也就是你們在問的為什麼遲遲不行動的原因。

Political cycle this needs to be something that we embed in our national psyches and our political psyches and an erection and it needs to endure beyond us as individuals.
這個我們擁有的政治週期需要融入我們的民族心理和政治心理以及挺身而出，它需要超越作為個體我們。

And so if we can do anything, we will be creating legislation which impedes those targets that ambition that we need, and then right through to the basic pragmatic things like planting a billion trees over ten years, creating investment funds, doing each of the things that will set us on a long-term path for guardianship because that's what we all have to take the responsibility and for.
所以如果我們能夠幫到什麼事情，我們可以制定立法，預防那些我們急需預防的事情，然後做一些基本的務實事情，例如十年種植十億棵樹，創造投資基金，這一些事情這將為我們的長期目標-守護之路鋪路，因為這是我們所有人都必須承擔的責任。

I've been so happy at the proposals you've made since you took office.
我對你上任以來提出的建議感到非常高興。

It puts to mind saying from an American humorist in the 19th century, Mark Twain, who said do the right thing you'll gratify your friends and astonish your enemies.
我想起了19世紀美國幽默家馬克吐溫的話，他說做正確的事情，你會滿足你的朋友，讓你的敵人大吃一驚。

 

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