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经合组织在一份最新发布的环境展望报告中以交通灯的颜色来标示环境问题的严重性 结果么... 看图吧
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Simon Upton
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答疑：Vechosyhttp://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201203/201203310451062236475.mp3It's March, 2012. That's the present. What about the future? What about the state of the world in 2050? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has an idea what it might look like. They are holding a press conference right now here at the offices of the British government's environment department.
"And what we're launching today is a 350-page book, which is the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050."
That's Simon Upton. He is head of the environment division of the OECD and I'll be talking to him when he's finished this morning's briefing. He is explaining the environmental challenges that they see, challenges like climate change, water quality, pollution and health - numerous threats, all of them colour-coded.
"And the traffic lights. You know, green means things are not too, too badly. Yellow, it's a challenge. Red light, going the wrong way. If you added up the red lights in here, it's overwhelmingly red-light territory. This is a very grim report. It suggests that we are not steering in the right direction on many fronts."
"Simon Upton, welcome to OnePlanet. Let's talk about this report that you're launching today, the highlights - or perhaps lowlights would be a better word. You've assigned this traffic light system, red, amber, green. We'll come to green light a little later - the good news. That won't take us very long though because most of the action comes in the red-light column, doesn't it?"
"It does. If we don't have very significant policy change, we're going to see strongly rising greenhouse gas emissions. Without policy change, we think that about 80% of global energy will come from fossil sources. That's really no change over today. We're going to see a 10% increase in the loss of biodiversity for where we are. We're going to see much much more scarce water in many parts of the world and we're going to see rising premature death from air pollution in particular in all parts of the world."现在是2012年3月，这是目前的状态，那么将来呢？2050年的世界会是什么模样？经济合作与发展组织有话说。此时此刻，就在这里，他们正在和英国政府环境部门一道举行一场新闻发布会。
“我们今天要发布的是一本350页的书，《经合组织2050年环境展望》。”
这位是西蒙·阿普顿，经合组织环境理事会负责人。等他结束今天上午的简报，我就要采访他。他正在阐述他们发现的环境难题，如气候变化、水质、污染和健康——不计其数的威胁，全都用彩色标出。
“另外还要向大家介绍这些交通信号灯。众所周知，绿色表示情况不坏，黄色说明不妙，而红色则是出了问题。算算这里红灯数量的总和，简直是山河一片红。这份报告殊不乐观，它表明我们在许多领域已经偏离了正轨。”
“西蒙·阿普顿，欢迎来到OnePlanet节目。我们来聊聊你们今天发布的这份报告吧，你用了红黄绿三色的交通信号灯系统来突出亮点——或者还是说‘暗点’比较确切。我们待会再来说绿灯，也就是好消息。那也花不了多久，因为红灯那一栏才是最活跃的，对吧？”
“没错。如果我们不实行重大政策变革，那么温室气体的排放量将显著升高。政策不变的话，我们估计全球能量的80%将依赖于化石资源，这实际上就是当前的状况。照这个趋势，生物多样性丧失将增加10%，在全世界多个地区缺水的问题将大大蔓延，全球范围内的夭折率也将升高，尤其是由空气污染引起的。”
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