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联合国和平使者迪卡普里奥指出，解决气候变化问题不是政治问题，而是与人类生存息息相关的问题，要解决气候变化问题，现在是最紧迫的时候。
Thank you, Mr Secretary General, your excellencies, ladies and gentleman,
and distinguished guests. I’m honored to be here today, I stand before you not
as an expert but as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched
in the streets of New York on Sunday, and the billions of others around the
world who want to solve our climate crisis.
As an actor I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often
solving fictitious problems.
I believe humankind has looked at climate change in that same way: as if it
were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that
climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.
But I think we know better than that. Every week, we’re seeing new and
undeniable climate events, evidence that accelerated climate change is here now.
We know that droughts are intensifying, our oceans are warming and acidifying,
with methane plumes rising up from beneath the ocean floor. We are seeing
extreme weather events, increased temperatures, and the West Antarctic and
Greenland ice-sheets melting at unprecedented rates, decades ahead of scientific
projections.
None of this is rhetoric, and none of it is hysteria. It is fact. The
scientific community knows it, Industry and governments know it, even the United
States military knows it. The chief of the US navy’s Pacific command, admiral
Samuel Locklear, recently said that climate change is our single greatest
security threat.
My Friends, this body – perhaps more than any other gathering in human
history – now faces that difficult task. You can make history ... or be vilified
by it.
To be clear, this is not about just telling people to change their light
bulbs or to buy a hybrid car. This disaster has grown BEYOND the choices that
individuals make. This is now about our industries, and governments around the
world taking decisive, large-scale action.
I am not a scientist, but I don’t need to be. Because the world’s
scientific community has spoken, and they have given us our prognosis, if we do
not act together, we will surely perish.
Now is our moment for action.
We need to put a pricetag on carbon emissions, and eliminate government
subsidies for coal, gas, and oil companies. We need to end the free ride that
industrial polluters have been given in the name of a free-market economy, they
don’t deserve our tax dollars, they deserve our scrutiny. For the economy itself
will die if our ecosystems collapse.
The good news is that renewable energy is not only achievable but good
economic policy. New research shows that by 2050 clean, renewable energy could
supply 100% of the world’s energy needs using existing technologies, and it
would create millions of jobs.
This is not a partisan debate; it is a human one. Clean air and water, and
a livable climate are inalienable human rights. And solving this crisis is not a
question of politics. It is our moral obligation – if, admittedly, a daunting
one.
We only get one planet. Humankind must become accountable on a massive
scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home. Protecting our future
on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.
This is the most urgent of times, and the most urgent of messages.
Honoured delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living. But you
do not. The people made their voices heard on Sunday around the world and the
momentum will not stop. And now it’s YOUR turn, the time to answer the greatest
challenge of our existence on this planet ... is now.
I beg you to face it with courage. And honesty. Thank you.
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发表于 2016-7-12 22:06:32