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 that mankind has looked at
climate change in that same way as if it
were a fiction as if pretending that
climate change wasn't real would somehow
make it go away
but I think we all know better than that
now every week we're seeing new and
undeniable climate events evidence that
accelerated climate change is here right
now droughts are intensifying our oceans
are acidifying with methane plumes
rising up from the ocean floor we are
seeing extreme weather events and the
West's 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 knows it
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 this difficult but achievable
task you can make history or you will be
vilified by it to be clear this is not
about just telling people to change
their lightbulbs or to buy a hybrid car
this disaster has grown beyond the
choices that individuals make this is
now about our industries and our
governments around the world taking
decisive large-scale action now must be
our moment for action we need to put a
price tag on carbon emissions and
eliminate government subsidies for old
oil coal and gas companies we need to
the free ride that industrial polluters
have been given in the name of a
free-market economy they do not 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 this
is not a partisan debate it is a human
one clean air and a livable climate are
in a label human rights and solving this
crisis is not a question of politics it
is a question of our own survival this
is the most urgent of times and the most
urgent of messages honored 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 but
now it is your turn the time to answer
humankind's greatest challenge is now we
beg of you to face it with courage and
honesty thank you
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我不是以专家的身份站在你们面前，而是
作为一名关心的公民，这是周日
在纽约街头游行的 40 万人中的一员，
也是世界各地
想要解决气候危机的数十亿
人中的一员。 活着 我扮演
虚构的角色 经常解决
虚构的问题
我相信人类看待
气候变化的方式就像它
是虚构的一样 就好像假装
气候变化不真实会以某种方式
让它消失
但我想我们都知道 比这更好
现在每周我们都看到新的和
不可否认的气候事件 有证据表明
气候变化正在加速
干旱正在加剧 我们的海洋
正在酸化，甲烷羽流
从海底升起 我们正在
看到极端天气事件和
西部的南极 和格陵兰
冰盖以前所未有的速度融化，
比科学预测提前几十年
这些都不是夸夸其谈，也不
是歇斯底里 这是事实 科学
界知道 工业知道
政府知道 甚至
美国军方也知道
美国海军太平洋司令部司令
塞缪尔·洛克利尔上将最近表示，
气候变化是我们最大的
安全威胁
我的朋友们，这个机构可能比
任何其他聚会都更严重 在人类历史上
现在面临着一项艰巨但可以
完成的任务，你可以创造历史，否则你会
被它诋毁，这
不仅仅是告诉人们
更换灯泡或购买混合动力汽车，
这场灾难已经超出
了个人的选择范围 现在就让
我们的行业和我们的
政府在世界各地采取
果断的大规模行动 现在必须是
我们采取行动的时刻 我们需要为
碳排放定价并
取消政府对旧
石油煤炭和天然气公司的补贴 我们需要
以自由市场经济的名义给工业污染者搭便车，
他们不
值得 r 税收 他们应该受到我们的
审查
如果我们的生态系统崩溃，经济本身就会消亡 好消息
是，可再生能源不仅是
可以实现的，而且是良好的经济政策 这
不是党派辩论 它是
人类 清洁的空气和宜居的气候
贴上人权标签，解决这场
危机不是政治问题，而是
我们自身生存的问题，这
是最紧迫的时代，也是最
紧迫的信息尊敬
的世界各国代表领导人
不是人们
在星期天在世界各地发出他们的声音
，而且势头不会停止，但
现在轮到你回答
人类最大的挑战了，现在我们
恳求你以勇气和诚实面对它，
谢谢