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And by the time you all reach your billionth second here on earth when you're a little over six months into your 31st year
你们也会等到十亿位变动的那一刻到时你们大约是31岁半过一点
We will probably be over 9 billion and perhaps well on our way to 12 billion humans on earth
地球人口可能会超过90亿甚至可能会一直增长到120亿
What this means is we are all part of the problem
这意味着我们都是问题的一部分
we are all consuming resources, we are all parts of the crisis of climate disruption
我们都在消耗资源 我们都是气候破坏危机的一部分
but your parents and I want you especially to create the solutions and I dare say change the world
不过我和你们的父母 都将寄希望于你们 来找出解决方式我敢说 你们会改变世界
I believe that if the graduates of 2014 go into the world ready for change change will happen
我相信 2014届毕业生如果能够做好改变世界的准备改变就会发生
So please consider the following
请考虑如下这些
Thank you
谢谢
Reckoning our role in the growth of the world's population is one thing
认识到我们在世界人口增长中的角色是一点
but there's another thing the world is changing in another way
此外还有另一点世界正以另一种方式在变化
a way reckoned not by the thousandth of millionth but by the thousandths of thousandths, the millionths
这不是通过十亿来衡量的而是通过百万来衡量的
This year we are officially over 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide above the earth in our atmosphere
今年官方数据显示地球大气中的二氧化碳已经达到百万分之400
our remarkable quality of life here in the developed world depends on electricity
发达国家的生活质量很大程度上都取决于电力
much of which is made by burning old fuel which produces carbon dioxide
而发电很多又来自于燃烧老式燃料这会产生很多二氧化碳
And here's some very bad news, everybody
这里有一则很坏的消息 大伙
