Every silver lining has a cloud. The technologies thatoffer human beings comforts and opportunities thatwould have been unimaginable two centuries agoultimately depend on an abundance of energy. Fireis the source of that energy. But the burning offossil fuels, from which we gain so much, alsoreleases the carbon dioxide that threatens todestabilise the climate.
每一线光明都伴随一片乌云。技术给人类带来的舒适生活和机遇,是两百年前无法想象的,这些技术从根本上来说都要依赖大量的能量。而火是能量的来源。但化石燃料的燃烧虽然给我们带来许多好处,其释放的二氧化碳却会威胁气候稳定。
For some, the answer to this challenge is to embrace poverty. But humanity will not — andshould not be expected to — give up the prosperity that some already enjoy and othersgreatly desire. The answer lies instead in breaking the links between prosperity and fossil fuels,fossil fuels and emissions, and emissions and the climate. We must not reject technology, buttransform it.
有些人认为,解决这一问题的办法就是安于贫困。但人类不会——也不应当——放弃一些人已经享有、而其他人还极其渴望的繁荣。相反,解决办法在于打破繁荣与化石燃料之间、化石燃料与排放之间以及排放与气候之间的联系。我们决不能抵制技术,而是要进行技术变革。
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