Katharine Hayhoe: The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it
凱薩琳.海荷: 對抗氣候變遷你能做的最重要的事:談論它
Katharine Hayhoe studies what climate change means to us in the places where we live. Full bio
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as an atmospheric science professor
the second most conservative city
his undergraduate geology class.
他在大學部開的地質課,
the lecture hall was cavernous and dark.
整座講堂空空落落又黑又暗。
of the carbon cycle
dozing or looking at their phones.
打瞌睡或看他們的手機。
for any questions.
and in a loud voice, he said,
fact of life here in the United States
一個悲哀的事實,
that climate is changing,
serious and even dangerous,
about science or even how smart we are
甚至我們有多聰明一點關係都沒有,
on the political spectrum.
我們在政治上選哪邊站。
a different answer
or conservative?
就給我們不同的讀值嗎?
that the planet is warming,
fossil fuels as soon as possible --
戒斷對石化燃料的依賴──
cut off their arm
any further excuse
and tell them what to do.
並告訴他們應該怎麼做。
but I don't want to fix it,"
這是一個真正的問題,
and nobody wants to be the bad guy.
"It's just a natural cycle."
「這只是個自然的循環。」
are just in it for the money."
sciencey-sounding smoke screens,
似是而非的科學煙霧彈,
the real reason for our objections,
with our ideology and our identity.
Where is global warming now?"
who says this thing is real,
這不是真的。」
like everybody is saying these myths.
好像每個人都在說這些迷思。
on Climate [Change] Communication
the country now for a number of years --
of people in the United States agree
其實有 70% 的美國人同意
that it will harm plants and animals,
the rubber starts to hit the road.
真相就會顯露。
will affect people in the United States.
它會影響美國人。
think it will affect us personally.
它會影響個人。
"Do you ever talk about this?"
「你曾經討論過這個問題嗎?」
United States say, "Never."
"Do you hear the media talk about this?"
「你是否聽過媒體討論過這個?」
doom-filled report.
極不樂觀的報告。
sciencey-sounding myths.
this vicious cycle?
才能打破這種惡性循環?
is the exact thing that we're not doing:
就是我們沒有做的事:
我要怎麼談論輻射效應,
about radiative forcing
in climate models?"
about more science;
for over 150 years.
150 years or more since the 1850s,
已經超過 150 年了嗎?
氣候科學家就首次發現,
coal and gas and oil
around the planet?
first formally warned a US president
已經過了 50 年。
the social science has taught us
社會科學已經教導我們,
on rejecting a certain set of facts,
來建立我們的身分,
is a personal attack.
rather than building a bridge.
about more science,
about more science,
with all the data and facts in our head,
why it matters to us,
hiking, biking, fishing, even hunting?
or national security?
I found to connect with people
建立關係最基本的方法,
this incredible planet that we live on
極美好的星球讓我們居住,
over every living thing on it.
that we are to care for and love
the impacts of poverty,
the values are that someone has,
figure out what makes them tick.
between the values they already have
就是把他們已有的價值觀
about a changing climate.
要關心氣候變遷連起來。
of conversations that I've had
成千上萬次之後,我真的相信,
person in the world
to care about a changing climate.
氣候變遷的價值觀。
through our conversation with them.
可以做得到的。
about a changing climate
about the future of my child.
where water is already scarce,
那裡的水資源已經很缺乏,
the availability of that water.
about a changing climate
a "threat multiplier."
是「威脅倍增器。」
and lack of access to clean water
無法取得乾淨的水,
that lead to refugee crises --
難民危機的政治危機──
and it exacerbates them,
而且還會使問題變本加厲,
at a Rotary Club,
that had the Four-Way Test on it.
他們有這個超大的標語,
這麼關心氣候變遷,
most about climate change,
the least to the problem
能否促進親善友誼?
would it build goodwill?
into the Four-Way Test,
of conservative businesspeople
with the most bemused look on his face.
about this whole global warming thing,
我不太確定這整個全球暖化的事,
they have to be genuine.
它們必須是真誠的。
a number of years ago,
came up and he said,
to get my foot in the door
about why climate change matters."
為什麼氣候變遷很重要。」
that you're part of,
with those people.
I'm an atheist," he said.
我是無神論者。」他說。
starting with a faith community
what you are involved in."
你參與什麼樣的活動。」
a community group
他參與的社團,
that he could start with.
a liberal tree hugger
自由開放的環保人士,
living on this planet.
活在地球上的人類。
affecting us today.
"sunny-day flooding."
being burned by wildfires.
to the South Pacific,
typhoons and cyclones,
or if we live in Syria,
supersize our droughts,
being affected by a changing climate.
We can talk impacts.
那我們來談衝擊。
because this thing is serious."
I'm a scientist, I know.
what is going to motivate us
that we need to fix this thing.
run away from the bear.
than the person beside us.
is rational hope.
我們需要的是理性的希望。
to recognize what's at stake.
什麼是利害攸關的。
but better than they are today.
比現在更糟,而是更好。
thing that we have to talk about
第二件重要的事,
accessible, attractive solutions.
silver bullet, as they say,
我們沒有萬靈丹,
that save us money
既能為我們省錢,
at the same time.
came with a switch beside the front door,
turn off everything except your fridge.
eating lower down the food chain
which at the global scale,
that we can do to fix this problem.
to talk to people about a changing climate
carbon footprint is my travel.
collect my invitations.
unless I have a critical mass
除非我收到了足夠多
10 or 15 talks in a given place --
of my carbon footprint
我的碳足跡衝擊減到最低。
three-quarters of the talks I give
"Well, we've never done that before."
I think it could work."
happening today around the world
已經發生在全世界的事,
of any state in the United States.
what can you talk about in Texas?"
你在德州還能談什麼?」
there's over 25,000 jobs
of our electricity
most of that wind,
in the United States, Fort Hood,
by wind and solar energy now,
over 150 million dollars.
超過一億五千萬美金。
the resources that we have?
沒有資源可用的人怎麼辦?
there are hundreds of millions of people
of energy except kerosine,
of new energy today is solar.
nonprofits, even corporations
非營利組織,甚至一般企業
new microfinancing schemes,
the power they need in increments,
所需單位的能源。
tens of thousands of units
已經分發了成千上萬塊面板
from Rwanda to Uganda.
包括盧安達及烏干達。
over 30 million hours of electricity
超過三千萬小時的電力,
of cell phone charging.
economies of China and India?
快速成長的經濟體又如何?
a little further down the road,
are right here today.
is essential to powering their future.
對於推動未來發展至關重要。
of billions of dollars in clean energy.
在乾淨能源上。
solar panels on the surface.
太陽能發電廠。
all the coal plants around Beijing.
北京附近所有的燃煤電廠。
incandescent light bulbs with LEDs,
seven billion dollars in energy costs.
70 億美元的能源費用。
their entire vehicle fleet.
to industrialize
就工業化的國家。
sitting at the bottom of a hill,
trying to roll it up the hill.
is already at the top of the hill.
of hands, maybe even billions on it,
so we can fix climate change in time?
才能及時解決氣候變遷?
right here, right now,
就在此時此刻,
than us climate scientists.
更了解這件事。
for the hope that we need,
主動尋找我們所需的希望,
with a conversation today.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Katharine Hayhoe - Climate scientistKatharine Hayhoe studies what climate change means to us in the places where we live.
Why you should listen
As Katharine Hayhoe writes: "I'm a climate scientist: I crunch the data, I analyze the models, and I help people like engineers and city managers and water planners prepare for the ways climate change affects all of us. I'm a professor in political science at Texas Tech University, where I direct the Climate Science Center. I'm also a lead author for the US National Climate Assessment; I host the PBS Digital Series Global Weirding; and I spend a lot of time talking to people about climate science, impacts, solutions and how they connect to our values. I've been named one of TIME's "100 Most Influential People," Fortune's "50 Greatest Leaders" and Foreign Policy's "100 Leading Global Thinkers."
"These are all tremendous honors, for which I'm enormously grateful. What means the most, though, is when just one person tells me sincerely that they had never cared about climate change before, or even thought it was real: but now, because of something they heard me say, they've changed their mind. That's what makes it all worthwhile."
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