阿尔戈尔和平演讲(转).doc

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen.尊贵的国王陛下，尊贵各位殿下，尊敬的各位瑞典诺贝尔学会的各位会员们，诸位阁下，女士们先生们，I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it. 我来这里有一个目的，我已经为这个目的奋斗了许多年，我不断向上帝祈祷，祈求上帝能指引我找到一条实现它的道路。Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago, a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his lifes work, unfairly labeling him The Merchant of Death because of his invention dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation, the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace. 有的时候，在毫无预告的条件下，未来会叩响我们的房门，带来了珍贵而让人痛苦的未来景象。119年前，一个富有的发明家在报纸上看到了自己的讣告。报纸错误的在发明家真正去世前的许多年刊登了发明家的讣告。错误的以为发明家已经离开人世，一份报纸对于发明家的生平惊醒了极为严厉的评价，极为不公的将这个发明家定义为：死亡商人，因为他发明了炸药。发明家被这指责所震动，他做出了一个极为重要的决定：为和平事业而不懈努力。Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.七年后，阿尔弗雷德诺贝尔以自己的名义设立许多奖项，其中就包括我现在获得的这个奖项。Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious if painful gift: an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose. Unexpectedly, that quest has brought me here. Even though I fear my words cannot match this moment, I pray what I am feeling in my heart will be communicated clearly enough that those who hear me will say, We must act. 在七年前的12月11号，我也看到了自己的政治讣告，这份讣告是从一份对于我来说残酷和不公正的判决中读到的。这份判决是那么的为时过早。虽然这份不受欢迎的判决给我带来的痛苦，但也带来了弥足珍贵的收获：一个寻找全新的方式来实现我的目的的机会。出乎我的意料之外，这份对新方式的追求探索把我带到了这里。尽管我觉得现在可能词不达意，但是我祈祷我心中所想的，今天在场的所有人都能理解明白，大家都能不约而同的说这样一句话：“我们必须行动起来！”We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency C a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here. But there is hopeful news as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst C though not all C of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly.我们人类正在面临一场全球性的危机：一场威胁到全体人类文明的危机正在积聚力量。即使在我们相聚在这里讨论对策的时候，这个危险正在积聚破坏的力量，让人感到不详的预兆。但是也有一个好消息，我们能够应对这场危机，避免其中最坏的结果，尽管不是全部的结果。只要我们能够大胆果断的采取迅速的行动。However, despite a growing number of honorable exceptions, too many of the worlds leaders are still best described in the words Winston Churchill applied to those who ignored Adolf Hitlers threat: They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent. 但是除了一小部分值得我们称道的例外情况之外，尽管这部分例外越来越多。绝大多数的世界领导人还是在哪里无动于衷，他们的行为用温斯顿丘吉尔的话来形容再合适不过，丘吉尔的这句话本来是用来形容当时欧洲那些无视希特勒纳粹威胁的领导人的。“他们陷入了奇怪的自相矛盾之中，议而不决，决而不行，当断不断，不下定决心，漂浮不定，实力强大却那么软弱可欺”So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer. And tomorrow, we will dump a slightly larger amount, with the cumulative concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the sun. 所以今天我们将7千万吨温室气体排放到大气层之中，这一层包裹地球的薄薄的大气层被我们当成了公共下水道。明天我们会排放比现在更多的温室气体到大气层中，温室集体在大气中越聚越大，截留了越来越多的太阳光中的能量。As a result, the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising. The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself. We asked for a second opinion. And a third. And a fourth. And the consistent conclusion, restated with increasing stress, is that something basic is wrong. We are what is wrong, and we must make it right.因此现在地球正在发烧，发烧的温度还在越来越高。科学家们已经告诉我们这不是一个已经过去的苦难，可以自行痊愈，我们考虑再三，向许多人寻求意见却不做决定。不断重复的结论，给我们不断的警告，一些根本性的东西错了：我们就是这个错误，我们必须自己改正这个错误。Last September 21, as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported with unprecedented distress that the North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff. One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study, to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week, warns it could happen in as little as 7 years.Seven years from now.去年九月21号，当北半球离太阳越来越远的时候，科学家以前所未有的沮丧对我们报告说，北极冰盖正在“悬崖跌落的速度迅速减少”，曾经有一个研究表明北极的冰盖将在22年之内完全的消失，另外一个新的研究，本周晚些时候将由美国海军的研究人员向社会公布，警告我们说北极冰盖可能在七年之中完全消失，从现在开始的七年之后。In the last few months, it has been harder and harder to misinterpret the signs that our world is spinning out of kilter. Major cities in North and South America, Asia and Australia are nearly out of water due to massive droughts and melting glaciers. Desperate farmers are losing their livelihoods. Peoples in the frozen Arctic and on low-lying Pacific islands are planning evacuations of places they have long called home. Unprecedented wildfires have forced a half million people from their homes in one country and caused a national emergency that almost brought down the government in another. Climate refugees have migrated into areas already inhabited by people with different cultures, religions, and traditions, increasing the potential for conflict. Stronger storms in the Pacific and Atlantic have threatened whole cities. Millions have been displaced by massive flooding in South Asia, Mexico, and 18 countries in Africa. As temperature extremes have increased, tens of thousands have lost their lives. We are recklessly burning and clearing our forests and driving more and more species into extinction. The very web of life on which we depend is being ripped and frayed.在过去的几个月中，越来越多的证据已经向我们证明，地球已经越来越反常。由于持续的干旱和不断融化的冰川，南北美洲的城市和亚洲与澳洲的都市已经接近处于断水的状态。绝望的农民失去了他们的生计，居住在北极冰原上的人们和居住在低洼的太平洋岛屿上的居民正在计划撤离，离开他们长久生活的家园。史无前例的火灾迫使一个国家接近五十万的人口被迫撤离家园，造成另一个国家陷入紧急状态，差点使整个国家陷入动荡。气候难民被迫移民到其他地区，那里已经有属于不同文化，宗教和传统的人口居住，这样增加了发生冲突的可能性。太平洋上的台风和大西洋上的飓风威力越来越大，威胁到城市的安全。居住在南美洲，墨西哥和非洲十八个国家的，数以百万记得人口因为暴风雨不得不流离失所。极端的温度不断刷新纪录，越来越多的人口因此而丧命。我们现在正在肆无忌惮的焚烧和开垦我们的森林，使越来越多的物种灭绝，人类所赖以生存的生物链被我们肆意破坏。We never intended to cause all this destruction, just as Alfred Nobel never intended that dynamite be used for waging war. He had hoped his invention would promote human progress. We shared that same worthy goal when we began burning massive quantities of coal, then oil and natural gas.我们从来没有希望造成这种破坏性的结果，就像当初阿里弗莱德诺贝尔发明炸药的时候不希望炸药被用于战争一样。他原本希望自己的发明可以促进人类文明进步。我们也怀着同样高尚的目的，开始消耗大量的煤炭，石油和天然气。But unlike most other forms of pollution, CO2 is invisible, tasteless, and odorless C which has helped keep the truth about what it is doing to our climate out of sight and out of mind. Moreover, the catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented C and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. 但是和其他的污染物质不一样的是，CO2无色无味，也无法目测。这些都是我们很容易的无视和回避它的危害性和对我们气候的破坏性。更重要的是，我们现在面临的危机是前所未有，我们常常把前所未有和没有可能混为一谈。We also find it hard to imagine making the massive changes that are now necessary to solve the crisis. And when large truths are genuinely inconvenient, whole societies can, at least for a time, ignore them. Yet as George Orwell reminds us: Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. 我们同样发现，为了应对这场危机所需要采取的大规模行动超出我们的想象。当重要的事实真相让人十分难以接受和面对的时候，整个社会至少可以在一段时间内回避这个问题。但是正如George Orwell提醒我们的：“早晚有一天，那些和现实相违背的错误思想，会在战场上（不攻自破）”Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on the earth itself. Now, we and the earths climate are locked in a relationship familiar to war planners: Mutually assured destruction. 事实上，在毫不知情的条件下，我们正在和地球进行着一场战争，人类和地球的关系被锁定在一个僵局中，就像很多战略家所熟悉的名词那样：“相互确保毁灭”。More than two decades ago, scientists calculated that nuclear war could throw so much debris and smoke into the air that it would block life-giving sunlight from our atmosphere, causing a nuclear winter. Their eloquent warnings here in Oslo helped galvanize the worlds resolve to halt the nuclear arms race. 二十多年前，科学家计算得出，核战争会将大量的灰尘和烟雾投射到大气之中，这样会将做为生命之源的阳光隔绝，造成“核冬天”。他们的结论是那么的雄辩和无可反驳，推动了全球抑制核军备竞赛的决心，就在奥斯陆这里。Now science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent carbon summer. 现在科学家警告我们，如果人类不迅速减少大气中的温室气体污染的排放，温室气体会积聚越来越多的热量，这些热量本来应该被反射出大气层之外，我们极有可能会造成一个永久的“碳夏天”。We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal struggle. 我们必须迅速的动员起来，以之前国家动员起来应对的战争的那种紧迫感和决心动员起来。这些应对战争的全民总动员取得了成功，这是因为他们的领导人在最危急的时刻，面对一场旷日持久而又关乎生死的挑战，释放出来的蓬勃的斗志和勇气，满怀希望和胸有成竹的豪言壮语。These were not comforting and misleading assurances that the threat was not real or imminent; that it would affect others but not ourselves; that ordinary life might be lived even in the presence of extraordinary threat; that Providence could be trusted to do for us what we would not do for ourselves.这些都不是保证，保证这个危险不是真实的或者并不严重，这样的保证会让我们麻痹和产生错误的幻想。也不是这个危险会影响别人而不会影响我们的保证，也不是即使遇到了超乎寻常的危险，普通人的生活也还是可以继续下去的保证，更不是上帝可以做到我们自己所力不能及的事情的保证，这一切都是错误的。No, these were calls to come to the defense of the common future. They were calls upon the courage, generosity and strength of entire peoples, citizens of every class and condition who were ready to stand against the threat once asked to do so. Our enemies in those times calculated that free people would not rise to the challenge; they were, of course, catastrophically wrong. 不，它们是要求我们去保护我们的共同命运的召唤，是对所有人类的勇气、慷慨和力量的召唤，召唤所有做好准备，一旦有需要，就会为应对共同危险而努力的人类，不分阶级和其他情况。在战争时代，我们的敌人错误的以为自由的人民不能团结起来应对挑战，他们犯了这个致命的错误，最终失败。Now comes the threat of climate crisis C a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?现在全球变暖的气候危机已经是铁板钉钉的，日益严重的，迫在眉睫的同时又是影响广泛的。再一次，现在是最危急的时刻。无视这个挑战的后果将是极为严重而且是愈演愈烈的，在某种程度上，后果将是不可持续和不可逆转的。现在我们还有能力来选择我们的命运，现在剩下的问题只有一个：“我们有没有应对危机而采取及时采取行动，不懈努力的决心呢，还是我们是不是将继续被一个致命的错觉而迷惑？”There is an African proverb that says, If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. We need to go far, quickly.有一句来自非洲的谚语说：“同行行远，独行行速”，我们既要行远也要行速。When we unite for a moral purpose that is manifestly good and true, the spiritual energy unleashed can transform us. The generation that defeated fascism throughout the world in the 1940s found, in rising to meet their awesome challenge, that they had gained the moral authority and long-term vision to launch the Marshall Plan, the United Nations, and a new level of global cooperation and foresight that unified Europe and facilitated the emergence of democracy and prosperity in Germany, Japan, Italy and much of the world. One of their visionary leaders said, It is time we steered by the stars and not by the lights of every passing ship. 当我们为了一个显而易见高尚和真实的道德原因而团结起来的时候，由此而产生的巨大精神力量会改变我们。在上世纪四十年代的人们团结一致打败了纳粹法西斯势力。为了应对他们所面临的巨大挑战，他们处在道德权威，拥有远见卓识，实施了马歇尔计划，建立了联合国，推动了更高程度的国际合作和互动。这些促成了欧洲的联合，促进了德国，日本和意大利和世界其他很多地区的民主与繁荣。其中一位富有远见卓识的领袖人物曾经说过：“现在是用天上的星光来为我们指引方向而不是像以前一样依靠过往的船舶。”Just as Hulls generation found moral authority in rising to solve the world crisis caused by fascism, so can we find our greatest opportunity in rising to solve the climate crisis. In the Kanji characters used in both Chinese and Japanese, crisis is written with two symbols, the first meaning danger, the second opportunity. By facing and removing the danger of the climate crisis, we have the opportunity to gain the moral authority and vision to vastly increase our own capacity to solve other crises that have been too long ignored. We must understand the connections between the climate crisis and the afflictions of poverty, hunger, HIV-Aids and other pandemics. As these problems are linked, so too must be their solutions. We must begin by making the common rescue of the global environment the central organizing principle of the world community. 正如Cordell Hull的那一代人面对法西斯纳粹的威胁，而不畏凶险的努力奋斗，同样我们也应该以同样的勇气和决心来应对这场气候危机。在中国和日本使