难以忽视的真相 An Inconvenient Truth（1/2）

穆罕默德·尤努斯 / Muhaad Yun

穆罕默德·尤努斯（1940—），孟加拉穷人银行家、经济学家、格拉明银行（又称孟加拉乡村银行）创始人。曾留学美国，获得经济学硕士和博士学位。回国后执教于吉大港大学，创办格拉明银行。该银行开创和发展了“微额贷款”的服务，专门提供给因贫穷而无法获得传统银行贷款的创业者，因此使数百万人受益，为消除世界贫困做出了重要贡献。

Acethe Hole

Uand these new words before you read this article.

1.nfront [k?n?fr?nt] v.遭遇；比较；面对

2.ext [?k?st??k??n] n.消灭；消失；废止

3.fe [f?:d?] v.伪造；做锻工；锻造

4. [k?n?si:t] n.自负；狂妄；幻想

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, honorable bers of the Nian Nobel Coittee, Excellencies, Ladies alen,

I have a purpose here today.It is a purpose I have tried to serve for any years.I have prayed that God would showa way to aoplish it.

Sotis, without warng, the future knocks on our door with a precio and paful vision of what ight be.One hundred aeen years ago, a wealthy ventor read his own obituary, istakenly published years before his death.Wrongly believg the ventor had jt died, a neer prted a harsh judgnt of his life, s work, unfairly belg hi “The Mert of Death” becae of his vention—dynaite.Shaken by this ion, the ventor ade a fateful choice to serve the cae of peace.

Seven years ter, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his na.

Seven years ago toorrow, I read y own political obituarya judgnt that seed toharsh and istaken—if not preature.But that unwele verdict alsht a precio if paful gift: an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve y purpose.

Uedly, that quest has broughthere.Even though I fear y words ot atch this ont, I pray what I a feelgy heart will be unicated clearly enough that those who hearwill say, “We t act.”

We, the huan species, are nfrontg a pary ergency—a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gatherg oo aructive 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—though not all of its nsequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly.

So today, we duped another seventy illion tons of global-oltion to the th shell of atosphere surroundg our p, as if it were an open sewer.And toorroill dup a slightly rger aount, with the cuutive rations n ore and ore heat fro the sun.As a result, the earth has a fever.And the fever is risg.The experts have toldit is not a passg affli that will heal by itself.We asked for a send opion.And a third.And a fourth.And the nsistent ed with creasg ar, is that sothg basic is wrong.

I few onths, it has been harder and harder to isterpret the signs that our world is spng out of kilter.Major citiesNorth and South Arica, Asia and Atralia are nearly out of water due to assive droughts and ltg gciers.Desperate farrs are losg their livelihoods.Peoplesthe frozen Arctid on low-lyg Pacifids are pnng evacuations of pces they have long called ho.Ued wildfires have forced a half illion people fro their hosory and caed a national ergency that alost brought down the governntanother.Cliate refugees have igrated to areas already habited by people with different cultures, religions, and traditions, creasg the potential for nflict.Stroorsthe Pacifid Atntic have threatened whole cities.Millions have been dispced by assive floodgSouth Asia, Mexi, aeen untriesAfrica.As teperature extres have creased, tens of thoands have lost their lives.We are recklessly burng and clearg our forests and drivg ore and ore species to ext.The very web of life on which we depend is beg ripped and frayed.

We eo cae all this destru, jt as Alfred Nobel ehat dynaite be ed fg war.He had hoped his vention would proote huan progress.We shared that sa worthy goal when we began burng assive quantities of al, then oil and thane.

Seventy years ter, y teacher, Roger Revelle, and his lleague, Dave Keelg, began to precisely dot the creasg CO2 levels day by day.But u other fors of poltion, CO2 is visible, tasteless and odorless—which has helped keep the truth about what it is dog to our cliate out of sight and out of d.Moreover, the catastrophe now threatengis ued—aehe ued with the iprobable.

In the years sce this prize was first awarded, the eionship beeen huankd and the earth has been radically transford.And still, we have reaed rgely oblivio to the ipact of our cuutive as.

More than o decades ago, stists calcuted that nuclear war uld throw so uch debris and soke to the air that it would block life—givg sunlight fro our atosphere, cag a “er”.Their eloquent warngs hereOslo helped galvahe world’s resolve to halt the nuclear ars race.

Now sce is warngthat if we do not quickly reduce the global oltion that is trappg so uch of the heat our p norally radiates back out of the atosphere, we aredangera pera “carbon sur”.

We t quickly obilize our civilization with the urgend resolve that has previoly been seen only when nations obilized for war.They were calls upon the urage, generosity and strength of entire peoples, citizens of every css and ndition who were ready to stand agast the threat once asked to do so.Our ehose tis calcuted that free people would not rise to the challehey were, of urse, catastrophically wrong.

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