难以忽视的真相 An Inconvenient Truth（2/2）

he threat of cliate crisis—a threat that is real, risg, ient and universal.The penalties fn this challenge are se and grog, and at so near pot would be unstaable and unreverable.For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the reag question is only this: Have we the will to act vigoroly andti, or will we rea iprisoned by a dangero ilsion?

Mahata Gandhi awakehe rgest deocra earth and fed a shared resolve with what he called “Satyagraha”—or “truth force”.

Truth also has the power to uniteand bridge the distance beeen “” and “we”, creatg the basis for on effort and shared responsibility.

There is an Afri proverb that says, “If you want to go quickly, go alone.If you want to go together.”We o go far, quickly.

We t abando dividual, isoted, private as are the aheyand do help.But they will not takefar enough without llective a.At the sa ti, we t ehatobilizg globally, we do not vite the establishnt of ideologifority and a new lock-step “is”.

That ans adoptg prciples, vaes, ws and treaties that release creativity and itiative at every level of societyultifold respog ncurrently and spontaneoly.

This new nsess requires expandg the possibilities herentall huanity.The novators who will devise a new way to harhe sun’s energy for pennies or vent a’s carboive ay liveLagos or Mubai or Montevideo.We t ehat entrepreneurs aors everywhere on the globe have the ce to ge the world.

When we unite for a oral purpose that is aly good and true, the spiritual energy unleashedtransfor .The geion that defeated fascis throughout the worldthe 1940s found,risg to et their aweso challehat they had gaed the oral authority and long-ter vision to unch the Marshall Pn, the United Nations, and a new level of global operation and fht that unified Europe and facilitated the ergence of deocrad prosperityGerany, Japan, Italy and uch of the world.One of their visionary leaders said, “It is ti we steered by the stars and not by the lights of every passg ship.”

I year of that war, you gave the Peace Prize to a an fro y hotown of o thoand people, Carthage, Tennessee.Cordell Hull was described by Frankl Roosevelt as the “Father of the United Nations”.He iration ao y own father, who followed Hullthe gress and the U.S.Senate andhis itnt to world pead global operation.

My parents spoke often of Hull, alwaystones of reverend adiratio weeks ago, when you annouhis prize, the deepest eotion I felt was when I saw the headley hotoer that siply noted I had won the sa prize that Cordell Hull had won.In that ont, I knew what y father and other would have felt were they alive.

Jt as Hull’s geion found oral authorityrisg to solve the world crisis caed by fascis, so toowe fd reatest opportunityrisg to solve the cliate crisis.In the Kanji characters edboth Chese and Japanese, “crisis” is written with o sybols, the first ang “danger”, the send “opportunity”.By fad reovg the danger of the cliate crisis, we have the opportunity to ga the oral authority and vision to vastly crease our oacity to solve other crises that have been too long ignored.

We t uand the ions beeen the cliate crisis and the afflis of poverty, hunger, HIV-aids and other pandeics.As these probles are lked, so too t be their sotio beg by akg the on rescue of the global environnt the tral anizg prciple of the world unity.

Fifteen years ago, I ade that case at the “Earth Suit”Rio de Janeiro.Ten years ago, I preseKyoto.This week, I will urge the delegatesBali to adopt a bold andate for a treaty that establishes a universal global cap on eissions ahe arketeissions tradg to effitly allocate resources to the ost effective opportunities for speedy red.

Heads of state should et earlyyear to review what lishedBali and take personal responsibility for addressg this crisis.It is not unreasoo ask, given the gravity of our circtahat these heads of state et every three onths until the treaty is pleted.

We also need a oratoriu oruk to the people, progressively, a to the ws of eaation,ways that shift the burden of taxation fro eploynt to poltion.This is by far the ost effective and siplest way to aelerate sotions to this crisis.

The world needs an alliance—especially of those nations that weigh heaviestthe scales where earth isthe bance.I sate Europe and Japan for the steps they’ve take years to et the challenge, and the new governntAtralia, which has ade solvg the cliate crisis its first priority.

But the oute will be decisively fenced by o nations that are now failg to do enough: the Uates and Cha.While India is als fastiporta should be absotely clear that it is the est CO2 eitters—ost of all, y own untry—that will o ake the boldest oves, or stand aountable before history for their faire to act.

Both untries should s g the other’s behavior as an exce for staleate and stead develop an agenda for utual survivala shared global environnt.

These are the st few years of decision, but theybe the first years of a bright and hopeful future if we do what we t.No one should believe a sotion will be found without effort, without st, without ge.Letaowledge that if we wish to redee squai and speak aga with oral authority, then these are the hard truths:

The way ahead is difficult.The outer boundary of what we currently believe is feasible is still far short of what we actually t do.We are standg at the ost fateful forkthat path.So I want to end as I began, with a vision of o futures—each a palpable possibility—and with a prayer that we will see with vivid crity the y of choosg beeen those o futures, and the urgency of akg the right choiow.

The young people will knock the door of the future.So letre, and say together: “We have a purpose.We are any.For this purpose we will rise, and we will act.”

Thank you!