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Our feverish planet badly needs a cure. It was probably always too much to believe that human beings would be responsible stewar
Our feverish planet badly needs a cure. It was probably always too much to believe that human beings would be responsible stewar
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2017-03-15
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Our feverish planet badly needs a cure. It was probably always too much to believe that human beings would be responsible stewards of the planet. Yet make a mess we have. If droughts and wildfires, floods and crop failures, collapsing climate-sensitive species and the images of drowning polar bears didn’t quiet most of the remaining global-warming doubters, the hurricane-driven destruction of New Orleans did. This past year was the hottest on record in the US. The deceptively normal average temperature this winter masked record-breaking highs in December and record-breaking lows in February. That’s the sign not of a planet keeping an even strain but of one thrashing through the alternating chills and night sweats of a serious illness.
A crisis of this magnitude clearly calls for action that is both bottom-up and top-down. Though there is some debate about how much difference individuals can make, there is little question that the most powerful players— government and industry—have to take the lead. Still, individuals too can move the carbon needle. Cleaning up the wreckage left by our 250-year industrial bacchanal will require fundamental changes in a society hooked on its fossil fuels. Beneath the grass-roots action, larger tectonic plates are shifting. Science is attacking the problem more aggressively than ever. So is industry. So are architects and lawmakers and urban planners. The world is awakened to the problem in a way it never has been before.
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我们的星球正在发热,急需治疗。人类驾驭着地球发展的方向,承担着重大的责任,也许这样的想法会让人觉得难以承受。然而,我们的确把地球搞得一团糟。干旱、森林大火、洪水、庄稼歉收、易受气候影响的物种灭绝、北极熊溺水而亡——如果以上种种都不能使怀疑全球变暖的人缄口的话,飓风给新奥尔良带来的灾难应该能使他们噤声。过去的一年是美国有史以来最炎热的一年。今年冬天的温度似乎处于平均水平,不算反常,但是欺骗性的平均数据掩盖了两个事实:12月的温度创下历史新高,2月的温度则创下了历史新低。这些迹象表明地球已经失去了理性的控制,而是重病在身,时而全身发冷,时而夜间盗汗,跌跌撞撞,艰难支撑。 一场危机如此惊人,显然需要我们采取行动,由上至下,由下至上,积极应对。个人的做法能够产生多大影响,至今仍有争论,但是政府和工业应该率先行动,却是几乎没有疑义的。当然,每一个人都能够对碳的消耗产生一定作用。要清理过去250年工业的迅速发展所带来的问题,需要整个社会进行根本性的变革,改变目前依赖煤、石油、天然气等矿物燃料的习惯。推动着普通大众行动起来的更大的板块正在移动。科学界更为积极地应对全球变暖问题,工业也很关注,建筑师、立法者、城市规划人员纷纷加入其中。全世界以前所未有的认真态度关注着全球变暖的问题。
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