凯拉·奈特莉 | 呼吁为全球变暖采取行动

These are remarkable times. We are living through a crucial moment in the history of our planet, yet we seem to charge ahead towards a catastrophic future rather than seizing the opportunity to pause and change our ways.

这是非同寻常的时代。我们的地球正经历着史上的一个关键时刻，但我们似乎不是抓住机会停下并做出改变，而是正在朝着灾难性的未来前进。

Human activity currently generates an excess of carbon emissions which are released into the atmosphere causing higher temperatures, which melts ice sheets and glaciers, contributing to rising sea levels and floods.

目前人类生产活动的碳排放量过多，释放到大气中，使气温上升，冰盖和冰川融化，进而导致海平面上升和洪水泛滥。

Right now, the planet is already 1.2℃ warmer than it was 120 years ago. Scientists warn that we need to prevent the temperature from rising more than 0.5℃, and we need to act, now.

现在，地球气温已经比120年前高出1.2摄氏度。科学家警告说，我们需要防止气温再升高0.5摄氏度，所以我们需要立即采取行动。

Or we will live to see the pollution of oceans and air, shortages of food and fresh water, the extinction of many species, the disappearance of low lying cities and islands, mass migrations and social unrest.

否则我们将看到海洋和空气污染，食物和淡水短缺，大量物种灭绝，地势低洼的城市和岛屿消失，大规模移民和社会动荡。

Millions of casualties due to floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and disease. Our children will grow up in this devastated world, what will we say when they ask the science and data were all there for everyone to see, why didn’t you stop this, while you still could?

洪水，风暴，热浪，干旱和疾病将造成数百万人的伤亡。我们的孩子将在这个灾难重重的世界中长大，当他们问起科学数据都在那，所有人都可以看到，而为什么我们当时却没有采取行动时，我们该怎么回答呢？

Our government must enter crisis mode before it’s too late, urgently investing in and implementing policies to reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Let’s choose a different path right now, so we can leave a world worth living in for our children.

趁现在还来得及，我们的政府必须进入危机模式，加快投入和实施减少大气碳排放的政策。只有现在选择一条不同的道路，才能为我们的孩子留下一个值得生存的世界。