TED英文演说-印度如何才能实现世界上最雄心勃勃的能源转型中英文演讲稿.docx

第 第 PAGE 1 页 How India could pull off the worlds most ambitious energy transition 00:10 The air smelled smoky and sulfurous. I just stepped off a rickety train to Korba, deep in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, and home to a dozen coal power plants and Indias largest open-pit coal mine. 00:24 There it is, a literal hellscape, complete with infernal fires that burn 24/7. But, in Korba, coal is life. Most people I talked to accepted that the coal economy powers their livelihoods, but it is slowly killing them. 00:41 Heres a community next door to a coal plant. They wake every morning to homes coated in a fresh layer of ash from the smoke that the plant belches. Korba is one of the most critically polluted places on the planet. And its not just coal country thats hurting, all of India has a deadly addiction to fossil fuels. Indias home to 22 of the worlds 30 most polluted places on the planet. In Delhi, the capital, residents lose 9.4 years off their life expectancy on average. In 2020, the skies briefly cleared during the coronavirus lockdown, as cars stayed off the roads, factories shuttered and power plants ramped down. But the economic dislocation has put 400 million Indians at risk of falling deeper into poverty. 01:28 India should not have to sacrifice development for breathable air. There is a better way. For India has a historic opportunity to industrialize using clean energy. That opportunity is why I moved halfway around the world from the US to India to join ReNew Power, Indias largest renewable energy company, as CTO. After two years of crisscrossing the country, Ive seen green shoots everywhere, of a budding clean energy boom, daring me to hope that India can pull off the worlds most important energy transition. Its choices will make or break the worlds fight against climate change, for if India chooses fossil fuels to power its growing economy, its carbon emissions could explode, making it the worlds number one emitter later this century. 02:15 S