TED英文演说-这个十年需要“地球照片”来修复我们的星球中英文演讲稿.docx

第 第 PAGE 1 页 This decade calls for Earthshots to repair our planet 00:10 Hello, everyone. Growing up in my family gives you a certain sense of history. Im simply the latest in a line that can be traced back generations. This oak tree is close to Windsor Castle, which has been home to my family for over 900 years. Thirty-nine monarchs have lived here and enjoyed these beautiful surroundings. 00:33 Ive walked here many times myself, and it always amazes me that some of the trees planted here, living organisms, dependent on soil, rain and sunlight, were here as they laid the first stones of Windsor Castle. That makes some of the oaks here almost 1,000 years old. These trees germinated during the reign of William the Conqueror in 1066, from a simple acorn like this. By the time that Henry VIII lived here, theyd grown into mature, impressive giants. And amazingly, some of those very same trees still survive here today. Theyre a bit gnarled and hollowed-out, but theyre still very much alive. 01:21 While these oaks have been growing, around 35 billion people have lived their lives on our planet. Thats 35 billion lifetimes worth of hope, love, fear and dreams. In that time, humankind has invented air travel, vaccines and computers. Weve explored every part of the globe, sequenced the human genome and even escaped Earths atmosphere. Our speed of innovation has been incredible, but so, too, has the acceleration of our impact. 01:58 Over my grandmothers lifetime, the last 90 years or so, our impacts accelerated so fast that our climate, oceans, air, nature and all that depends on them are in peril. This oak has stood here for centuries, but never has it faced a decade like this. 02:20 We start this new decade knowing that it is the most consequential period in history. The science is irrefutable. If we do not act in this decade, the damage that we have done will be irreversible. And the effects felt not just by future generations but by all of us alive today. And whats