＃TED-010＃第31周打卡

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The Earth is full

This Ted talk was published in 2012. 总的来说，这篇talk我觉得作者有点太悲观了。虽然事实上是如此，可是大家也都在努力去做嘛。利益为导向的人类，有着巨大的潜力。而且科技是不断发展的。希望能越来越好。

The Earth is full. It's full of us, it's full of our stuff, full of our waste, full of our demands. We've created a little too much stuff that our economy is nor bigger than its host, our planet.

Based in physics, chemistry and biology, many analyses draw the same conclusion - that we're living beyond our means.

The eminent scientists of the Global Footprint Network, e.g, calculated that we need about 1.5 Earths to sustain this economy.

However, we cannot stop economic growth.

Technology is amazing, and people are innovative. It is possible to get the human economy down from 150% to 100% of the Earth's capacity. The problem is we're just warming up this growth engine.

What happens when you operate a system past its limits and then keep on going at an ever-accelerating rate is that the system stops working and breaks down.

What if the oil and coal industries are finished?

Imagine China, India and Pakistan going to war as climate impacts generate conflict over food and water.

Imagine the Middle East without oil income, but with collapsing governments.

Imagine our highly-tuned, just-in-time food industry and our highly-stressed agricultural system failing and supermarket shelves emptying.

Imagine 30% unemployment in America as the global economy is gripped by fear and uncertainty.

Imagine what that means for us, our family, our friends, our personal financial security.

Imagine what it means for our person security as a heavily armed civilian population gets angrier and angrier about why this was allowed to happen.

Imagine what we'll tell our children when they as you, "so in 2012, Mom and Dad, what was it like when you'd had the hottest decade on record for the third decade in a row, when every scientific body in the world was saying you've got a major problem, when the oceans were acidifying, when oil and food prices were spiking, when they were rioting in the streets of London and occupying Wall Street? When the system was so clearly breaking down, Mom and Dad, what did you do, what were you thinking?"

How do you feel?

when the lights go out on the global economy

when your assumptions about the future fade away

We are in danger, all of us. Because we can see it at the door of our civilization.

Things will get ugly, and it will happen soon, in our lifetime. But we are more than capable of getting through everything that's coming.

But people have faith that humans can solve any problem, that technology is limitless. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

The only thing we need to change is how we think and how we feel.

We need to accept the fear and then we need to act:

1) need to act like the future depends on it

2) need to act like we only have one planet

we can choose life over fear.

We can do what we need to do, but it will take every one, every one of us.

eminent scientists : 杰出的，知名的

pesky: 讨厌的

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