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[Bjorn Lomborg][为全球问题订定先后次序]BjornLomborg_2005 1.What Id like to talk about is really the biggest problems in the world. 我今天想和大家谈的都是地球上最严重的问题。 2.Im not going to talk about The Skeptical Environmentalist -- probably thats also a good choice. 我不会谈到《持怀疑论的环保分子》这本书 虽然那未尝不是一个好选择。 3.(Laughter) But I am going talk about, what are the big problems in the world? （笑声） 我要说的， 是地球上最严重的问题是什么？ 4.And I must say, before I go on, I should ask every one of you to try and get out pen and paper because Im actually going to ask you to help me to look at how we do that. 在我继续之前，我想请在座每一位朋友， 拿出纸和笔， 因为我将会请大家和我一起试试，看我们是怎样找出答案的。 5.So get out your pen and paper. 所以请你拿出纸和笔。 6.Bottom line is, there is a lot of problems out there in the world. 我们的底线，是我们这个世界有很多问题。 7.Im just going to list some of them. 让我列举其中一些： 8.There are 800 million people starving. 全球有八亿人处于饥饿之中； 9.Theres a billion people without clean drinking water. 有十亿人没有清洁食水； 10.Two billion people without sanitation. 二十亿人没有基本卫生设施； 11.There are several million people dying of HIV and AIDS. 几百万人死于爱滋病毒及爱滋病； 12.The lists go on and on. 这个清单可以一直数下去， 13.Theres two billions of people who will be severely affected by climate change -- so on. 二十亿人会受到气候改变的严重影响 -- 等等， 等等。 14.There are many, many problems out there. 这个世界有很多很多的问题。 15.In an ideal world, we would solve them all, but we dont. 在一个完美的世界， 我们会解决所有的问题，可是实际上我们不会， 16.We dont actually solve all problems. 在现实世界，我们不会解决所有的问题。 17.And if we do not, the question I think we need to ask ourselves -- and thats why its on the economy session -- is to say, if we dont do all things, we really have to start asking ourselves, 既然我们不会解决所有的问题，那我们便要问问自己 -- 这就是为什么这场演讲被安排在经济时段-- 既然我们不会应付全部问题，我们就应该开始问自己， 18.which ones should we solve first? 我们应该先解决那些问题? 19.And thats the question Id like to ask you. 这就是今天我要问大家的问题。 20.If we had say, 50 billion dollars over the next four years to spend to do good in this world, where should we spend it? 设想如果我们有五百亿元，可以在未来四年， 用来为世界做点事，我