RobHopkins_2009G不用石油的转变世界.docxVIP

1.As a culture, we tell ourselves lots of stories about the future, and where we might move forward from this point. 在人类文明中，有很多关于未来的 故事， 也许正是这些故事激励我们前行。2.Some of those stories are that somebody is just going to sort everything out for us. 在一些故事中 有些人努力去收集和利用所有事物。3.Other stories are that everything is on the verge of unraveling. 在另一些故事中，所有事物都濒临灭亡。4.But I want to tell you a different story here today. 但是我今天将带给你们一个不同的故事。5.Like all stories, it has a beginning. 与所有故事一样，它也有一个开头。6.My work, for a long time, has been involved in education, in teaching people practical skills for sustainability, teaching people how to take responsibility 在很长一段时间，我一直潜心于教育事业， 教大家 可持续性实用技能， 比如7.for growing some of their own food, how to build buildings using local materials, how to generate their own energy, and so on. 在自家种菜， 利用本地的材料建造房子， 挖掘本地的能量源等等，这些都是为了帮助人们更好的承担责任。8.I lived in Ireland, built the first straw-bale houses in Ireland, and some cob buildings and all this kind of thing. 我生活在爱尔兰，在那儿我建造了第一个稻草屋， 和一些圆形建筑以及类似的。9.But all my work for many years was focused around the idea that sustainability means basically looking at the globalized economic growth model, 很多年来我的工作都集中在 一个想法--可持续性， 它意味着：着眼于 全球经济增长模型，10.and moderating what comes in at one end, and moderating the outputs at the other end. 既监控着自身就有的东西， 也监控着所产出排出的东西，11.And then I came into contact with a way of looking at things which actually changed that profoundly. 然后我就开始接触并以长远的目光观察 在实际中变化巨大的这一切。12.And in order to introduce you to that, Ive got something here that Im going to unveil, which is one of the great marvels of the modern age. 为了介绍清楚， 在这里我打算揭开 一个当代伟大奇迹的发现。13.And its something so astounding and so astonishing that I think maybe as I remove this cloth a suitable gasp of amazement might be appropriate. 它是如此惊天动地， 我想我还是先揭开它的面纱， 并好好喘口气，然后再告诉大家比较合适。14.If you could help me with that it would be fantastic. 如果你们能帮我一把，那就完美了。15.(Laughter) This is a liter of oil. （笑声） 这儿有一升石油。16.This bot