[임수향] David Attenborough, People's Advocate for #COP26

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Title: David Attenborough, People's Advocate for #COP26, Address to World Leaders | Climate Action 

Speaker: David Attenborough

Event: the opening of the World Leaders Summit on Climate Change in Glasgow

Date: Nov 3, 2021

Word Count: 337

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7EpiXViSIQ (01:56 - 05:23)

Glossary: X

Script

The global temperature has not wavered over this period by more than plus or minus one degree Celsius — until now. Our burning of fossil fuels, our destruction of nature, our approach to industry, construction and learning are releasing carbon into the atmosphere at an unprecedented pace and scale. We are already in trouble. The stability we all depend on is breaking.

This story is one of inequality as well as instability. Today, those who've done the least to cause this problem are being the hardest hit. Ultimately, all of us will feel the impact, some of which are now unavoidable.

Is this how our story is due to end? A tale of the smartest species doomed by that all-too-human characteristic of failing to see the bigger picture in pursuit of short-term goals?

Perhaps the fact that the people most affected by climate change are no longer some imagined future generations but young people alive today — perhaps that will give us the impetus we need to rewrite our story, to turn this tragedy into a triumph.

We are, after all, the greatest problem-solvers to have ever existed on Earth. We now understand this problem. We know how to stop the number rising and put it in reverse. We must recapture billions of tons of carbon from the air. We must fix our sights on keeping one and a half degrees within reach.

A new industrial revolution, powered by millions of sustainable innovations, is essential — and is indeed already beginning. We will all share in the benefits: affordable clean energy, healthy air, and enough food to sustain us all.

Nature is a key ally. Whenever we restore the wild, it will recapture carbon and help us bring back balance to our planet.

And as we work to build a better world, we must acknowledge that no nation has completed its development, because no advanced nation is yet sustainable. All have a journey still to complete, so that all nations have a good standard of living and a modest footprint.