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Unfortunately, I heard the billionaire Steve Forbes,on Fox News, saying exactly the same thing, but seriously.
不幸的是，我也曾聽到億萬富翁史蒂夫?福布斯在福克斯新聞這樣說過，
He was told about the rise of the ocean,and he said,I find it absurd to change my behavior today for something that will happen in a hundred years.
當(dāng)談到海平面上升問題，他義正言辭地說，為一百年后發(fā)生的事情而改變自己今天的所作所為，這簡直是荒謬的。
So if you don't care for future generations,just go for it.
既然你不為后代著想，就隨你去吧。
So one of the main challenges of our times is to reconcile three time scales:
當(dāng)今我們面臨的主要挑戰(zhàn)是協(xié)調(diào)三個時間維度的矛盾：
the short term of the economy,the ups and downs of the stock market, the end-of-the-year accounts;the midterm of the quality of life what is the quality every moment of our life, over 10 years and 20 years?
短期的經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展問題，如股市的漲跌，年終審計；中期的生活質(zhì)量問題,未來10年，20年，我們生活的質(zhì)量如何？
and the long term of the environment.
以及長期的環(huán)境問題。
When the environmentalists speak with economists,it's like a schizophrenic dialogue, completely incoherent.
環(huán)境學(xué)家和經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家對話聽起來就像是精神分裂患者的對話， 絲毫沒有關(guān)聯(lián)。
They don't speak the same language.
他們沒有共同語言。
Now, for the last 10 years, I went around the world meeting economists, scientists, neuroscientists, environmentalists,philosophers, thinkers in the Himalayas, all over the place.
過去十年，我游遍世界，與經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家、科學(xué)家、 神經(jīng)學(xué)家、環(huán)境學(xué)家、哲學(xué)家和喜馬拉雅地區(qū)的思想者對話。
It seems to me, there's only one concept that can reconcile those three time scales.
我意識到，只有一個理念能協(xié)調(diào)那三個時間維度的矛盾，
It is simply having more consideration for others.
即多為他人考慮一些。
If you have more consideration for others, you will have a caring economics,where finance is at the service of society and not society at the service of finance.
如果你能為他人多考慮一些， 我們就會擁有彼此關(guān)懷的社會，經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展為社會服務(wù)，而不是社會為經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展服務(wù)；
You will not play at the casino with the resources that people have entrusted you with.
你就不會辜負(fù)社會對你的信任，揮霍資源，在賭場尋歡作樂；
If you have more consideration for others,you will make sure that you remedy inequality, that you bring some kind of well-being within society,in education, at the workplace.
如果你能為他人多考慮一些，你就會致力于消除不平等，將善良與恩惠帶給社會，帶給教育，帶給工作。
Otherwise, a nation that is the most powerful and the richest but everyone is miserable, what's the point?
否則，國家繁榮而富強(qiáng)，生活卻不堪入目，這樣有什么意義呢？
And if you have more consideration for others,you are not going to ransack that planet that we have and at the current rate, we don't have three planets to continue that way.
如果你能為他人多考慮一些，你就不會像現(xiàn)在這樣掠取地球的資源，沒有三個地球供你揮霍。
So the question is,okay, altruism is the answer, it's not just a novel ideal,
問題是，好，答案是利他思想，這并不是一個新概念，
but can it be a real, pragmatic solution?
但利他思想可以轉(zhuǎn)化為真實(shí)可行的出路嗎？
And first of all, does it exist, true altruism, or are we so selfish?
首先要弄明白的是，真正的利他思想存在嗎？還是我們都是自私的？
So some philosophers thought we were irredeemably selfish.
有些哲學(xué)家認(rèn)為我們的自私無可救藥。
But are we really all just like rascals?
但我們真的就這么像無賴嗎？
That's good news, isn't it?
好消息是，不是嗎？
Many philosophers, like Hobbes, have said so.
很多哲學(xué)家，如霍布斯，給出的答案是：不是。
But not everyone looks like a rascal.
并不是所有人都像無賴。
Or is man a wolf for man?
人對于他人就像豺狼嗎？
But this guy doesn't seem too bad.
但這個人看起來不那么壞，
He's one of my friends in Tibet.
他是我在西藏的好朋友，
He's very kind.
他很和善。
So now, we love cooperation.
我要說的是，我們熱愛合作。
There's no better joy than working together, is there?
沒什么比合作帶來更多的幸福感，沒錯吧？
And then not only humans.
不只是人類。
Then, of course, there's the struggle for life, the survival of the fittest, social Darwinism.
當(dāng)然，生活也有艱辛的一面，適者生存，達(dá)爾文主義。
But in evolution, cooperation,though competition exists, of course cooperation has to be much more creative to go to increased levels of complexity.
但在進(jìn)化的過程中，合作,盡管競爭存在，沒有疑問,合作對于生命的復(fù)雜演變發(fā)揮了更大的作用。
We are super-cooperators and we should even go further.
人類是偉大的合作者， 而且我們要進(jìn)一步加強(qiáng)合作。
So now, on top of that, the quality of human relationships.
這其中最重要的是人類彼此關(guān)系的質(zhì)量。
The OECD did a survey among 10 factors, including income, everything.
OECD曾做過一個調(diào)查， 列舉了十個因素，如收入等等。
The first one that people said, that's the main thing for my happiness,is quality of social relationships.
調(diào)查顯示，影響幸福感的首要因素，是社會關(guān)系的質(zhì)量。
Not only in humans.
不僅僅是人類社會關(guān)系。
And look at those great-grandmothers.
再看看這些曾祖母們吧。
So now, this idea that if we go deep within,we are irredeemably selfish,this is armchair science.
剖析地夠深就會發(fā)現(xiàn)人類是無可救藥的自私，這種說法是空穴來風(fēng)，
There is not a single sociological study,psychological study, that's ever shown that.
沒有任何一個社會學(xué)或心理學(xué)研究支持這種說法。
Rather, the opposite.
事實(shí)是相反。
