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We will never run out of fossil fuels we'll never use it all up, not for centuries
化石燃料將永遠燒不完幾個世紀都用不完
Sure, there is less oil and less especially of that really sweet Appalachian crude than there ever used to be
沒錯 石油越來越少了特別是阿帕拉契山脈原油的數量正在減少
but there is also oil sand and tar sand and oil shale and they may be called by some new euphemism like shale tar
但我們還有油砂焦油砂 油頁巖也許以后還會有人起新的名字 例如頁巖焦油
and of course there are enormous quantities of coal, coal, coal nothing but coal, everywhere all over the world
當然還有大量的煤炭 煤炭 煤炭全世界各地都有煤炭
And it was left herewhen there were no termites to chew it all up
煤炭還有很多而且沒有白蟻能夠將它們吃完
Right now no one pays for the smoke and the gas that burning coal creates
現在 沒人為燃燒煤炭產生的煙塵和廢氣付出代價
So people worldwide will just keep digging it up, keep burning it
世界各地的人只會不斷將其挖起 然后燃燒使用
Now when I rode my bicycle to the first Earth Day on the National Mall in 1970
1970年 我騎自行車去參加國家廣場的第一屆地球日
I locked my bike to a US flag pole at the Washington Monument and Washington was a small town back then
我將自行車鎖在華盛頓紀念碑的國旗桿上 當時華盛頓還是個小地方
and I celebrated that I had not produced any pollution because I had not driven a car
我慶祝自己沒有對環境成任何污染因為我沒有開車
It seems a little hard to believe now but here in United States along with rivers that caught on fire
現在看來可能有些難以置信原來在美國河流沿岸燃燒產生的有害物質
we had air pollution so thick, how thick was it?
讓空氣污染非常嚴重 有多嚴重呢
It was so thick that it killed people in their sleep
嚴重到甚至能讓人死于睡夢之中
That would still be happening and it would almost certainly be a great deal worse now
如果不是那些為改變世界而奮斗的人
if we were not for the people who fought for change but with the air quality regulations in place lethal clouds of pollution don't happen here anymore
這種情況肯定還在發生 甚至可能更糟還好 得益于空氣質量監管這里不再有致命煙霧污染發生
