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In the last five years we've added 70 million tons of CO2 every 24 hours -- 25 million tons every day to the oceans.
在過去五年間，我們每二十四小時已經增加了了七千萬噸的二氧化碳排放量，每天排放兩千五百萬噸的二氧化碳到海里。
Look carefully at the area of the eastern Pacific, from the Americas, extending westward,
仔細看看太平洋得東邊海域，從美洲一直延伸到西邊，
and on either side of the Indian subcontinent, where there is a radical depletion of oxygen in the oceans.
到印度次大陸的兩側，都有海域極度缺氧的現象發生。
The biggest single cause of global warming, along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the burning of fossil fuels.
造成全球暖化最重要的的原因，其中20%是因為不斷砍伐森林，作用和直接燒石油煤炭一樣。
Oil is a problem, and coal is the most serious problem.
燃燒石油是一個問題，但是燃燒煤炭更嚴重。
The United States is one of the two largest emitters, along with China.
美國是兩大燃煤消費國之一，也是最大的排放國，和中國大陸并列。
And the proposal has been to build a lot more coal plants.
而且還有更多燃煤的火力發電廠的興建計劃。
But we're beginning to see a sea change.
然而我們已經開始看到海平面的變化。
Here are the ones that have been cancelled in the last few years with some green alternatives proposed.
這是近幾年內已被取消的興建計劃，取而代之的是一些綠色替代能源計劃。
However there is a political battle in our country.
然而，在我們國家有一場政治角力。
And the coal industries and the oil industries
那些煤碳及石油工業，
spent a quarter of a billion dollars in the last calendar year promoting clean coal, which is an oxymoron.
在去年的選舉中撒了兩千五百萬，推銷所謂的“凈煤”，這無疑是掛羊頭賣狗肉。
That image reminded me of something.
那景象讓我想起了一些事。
Around Christmas, in my home in Tennessee, a billion gallons of coal sludge was spilled.
大約在圣誕節時，在我田納西的家中有十億加侖的煤廢水外泄出來。
You probably saw it on the news. This, all over the country, is the second largest waste stream in America.
你或許已經看過這則新聞了。這條流經全國的河，成為美國西部第二大的污水河。
This happened around Christmas. One of the coal industry's ads around Christmas was this one.
這件事發生在圣誕節附近。一個燃煤工業在圣誕節附近所播放的廣告如下。
