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So in a nutshell, that's the challenge that we all face today at this interesting point in history.
所以簡單來說，這就是我們所有人今天面臨的挑戰，在這個有意思的歷史時期。
That's clearly what we've got to do next.
這很明顯是我們接下來要做的。
We've somehow got to get our act together and we've got to figure out how to globalize the solutions better
我們要設法共同行動起來，我們要想辦法如何更好的解決全球化的問題，
so that we don't simply become a species which is the victim of the globalization of problems.
以至于我們不會淪為全球化問題中受害的一個種群。
Why are we so slow at achieving these advances? What's the reason for it?
為什么我們取得進展的速度如此緩慢？原因是什么？
Well, there are, of course, a number of reasons, but perhaps the primary reason is
當然，這有許多原因，但也許最首要的原因是，
because we're still organized as a species in the same way that we were organized 200 or 300 years ago.
我們這個物種的機構組成與200或300年前的還是一樣。
There's one superpower left on the planet and that is the seven billion people,
目前世界上只有一個超能力那就是這7億人口，
the seven billion of us who cause all these problems, the same seven billion, by the way, who will resolve them all.
我們這7億人，造成了所有這些問題，但同樣的7億人，也要解決這些問題。
But how are those seven billion organized?
但這7億人是怎么組織起來的呢？
They're still organized in 200 or so nation-states,
他們還是由200多個國家或者多民族國家組成，
and the nations have governments that make rules and cause us to behave in certain ways.
國家都有政府頒布法律，并要求我們遵守一定的準則。
And that's a pretty efficient system, but the problem is that the way that those laws are made
這是一個相當有效的體制，但問題是這些法律的形成，
and the way those governments think is absolutely wrong for the solution of global problems, because it all looks inwards.
以及政府思考問題的方式，在解決全球問題上是完全錯誤的，因為它只看到國內。
The politicians that we elect and the politicians we don't elect, on the whole, have minds that microscope.
我們選舉出來的政治家還有我們沒選的政治家，總體來說，他們的思維方式都是顯微鏡式的。
They don't have minds that telescope. They look in.
他們沒有望遠鏡式的思維。他們只看國內。
They pretend, they behave, as if they believed that every country was an island
當他們行作起來的時候，就假裝他們在相信好像每個國家都是一座島嶼，
that existed quite happily, independently of all the others on its own little planet in its own little solar system.
獨立而快樂地存在于自己的小星球，于他國不無相干，而是在自己的太陽系里。
This is the problem: countries competing against each other, countries fighting against each other.
這就是問題所在：國家間互相競爭，國家間互相征戰。
This week, as any week you care to look at,
這周，或任何一周，如果你認真看的話，
you'll find people actually trying to kill each other from country to country,
你會發現一個國家和另一個國家的人民在互相殘殺，
but even when that's not going on, there's competition between countries, each one trying to shaft the next.
就算沒有戰爭，國家之間也在互相競爭，每個國家都試圖把別國擠下去。
