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But perhaps that's not the case. Perhaps instead, it's the distortions brought to us of what's really going on.
但事實(shí)或許并不是這樣，我們所接受的信息是被扭曲的。
Perhaps the tremendous progress we've made over the last century by a series of forces are,
我們的社會(huì)在上世紀(jì)一系列事件的影響下，所經(jīng)歷的巨大的進(jìn)步正在不斷加速，
in fact, accelerating to a point that we have the potential in the next three decades to create a world of abundance.
事實(shí)上，這樣的速度令我們在未來三十年中，擁有創(chuàng)造一個(gè)富足的世界的可能性。
Now I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems -- climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage -- we surely do.
我并不是說 這些問題不存在－氣候危機(jī)，物種滅絕，水資源和能源短缺的情況都確實(shí)發(fā)生了。
And as humans, we are far better at seeing the problems way in advance, but ultimately we knock them down.
作為人類，我們太擅長對危機(jī)做出各種預(yù)估，但最終我們會(huì)消除它們。
So let's look at what this last century has been to see where we're going.
讓我們來回顧下上個(gè)世紀(jì)發(fā)生了什么，來了解我們正向著什么方向在前進(jìn)。
Over the last hundred years, the average human lifespan has more than doubled,
過去的幾百年里，人類的平均壽命增加了2倍以上，
average per capita income adjusted for inflation around the world has tripled. Childhood mortality has come down a factor of 10.
經(jīng)過通貨膨脹調(diào)整計(jì)算，全世界的人均收入增加了3倍。嬰兒死亡率下降了10倍。
Add to that the cost of food, electricity, transportation, communication have dropped 10 to 1,000-fold.
食品、用電、交通、通信的成本下降了10倍到1000倍不等。
Steve Pinker has showed us that, in fact, we're living during the most peaceful time ever in human history.
史蒂夫平克為我們指出，我們正生活在人類歷史上最和平的時(shí)代。
And Charles Kenny that global literacy has gone from 25 percent to over 80 percent in the last 130 years.
還有查爾斯·肯尼提到世界范圍的識字率在過去的130年里從25％上升到了80％。
We truly are living in an extraordinary time. And many people forget this.
我們確實(shí)生活在一個(gè)偉大的時(shí)代。然而許多人忘記了這點(diǎn)。
And we keep setting our expectations higher and higher. In fact, we redefine what poverty means.
我們不斷地把期望越定越高。事實(shí)上，我們已經(jīng)更改了“貧窮”的涵義。
Think of this, in America today, the majority of people under the poverty line still have electricity, water, toilets, refrigerators, television, mobile phones, air conditioning and cars.
想一下，在今天的美國大部分生活在貧困線下的人仍然擁有電力，飲用水，廁所，冰箱，電視，行動(dòng)電話，空調(diào)和汽車。
The wealthiest robber barons of the last century, the emperors on this planet, could have never dreamed of such luxuries.
上世紀(jì)最富有的強(qiáng)盜大亨，這個(gè)星球上的帝王們，永遠(yuǎn)都想象不到這樣的奢侈生活。
