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If the nations of the world do not reduce the gases which are causing global warming, sometime in the next century there is a serious risk of dramatic changes in climate which will change the way we live and the way we work, which could literally bury some island nations under mountains of water and undermine the economic and social fabric of nations.
如果世界各國不減少排放造成全球性升溫的氣體，下世紀的某個時候就會出現氣候急劇變化的嚴重威脅，這將改變我們的生活和工作方式，某些島國就會被大水淹沒，某些國家的經濟社會結構就會遭到破壞。
We must work together. We Americans know from our own experience that it is possible to grow an economy while improving the environment. We must do that together for ourselves and for the world.
我們必須大力合作。經驗告訴我們美國人，在促使經濟成長的同時保護環境是有可能的。為了我們自己也為了世界，我們必須做到這一點。
Building on the work that our Vice President, Al Gore, has done previously with the Chinese government, President Jiang and I are working together on ways to bring American clean energy technology to help improve air quality and grow the Chinese economy at the same time.
我國副總統戈爾已同中國政府合作開展了不少工作。在此基礎上，我和江主席正在一起探討方法，在中國引入美國的清潔能源技術，在促進中國經濟發展的同時提高中國的空氣質量。
But I will say this again—this is not on my remarks—your generation must do more about this. This is a huge challenge for you, for the American people and for the future of the world. And it must be addressed at the university level, because political leaders will never be willing to adopt environmental measures if they believe it will lead to large-scale unemployment or more poverty.
但我還要重申—這話不在我的講稿上—在這一點上你們這一代還要有更多的作為。這對你們、對美國人民和世界的未來都是一個巨大的挑戰。這個問題必須在大學里提出，因為如果政治領導人認為采取環保措施會導致大規模的失業或嚴重的貧困，他們就不愿意這樣做。
