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So consider just doing this little exercise for a moment.
考虑做一下这个小练习。
What I'd like you to do is to just shut your eyes and imagine a child in your life who you really care about. It could be a nephew or niece, or your own child or grandchild.
我希望你闭上眼睛想象一个在你的生活中真正在乎的孩子。可能是你的侄子或侄女，也可能是你自己的孩子或孙子。
Just picture their face with your eyes closed. And now I'd like you to imagine them, still with your eyes shut, on their 90th birthday party.
闭上眼睛想象他们的脸庞。现在仍然闭着你的眼睛，想象他们在他们90岁生日派对上的情景。
And now someone comes across to put a tiny baby into their arms. It's their first great grandchild. And now just open your eyes again, come back to the present moment.
现在有人走过来把一个小婴儿放进他们的怀里。这是他们的第一个曾孙。现在再睁开眼睛，回到现在。
You know, their future isn't science fiction. It's an intimate family fact, just a couple of steps away from your own.
他们的未来不是科幻小说。这是一个亲密的家庭事实，离你的家庭只有几步之遥。
And that's just a little way of prompting ourselves to use our imaginative capacity to dance across time in our minds.
这只是一种小策略，鼓励我们自己利用想象力，在我们的脑海中穿越时间移动。
But you can stand back also and recognize that being a good ancestor is for all of us.
但你也可以退后一步，意识到成为一个优良的祖先是属于我们所有人的。
So some people who are interested in long-term thinking are really focused on issues of ecological justice and ecological degradation.
因此，一些对长期思考感兴趣的人真正关注的是生态正义和生态退化问题。
Others are motivated by struggling against racial justice. Some people are worried about long-term mental health problems.
另一些人则是为反对种族公正而奋斗。有些人为长期的心理健康问题而担忧。
Others are thinking about technology such as the threat from artificial intelligence or bio-weapons.
其他人则在考虑人工智能或生化武器等技术威胁。
So everyone has slightly different perspectives or issues that they care about, but put them together and they've got something in common, which is a recognition that we are far too dominated by the present tense.
所以每个人都有他们关心的不同的观点或问题，但把它们放在一起，他们就有了共同点，那就是认识到我们被现时过度支配。
And if any of you start thinking really long term, well, all of us really need the same things, whether you're living in the year 2021 or 2121. And what we need is air to breathe, water to drink.
如果你们中的任何一个人开始想得很长远，我们所有人都同样需要的东西，不管你生活在2021年还是2121年。我们需要呼吸的空气及喝的水。
We need a sustainable planet to live on. So even though we don't know what exactly the future might look like, what we do know is that all of us will need a planet to live on.
我们需要一个可持续发展的星球来生存。所以，尽管我们不知道未来到底会是什么样子，但我们知道的是，所有人都需要一个星球来生存。
At the moment we're using on average 1.6 planet earths each year in terms of our ecological footprint. We need to take care of this one earth that will take care of our offspring.
目前，我们平均每年消耗1.6个地球面积的生态足迹。我们需要照顾这个亦会照顾我们后代的地球。
Nothing is inevitable in history until it happens. We have human agency, we can remake our world for a longer term future.
历史上没有什么是不可避免的，直到它发生。我们有人类的力量，我们可以为更长远的未来重塑我们的世界。
We can jump off fossil fuels onto renewable economies. We can jump off myopic short term politics to politics that engages a longer now.
我们可以放弃化石燃料，转向可再生经济。我们可以放弃短视的短期政见转向长期的政见。
We can shift our education systems to taking the long view into account. We must rebuild our imaginations of what a civilization could be.
我们可以改变我们的教育系统，做长远考虑。我们必须重建我们想象中的文明。
