Bill McKibben:
比尔·麦基本：
For 40 years, scientists have been telling us that the worst thing that humans have ever done is change the chemistry of the atmosphere and hence heat the earth. Finally, the EPA recognized this, which allowed the U..S. to begin to take at least modest policy steps to start replacing some coal-fired power plants with gas-fired power plants, to spur the development of EVs.
40年来，科学家一直告诉我们，人类做过的最糟糕的事就是改变大气化学组成，从而让地球升温。终于，环保署承认了这一点，这让美国得以开始采取至少是适度的政策步骤，比如用燃气电厂替代部分燃煤电厂，推动电动车发展。
All the things that began this energy transition, albeit slowly. But also, all the things that angered the fossil fuel industry and the fossil fuel industry is in our country politically powerful.
所有开启这场能源转型的事情，虽然进展缓慢。但同样也是所有惹怒化石燃料行业的事情，而在我们这个国家，化石燃料行业在政治上很有影响力。
You'll remember candidate Trump telling heads of the oil industry that if they gave him a billion dollars in campaign donations, they would get anything they wanted. They ended up between donations and advertising and lobbying, spending about half a billion in the last election cycle. And clearly, that was enough, not only have we shut down wind farms that were 90% complete, put huge swaths of the country off-limits to solar panels, we've also now issued this proclamation that physics is wrong.
你们还记得特朗普候选人时期告诉石油行业大佬，如果他们给他十亿美元的竞选捐款，他们就能得到任何想要的东西。结果他们在上个选举周期里，加上捐款、广告和游说，总共花了大约五亿美元。显然，这已经够了，我们不仅关停了那些已完成90%的风电场，把大片国土划为太阳能禁区，现在还发布了这份宣称物理学是错误的声明。
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