consecutive interpreting practice
Summary
TLDRThe speaker, addressing a global audience, emphasizes the urgent reality of climate change, beyond individual choices, requiring large-scale action from industries and governments. He calls for a price on carbon emissions, an end to subsidies for fossil fuels, and a transition to renewable energy as a viable economic policy. The message is clear: solving the climate crisis is not political but a matter of human survival and rights to a liveable climate.
Takeaways
- 🌏 The speaker, an actor and concerned citizen, emphasizes the urgency of addressing the climate crisis, highlighting the global participation in marches and the collective desire for action.
- 🎭 The speaker criticizes the attitude of treating climate change as a fictional problem, stressing that it is a tangible and pressing issue with real-world consequences.
- 🔥 Climate change is causing severe environmental impacts, such as intensifying droughts, ocean acidification, and extreme weather events, which are supported by scientific evidence and recognized by various sectors, including the military.
- ❄️ The melting of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets is occurring at alarming rates, surpassing scientific projections and indicating the severity of the situation.
- 🏢 The speaker calls for industry and governments to take decisive large-scale action, moving beyond individual choices and addressing the systemic issues contributing to climate change.
- 💰 A key proposal is to put a price on carbon emissions and eliminate government subsidies for fossil fuel industries, which are seen as outdated and environmentally harmful.
- 🌱 Renewable energy is presented as a viable and economically beneficial alternative to traditional energy sources, dispelling the notion that addressing climate change is economically detrimental.
- 🌿 The debate over climate change is framed as a human issue rather than a partisan one, with clean air and a livable climate being recognized as fundamental human rights.
- 🌍 The speaker addresses the assembled leaders, urging them to take responsibility for the momentum generated by global marches and to act courageously and honestly in the face of humanity's greatest challenge.
- 📢 The script concludes with a plea for leaders to listen to the voices of the people and to act with the gravity that the climate crisis demands, emphasizing the importance of their role in shaping the future.
- 👏 The speech is met with applause, indicating a positive reception and support for the call to action against climate change.
Q & A
Who is the speaker addressing in the script?
-The speaker is addressing Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, and the global audience concerned about the climate crisis.
What significant event did the speaker participate in prior to this speech?
-The speaker participated in a march in New York, which was attended by 400,000 people, showing solidarity and concern for the climate crisis.
How does the speaker describe the general attitude towards climate change before the speech?
-The speaker describes the general attitude as one of denial and avoidance, comparing it to pretending that climate change is a fiction.
What are some of the current climate change impacts mentioned in the script?
-The script mentions intensifying droughts, ocean acidification, extreme weather events, and the melting of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets at unprecedented rates.
What does the speaker believe the scientific community, industry, governments, and the military know about climate change?
-The speaker believes that all these groups are aware of the reality and severity of climate change, and its impacts on the environment and security.
What does the speaker consider the role of this gathering in human history?
-The speaker considers this gathering as potentially the most important in human history, as it faces the challenge of addressing the climate crisis and has the power to make a difference.
What is the speaker's view on individual actions versus large-scale actions in addressing climate change?
-The speaker believes that while individual actions are important, the crisis has grown beyond individual choices and now requires decisive large-scale actions by industries and governments.
What specific actions does the speaker suggest to combat climate change?
-The speaker suggests putting a price on carbon emissions, eliminating government subsidies for old oil, coal, and gas companies, and ending the free ride for industrial polluters.
How does the speaker frame the renewable energy solution in terms of economic policy?
-The speaker frames renewable energy as not only achievable but also as good economic policy, emphasizing that it is not a partisan debate but a human necessity.
What does the speaker consider as 'inalienable human rights' in the context of the speech?
-The speaker considers clean air and a liveable climate as inalienable human rights, highlighting the fundamental nature of these aspects for human survival.
What is the speaker's final message to the delegates and leaders of the world?
-The speaker urges the delegates and leaders to face the challenge of climate change with courage and honesty, emphasizing that it is their responsibility to answer the call of the people and solve this crisis.
Outlines
🌍 Climate Change: A Call to Action
The speaker, identifying as a concerned citizen and actor, addresses the audience with the urgency of the climate crisis. Emphasizing the real and present dangers of climate change, such as intensifying droughts, ocean acidification, extreme weather events, and the rapid melting of polar ice caps, the speaker calls for immediate action. The summary of scientific, industrial, and governmental consensus on the issue is provided, highlighting the US Navy's view of climate change as the greatest security threat. The speaker implores the audience, possibly a global assembly, to take decisive large-scale action, moving beyond individual choices to industry and government-led solutions.
💼 Economic and Political Solutions to Climate Change
In the second paragraph, the speaker focuses on the need for economic and political strategies to combat climate change. Proposing the pricing of carbon emissions and the elimination of subsidies for fossil fuel industries, the speaker argues against the free ride given to industrial polluters. The benefits of renewable energy as an economically viable policy are underscored, transcending partisan lines and framing clean air and a habitable climate as fundamental human rights. The speaker concludes with a direct appeal to the world's leaders, urging them to respond to the global call for action initiated by the people, emphasizing that the challenge of climate change is not a matter of politics but of human survival.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Climate Crisis
💡Fictitious
💡Methane Plumes
💡West Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets
💡Scientific Projections
💡Security Threat
💡Renewable Energy
💡Carbon Emissions
💡Government Subsidies
💡Free-Market Economy
💡Human Rights
💡Survival
Highlights
The speaker stands before the audience as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched in New York, calling for action on the climate crisis.
The speaker, an actor, points out that mankind has treated climate change as if it were a fiction, pretending it isn't real in the hope that it would go away.
Climate change is a reality with intensifying droughts, acidifying oceans, methane plumes, and extreme weather events.
The West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting at unprecedented rates, decades ahead of scientific projections.
The speaker emphasizes that the situation is not rhetoric or hysteria, but a fact recognized by the scientific community, industry, governments, and even the US military.
Admiral Samuel Locklear of the US Navy's Pacific Command identifies climate change as the single greatest security threat.
The audience is challenged to make history by taking decisive action on climate change, or risk being vilified by history.
The speaker clarifies that the solution is not just about individual choices, but requires large-scale action from industries and governments worldwide.
A call to put a price on carbon emissions and eliminate government subsidies for old oil, coal, and gas companies is made.
Industrial polluters should face scrutiny, not receive tax dollars, as the economy will suffer if ecosystems collapse.
Renewable energy is presented as not only achievable but also a good economic policy.
The debate on climate change is not partisan but human, with clean air and a liveable climate being inalienable human rights.
Solving the climate crisis is a matter of survival, not politics.
The speaker urges the world leaders to listen to the voices of the people who marched and to act with courage and honesty.
The momentum from the marches must not stop, and it is now the leaders' turn to answer the call to address humanity's greatest challenge.
The speech concludes with a plea for world leaders to face the climate crisis with the urgency it deserves.
Transcripts
Thank You mr. secretary
general your excellencies ladies and
gentlemen and distinguished guests I'm
honored to be here today
you
I stand before you not as an
spirt but is a concerned citizen one of
the 400,000 people who marched in the
streets of New York on Sunday
you
and the billions of others around the
world who want to solve our climate
crisis as an actor I pretend for a
living I play fictitious character
you
often solving fictitious problems I
believe that mankind has looked at
climate change in that same way as if it
were a fiction
you
as if pretending that climate change
wasn't real would somehow make it go
away
but I think we all know better than that
now
you
elevated climate change is here right
now
you
droughts are intensifying our oceans are
acidifying with methane plumes rising up
from the ocean floor we are seeing
extreme weather event
you
and the West Antarctic and Greenland ice
sheets melting at unprecedented rates
decades ahead of scientific projections
none of this is rhetoric and none of it
is hysteria
you
it is fact
the scientific community knows it
industry knows it governments know it
even the United States military knows it
you
the chief of the US Navy's Pacific
Command Admiral Samuel Locklear recently
said that climate change is our single
greatest security threat
you
my friends this body perhaps more than
any other gathering in human history now
faces this difficult but achievable task
you
you can make history or you will be
vilified by it to be clear this is not
about just telling people to change
their lightbulbs or to buy a hybrid car
you
this disaster has grown beyond the
choices that individuals make this is
now about our industries and our
governments around the world taking
decisive large-scale action
you
now must be our moment for action we
need to put a price tag on carbon
emissions and eliminate government
subsidies for old oil coal and gas
companies
you
we need to end the free ride that
industrial polluters have been given in
the name of a free-market economy they
do not deserve our tax dollars they
deserve our scrutiny for the economy
itself will die if our ecosystems
collapse
you
the good news is that renewable energy
is not only achievable but good economic
policy
you
this is not a partisan debate it is a
human one clean air and a liveable
climate are inalienable human rights
you
and solving this crisis is not a
question of politics it is a question of
our own survival
you
and the most urgent of messages honored
delegates leaders of the world I pretend
for a living but you do not
you
the people made their voices heard on
Sunday around the world and the momentum
will not stop but now it is your turn
their time to answer humankind's
greatest challenge is now
you
we beg of you to face it with courage
and honesty thank you
[Applause]
you
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