近日,16岁的瑞典气候变化活动家格雷塔·图恩伯格在欧洲议会上发言,向在座的所有欧盟领导人们呼吁:请像拯救巴黎圣母院一样拯救地球!说到动情处含泪哽咽,演讲最终在30秒的起立鼓掌中结束。
My name is Greta Thunberg.
I am 16 years old.
I come from Sweden and I want you to panic.
I want you to act as if the house was on fire.
I have said those words before.
And a lot of people have explained why that is a bad idea.
A great number of politicians have told me that panic never leads to anything good.
And I agree.
To panic, unless you have to, is a terrible idea.
But when your house is on fire and you want to keep your house from burning to the ground then that does require some level of panic.
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