"We need to do this now" | The Earthshot Prize Ceremony - BBC

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10月17日,首届「为地球奋斗奖」颁奖典礼在伦敦举办,这个奖项由威廉王子和英国皇家基金会发起,旨在为修复地球寻求解决方案。“世界自然纪录片之父”大卫·爱登堡发表演讲,呼吁从现在开始保护地球。

It's appropriate that the Earthshot Prize should be publicly launched here in this particular building, for this is where public television started back in 1936.

Since then, of course, electronic pictures have enabled people all over the world to see our planet with an immediacy and the clarity that has no precedent.

The most important story that television has ever told is now only too familiar.

The natural world on which we entirely depend is declining at a rate faster than at any time since the global catastrophe that exterminated the dinosaurs.

We know where this story is heading and we know we must give it a different ending.

And there's every reason to believe that we can indeed do that.

Recent advances have improved the world immeasurably.

Scientific breakthroughs, new technologies, medical advances and perhaps above all our ability to communicate across the world in an instant.

An ability of which television itself is an example.

And that has helped us to break down barriers, reach mutual understandings and cooperate internationally as never before.

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