珍妮·古道尔博士 | 不安的时代仍能看到希望

Even back in the late 1980s, I found young people high school, university were losing hope and they were angry, depressed or just apathetic. And when I talked to them, they all said more or less the same: You've destroyed our future, and there's nothing we can do about it.

早在20世纪80年代末，我就发现高中大学的年轻人都失去了希望，他们愤怒、抑郁或只是冷漠。当我与他们交谈时，他们都或多或少地说了一句话：你们已经毁了我们的未来，我们对此无能为力。

So indeed we are destroying the future of our young people, but it's not too late to do something about it. So that's why Roots&Shoots began in Tanzania with 12 high school students.

我们确实在摧毁年轻人的未来，但现在做点什么还不算太晚。因此，这就是“根与芽”在坦桑尼亚由12名高中生创立的原因。

And they got their friends involved and we had meetings, and we decided that the main message would be every one of us makes an impact on the planet. Every single day and we can choose what sort of impact we make.

他们让自己的朋友参与进来，举行了会议，决定主要的讯息是我们每个人都会对地球产生影响。每一天，我们都可以选择产生什么样的影响。

And that because everything in this life is interrelated that each group would choose projects to help people, to help animals, to help the environment.

因为生活中的每件事都是相互关联的，所以每个小组都会选择项目来帮助人们，保护动物，保护环境。

We have campaigns like tree planting, it's all over the world. Right campaigns raising money for our sanctuaries in Africa, for example. But the other projects, the children unless they're very small they can choose. So it's bottom up and not top down.

我们有像植树这样的活动，它在世界各地都有。比如说，为我们在非洲的庇护所筹集资金的运动。但是其他项目，孩子们除非非常小，否则他们可以选择。所以它是自下而上，而不是自上而下。

And so they'll choose tree planting, clearing up litter of a beach, off the streets, putting in bird boxes bat boxes making what they're calling insect or bug hotels, piles of wood which in insects can creep into and live.

他们会选择植树，清理海滩和街道上的垃圾，把鸟箱和蝙蝠箱放进他们所谓的昆虫旅馆，把木头堆起来，让昆虫可以爬进去生活。

You know, the children are so imaginative, this is the great thing. Children have imagination, but they're not always required to use it. They've just told do this, do this, do this.

孩子们是非常有想象力的，这就是孩子们的伟大之处。但他们并不总是被要求去使用它，他们只是被告知做这个，做这个，做这个。

But if you give a child a problem and say what can you do? What do you think would be good to do about climate change? What do you think would be good to do about this that or the other? And they come up with amazing ideas.

但如果你抛给孩子一个问题，问他你能做什么？你认为应对气候变化应该做些什么？你认为这件事或那件事该怎么做才好？他们的想法真的让人惊喜。