‘Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,’ said an American writer in 1897. More than 100 years later, everybody is certainly talking about the weather and climate change. From hurricanes in Brazil to floods in Bangladesh, from heat waves in France to drought in Australia, the weather is never out of the news.
But is anybody doing anything about it? The climate is changing, but why? What can we do about it, and what should we do about it? These are important questions – and perhaps there is not a lot of time to find the answers. Climate change is going to have an effect on the lives of everybody in the world.
“人人都在談?wù)撎鞖�，但沒(méi)有一個(gè)人對(duì)它有所作為�！币晃幻绹�(guó)作家于1897年這樣說(shuō)道。100多年后，的確人人都在談?wù)撎鞖夂蜌夂蜃兓�。從巴西的颶風(fēng)到孟加拉國(guó)的洪水，從法國(guó)的熱浪到澳大利亞的旱災(zāi)，新聞中總有關(guān)于天氣的消息。
但有人在對(duì)天氣采取任何行動(dòng)嗎？氣候在發(fā)生變化，可這是為什么呢？我們對(duì)此能做些什么，又該做些什么？這些問(wèn)題很重要—— 而且也許留給我們尋找答案的時(shí)間不多了。氣候變化將會(huì)對(duì)世界上每個(gè)人的生活產(chǎn)生影響。