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1、难以忽视的真相 英文剧本 http:/You look at that rivergently flowing by.You notice the leavesrustling发出沙沙的声音 with the wind.You hear the birds.You hear the tree frogs.ln the distance, you hear a cow.You feel the grass.The mud gives a little bit on the river bank.lts quiet. lts peaceful.And all of a sudden,its a g
2、ear shift inside you.And its like taking a deep breath and going,Oh, yeah, l forgot about this.This is the first picture of the Earth from space that any of us ever saw.It was taken on Christmas Eve, 1968during the ApoIIo 8 Mission.within relatively comfortable boundaries.But we are fiIIing up that
3、thin shell of atmosphere with poIIution.Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Al Gore.I am AI Gore.I used to be the next president of the United States Of America.I dont find that particularly funny.lve been trying to tell this story for a long time,and l feel as if lve failed to get the message across.l was in
4、 politics for a long time and lm proud of my service.You gotta be kidding me. This is a national disaster.Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country,and get their.moving to New Orleans.Thats them thinking small, man,and this is a major, major, major deal.What do you need right now?There are
5、 good people,who are in politics in both partieswho hold this at arms lengthbecause if they acknowledge it and recognize it,then the moral imperative必要的事,必须完成的事 to make big changes is inescapable.unless you fix the biggest damn crisis in the history of this country.scouted out landing spots and they
6、 Lost radio contactwhen they went around the dark side of the moon.And there was inevitably some suspense悬念.Then when they came back in radio contact,they Looked up and they snapped拍快照 this picture, and it became known as Earth Rise.And that one picture exploded in the consciousness of humankind.激发了
7、人类的自省It leads to dramatic戏剧性的 changes.Within 18 months of this picture, the modern environmental movement had begun.The next picture was taken on the Last of the ApoIIo missions,ApoIIo 1 7.This one was taken on December 11 , 1972,and it is the most commonly published photograph in all of history.And
8、 its the onIy picture of the Earth from space that we havewhere the sun was directIy behind the spacecraftso that the Earth is fuIIy Iit up and not partIy in darkness.The next image Im gonna show you has aImost never been seen.It was taken by a spacecraft caIIed The Galileo that went out to expIore
9、the soIar system.And as it was Ieaving Earths gravity, it turned its cameras aroundand took a time Lapse picture of one days worth of rotation旋转, here compressed into 压缩成24 seconds.Isnt that beautifuI? This image is a magical image in a way在某种程度上.It was made by a friend of mine, Tom Van Sant.He took
10、 3,000 separate satellite picturestaken over a three-year period, digitally stitched together数字技术拼接而成.And he chose images that wouId give a cIoud-free view of every square inch of the Earths surface.AII of the Land masses accurateIy portrayed绘制.When thats aII spread out, it becomes an iconic标志性的 ima
11、ge.I show this because I wanna teII you a story about two teachers I had.One that I didnt Iike that much, the other who is a reaI hero to me.I had a grade schooI teacher who taught geographyby puIIing a map of the worId down in front of the bIackboard.I had a cIassmate in the sixth grade who raised
12、his handand he pointed to the outline轮廓 of the east coast of South Americaand he pointed to the west coast of Africaand he asked, Did they ever fit together?And the teacher said,Of course not. Thats the most ridiculous thing Ive ever heard.That student went on to 进入become a drug addict吸毒成瘾者 and a ne
13、er-do-weII.The teacher went on to become science advisor in the current administration政府,内阁.But, you know, the teacher was actuaIIy reflecting the conclusion of the scientific establishment of that time.Continents are so big, obviousIy they dont move.But, actually, as we now know, they did move.They
14、 moved apart from one another.But at one time they did, in fact, fit together.But that assumption was a probIem.It refIected the well-known wisdomthat what gets us into troubIe is not what we dont know,its what we know for sure that just aint so.This is actuaIIy an important point, beIieve it or not,because there is another such assumptionthat a Iot of peopIe have in their minds right now about gIobaI warmingthat just aint so.The assumption is something Iike this. The Earth is so bigwe ca
