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大众媒体对于全世界变暖无休止的恐惧报导使我们产生了不用要的惊慌。
The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in
the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened.
更糟糕的是,这吓坏了我们的孩子们。
Al Gore 曾对这样一个场景做过有名
的描绘:海平面上涨
20 英尺以后,佛罗里达、纽约、荷兰以及上海将几乎所有
被吞没于海底。
Al Gore famously depicted how a sea-level rise of 20 feet
would almost pletely flood Florida, New York, Holland, and Shanghai,
只管结合国申明,这样的事情不会发生,并且展望海平面的上涨幅度将小于
其描绘的 20 倍。
even though the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen, estimating that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that.
面对这些夸张的说法,我们中间有些人以为它们都是出于好心。
When
confronted with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a
good cause,
自然,假如我们所以而更为关注怎样应付天气变化的话,那自然没有什么
and surely there is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change.
这一论点是个惊人的错误。
This argument is astonishingly wrong.
此类的夸张其词会产生诸多危害。
Such exaggerations do plenty of harm.
过分担忧全世界变暖意味着我们会对其余我们本能够大有可为的事情关注更
少。
Worrying excessively about global warming means that we worry less
about other things, where we could do so much more good.
比如:我们关
注全世界变暖对疟疾扩散的影响——即将来
100 年中染上疟疾风险的人数会有小
幅增添——却没有踊跃地为今日
5 亿因为疟疾而遭到难过的人群供给给对疟疾
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