Pratica di Shadowing: Climate Change Debate | Prof. Bruce Pardy | Opposition - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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And now look to Professor Bruce Pardee to close the case for the opposition and the debate as a whole.
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Mr. President, friends, Britons, countrymen, lend me your hearts.
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I come to praise your country, not to bury it.
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The evil that nations do lives after them.
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The good is oft lost in moral panic.
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So it is in this chamber.
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My friend LaCrosse has said that the West has brought upon the Earth the curse of climate change,
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that developing nations are victims, and the West is to blame.
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It is hard to remember what one has not seen, what life was like before,
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a century ago, or two or three, for the mass of humanity across the earth,
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a life of subsistence, hand to mouth,
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dawn to dusk, nasty, brutish, and short.
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90% in extreme poverty.
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And then, gradually, rescued by revolution.
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Not resistance, not marching in the streets, not by their revolution, but by yours.
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By the industrial revolution that raised humanity from the ditch.
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The developing embrace it, their people rise and prosper,
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which makes them victims, and the West is to blame.
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Where developing once met poor and weak,
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it now includes the largest engines on this earth, Not Ethiopia or Tuvalu.
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You know the ones.
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China, India, Indonesia, Brazil.
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Those poor and weak whose economies are larger than our own.
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Can we call China what it is?
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A wealthy, smoggy place with people spilling out from everywhere.
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Oh, the people!
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Two score of them, two score, for everyone at home.
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And each a source of climate change.
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Yes, so small a source, you say.
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Yes, a modest carbon print from each.
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Times ten, times ten, times ten.
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Times ten, times ten, times ten, times ten. and still not done.
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The developing countries are victims, and the West is to blame.
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The developing contribute more than half, have done so for a decade.
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The sky cares not how much from each.
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What matters is the total.
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from developing two-thirds and then three-quarters, and on and up we go, enough.
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Except developing countries are victims and the West is there to blame.
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The West has no right, they say, no right to save us all.
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No tit for tat, that's tyranny.
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To seek a quid pro quo to save the Earth may be just.
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They will not restrain themselves, for they are just developing.
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I am naive.
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I thought the cause was climate change.
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I see now it is not the gases in the sky, but blaming that we seek.
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The world will burn. So be it.
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For we have done the more important thing.
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Confessed our father's sins.
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Called developing nations victims.
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And blamed them on the West.
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One year ago, I went to see a piece of history.
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The source, the start, the first rumbling of the other revolution your country did bring to the world.
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Perhaps the best idea it has ever seen, no less so than coal and steam.
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A piece of paper where it all started.
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Under glass, the Magna Carta.
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The beginning of the rule of law.
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What does it mean, this rule of law?
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So many things, but here is one.
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Responsibility for our own actions.
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Punish not the son for the sins of his father, or his grandfather, or his great, great, great, great.
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our Western debt?
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There's no such thing.
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To seek rights and wrongs in history, to see whose lineage is owed and owes.
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Oh, to be a man whose lineage is free from sin.
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Name one, just one, who has not somewhere in his line Wrongs done by and to and on behalf.
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Surrender this, this counting up on ledgers of the past, reparations, apologies, accounting on behalf of people long dead,
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who lived in different times.
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We know not of their lives, the judgments that they made.
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We should start from where we are, deal with what we have, deal with people here and now,
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the ones who are alive, with intent to act within a deal to save the earth,
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with rules that apply equally to every nation.
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If climate change is as you say,
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no trifling thing but end of days,
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the answer is clear for all to say.
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For every country, keep its emissions to itself.
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For every nation, net emissions should be none.
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If not done by all, not done by anyone.
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So please, vote no. If not to be,
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a yes vote has us lose both the justice of the rule of law and the climate battle too.
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Thank you.
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