Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity's control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there's nothing we can do about that.

  • -- James Hansen 詹姆斯·汉森

临界点是如此危险,因为如果你越过临界点,气候就会超出人类的控制:如果冰盖崩解,开始滑入海洋,我们对此无能为力。

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No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

没有一个水族馆,没有一个水族箱,在一个海洋的土地上,无论多么宽敞,都不能开始复制海洋的条件。而居住在这些水族馆或海洋陆地上的海豚都不能被认为是正常的。

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

有些人害怕过多地分析自己可能会发现什么,但你必须深入自己的伤口,才能发现自己的恐惧在哪里。一旦出血开始,清洗就可以开始了。

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

所有的个人成就都始于个人的思想。你的个人成就始于你的思想。第一步是确切地知道你的问题、目标或愿望是什么。

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

海洋生物的灭绝常常与陆地生物同时发生。再一次,冰河时代的灭绝使许多大型动物灭绝,但没有多少海洋动物灭绝。