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最近传来了一些有关环境的少有的好消息。其中有一条不容忽视。周日,约有30万人涌上曼哈顿市中心区的街头,参加“气候问题全民游行”。这不仅是有史以来就气候问题举行的最大规模的抗议活动,也是过去十多年在美国举行的各类政治示威活动中规模最大的一次。这项旨在应对气候变化的运动起初并非一帆风顺——至少有部分原因在于,这个问题从本质上讲很抽象。在飓风灾害“卡特里娜”和“桑迪”以及加利福尼亚州近期的严重旱情出现之前,对大多数美国人来说,气候变化只是一种在不确定的未来要面临的理论上的威胁。
There have been some rare good news about the environment recently. One of them can not be ignored. On Sunday, about 300,000 people flocked to the streets of downtown Manhattan to participate in the “Climate Change Parade.” This is not only the largest protest ever held on climate issues, but it is also the largest of the various political demonstrations held in the United States in the past decade or so. This campaign to combat climate change was not easy at first - at least in part because the issue was essentially abstract. Before most hurricanes like “Katrina” and “Sandy” and the recent serious dry spell in California, for most Americans, climate change is just a theory that faces uncertainty in the future Threats.