Above all, when will we agree to assign real costs to the energy we use, especially carbon-based resources? The casualties of our failure to do so will be future generations of flood victims in Asia and China, farmers in drought-hit Russia and Africa, and everyone’s grandchildren, like my five, with whom I have spent this summer.
最要紧的是，我们什么时候才能同意去计算能源（尤其是碳）消耗的真正成本？我们没有这样做的后果承担者将是未来那些亚洲和中国的洪水受害者，以及俄罗斯和非洲那些遭受旱灾的农民，以及我们每个人的孙子辈，比如我那五个孙子孙女。今天的“进步”将给他们留下什么样的遗产？我们总是认为老一辈总是前人种树，后人乘凉。在当今世界，这还是真的吗？