It's still heavy now, and it was heavy before that, but when you flipped open a newspaper, when you turned on the TV, it was about ice caps melting, wars going on around the world, earthquakes, hurricanes and an economy that was wobbling on the brink of collapse, and then eventually did collapse, and so many of us losing our homes, or our jobs, or our retirements, or our livelihoods.
现在的情况也是如此， 每当你翻开报纸，打开电视， 你会看到冰盖在消融， 世界各地战争不断， 地震，飓风， 某国的经济正处在崩溃的边缘， 后来真的崩溃了， 我们中许多人失去了家园， 失去了工作， 无法安享晚年， 失去了生计。