More Climate Change Vocabulary- Part 2 - Our role in slowing Global Warming · Simple English Videos
本期视频讲解减缓全球变暖的相关词汇，适合练习环保主题表达。通过实际案例，如支持政府政策、回收塑料瓶和使用可重复利用水瓶，帮助学习者掌握实用环保词汇。
Hi, I'm Jay and welcome to this second Simple English videos lesson on the language of climate change.
大家好，我是杰伊。欢迎来到这节关于“气候变化语言”的第二课——本系列视频旨在用简单易懂的方式讲解气候变化相关知识。
Today we'll talk about the vocabulary we can use to join the effort to reduce global warming.
今天我们将讨论一些可以用来共同为减缓全球变暖做出贡献的词汇。
Now much of today's lesson is based
现在，今天课程的很多内容都是基于……
on the live conversation I held on Zoom with some of our Simple English videos subscribers in the very hot summer of 2026.
那是在2026年炎热的夏天，我通过Zoom与一些订阅了我们“Simple English”视频节目的观众进行的实时对话。
We have these live sessions every Sunday, one week at 9am Greenwich Mean Time and the next week at 6pm Greenwich Mean Time.
我们每周日都会举办直播活动：一周是在格林尼治标准时间（GMT）上午9点，下一周则是在格林尼治标准时间下午6点。
The sessions are free of charge and everyone is welcome to join.
这些活动是完全免费的，欢迎所有人参加。
Check the video description on YouTube for instructions on how to join or click the link at the end of this video to learn more.
请查看 YouTube 上该视频的描述，以获取加入方式的说明；或者点击视频末尾的链接了解更多信息。
This week we had guests from Vietnam, from Italy, from Serbia and from Spain.
这周我们有来自越南、意大利、塞尔维亚和西班牙的客人。
The Europeans in our group were just entering the third heat wave of the summer with wildfires already devastating parts of Spain and France.
我们小组中的欧洲人当时正处于夏季的第三波热浪之中；与此同时，野火已经在西班牙和法国的部分地区造成了严重的破坏。
Each of us contributed our ideas on what we can do to slow global warming.
我们每个人都提出了自己的建议，探讨我们可以采取哪些措施来减缓全球变暖的速度。
The one of the things we can do is support government policies in each of our countries to increase the planting of green spaces.
我们可以采取的措施之一就是支持各国政府推行的政策，以增加绿化空间的建设。
A list of studies showing how planting
一份研究清单，展示了种植……（此处“……”指代具体种植的植物或相关内容）所带来的益处。
trees in urban areas can reduce temperatures
城市地区的树木可以降低气温。
and thus help reduce the impact cities have on global warming is in the description of this video on YouTube.
因此，帮助减轻城市对全球变暖的影响，正是这个YouTube视频所描述的的核心内容。
Here's another thought from our guest, Irina, from Serbia.
这是我们的嘉宾——来自塞尔维亚的伊琳娜提出的另一个观点。
We need to start with education to
我们需要从教育入手。
educate our children what to do and
教育我们的孩子应该做什么；
what not to do and for example
有哪些事情是不应该做的；例如……
is that in my area in the schoolyard children collect plastic average plastic bottles during the weekend time and to recycle all of these bottles.
在我所在的地区，学校操场上的一些孩子们会在周末收集塑料瓶（主要是普通的塑料瓶），然后把这些瓶子进行回收利用。
Why does recycling plastic bottles help in the fight against global warming?
为什么回收塑料瓶有助于应对全球变暖问题？
Well because it takes 70 % less energy to make a plastic bottle from previously used plastic
因为用回收的塑料来制造新的塑料瓶所需的能量仅相当于制造新塑料瓶所需能量的 30%（即减少了 70% 的能耗）。
then it does to make a new one.
然后它会创建一个新的（东西）。
The more plastic we recycle the less
我们回收的塑料越多，最终需要处理的塑料就越少。
fuel we have to burn to make
我们必须燃烧的燃料……
new plastic bottles and that means the
新的塑料瓶……这意味着……
less carbon dioxide is pumped into the atmosphere to trap the heat of the sun as part of the greenhouse gas effect.
作为温室气体效应的一部分，被排放到大气中的二氧化碳减少了，从而降低了太阳热量被捕获的程度。
So thank you Irina, recycling helps.
所以，谢谢伊琳娜——回收利用确实很有意义。
And another suggestion from Irina along the
伊琳娜还提出了另一个建议……
same lines is to use refillable metal water bottles thus reducing our reliance on manufactured plastic bottles we use and discard.
同样，我们应该使用可重复填充的金属水瓶，从而减少对那些被制造出来后又很快被丢弃的塑料瓶的依赖。
But a larger issue arose in our discussion on Sunday and that was about education.
但在周日的讨论中，出现了一个更为重要的问题，那就是关于教育的问题。
Teaching our kids to act responsibly to help reduce global warming is surprisingly controversial
教导孩子们如何负责任地行事以帮助减缓全球变暖，这一做法却引发了出乎意料的争议。
a point I made in the discussion.
这是在讨论中我提出的一点。
Do we teach energy conservation?
我们是否教授节能知识？
Do we teach recycling?
我们是否教授回收利用的知识？
Do we teach climate change in our schools in America?
在美国的学校里，我们会教授关于气候变化的知识吗？
It has become in some places politically impossible to talk about climate change and the human contribution to global warming.
在某些地方，从政治角度来看，谈论气候变化以及人类对全球变暖的贡献已经变得不可能了。
It's become a political issue so it's difficult to teach it in some schools in the United States.
这已经变成一个政治问题，因此在美国的某些学校里很难教授相关内容。
It's important to educate young people to get them concerned about the problem but what you said about the states,
教育年轻人让他们关注这个问题非常重要。不过，你提到的关于各州的情况……
the political issues, I think unfortunately in many countries the politicians are the ones who have to be really involved.
关于政治问题，我认为不幸的是，在许多国家，真正需要参与其中的是政客们。
That's Susanna from Spain, the politicians.
那是来自西班牙的苏珊娜，一位政治家。