Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)

How are you?

你好嗎？

Good.

挺好的。

How are you?

你怎麼樣？

We're here at the Texas Gigafactory吉瓦時工廠（指大型電池或能源生產設施） the day before this thing opens.

我們此刻位於德克薩斯州的超級工廠，就在這一活動開幕的前一天。

It's been pretty crazy瘋狂的 out there.

外面的情況簡直亂成一團。

Thank you so much for making time on a busy day.

非常感謝你在百忙之中抽出時間。

I would love you to help us, kind of, cast our minds—I don't know—10, 20, 30 years into the future.

我很希望你能幫我們——可以說吧——把思緒投向未來，比如10年、20年甚至30年後。

And help us try to picture想象 what it would take to build a future that's worth getting excited about.

並幫助我們構想一下，要構建一個值得期待的未來，需要付出怎樣的努力。

The last time you spoke at TED, you said that that was really just a big driver司機.

上次你在TED演講時說，那其實是一個巨大的驅動力。

You know, you can talk about lots of other reasons to do the work you're doing, but fundamentally根本的, you want to think about the future and not think that it sucks.

你知道，你可以談論做你所做工作的許多其他理由，但歸根結底，你需要展望未來，而不是覺得未來一片糟糕。

Yeah, absolutely.

是的，絕對如此。

I think in general, you know, there's a lot of discussion of like, this problem or that problem.

我認為總的來說，大家有很多討論，比如這個問題或那個問題。

And a lot of people are sad about the future, and they're...

很多人對未來的前景感到悲傷，他們……

Pessimistic悲觀的.

悲觀。

And I think...

而且我認為……

This is...

這……

This is not great.

這可不是什麼好事。

I mean, we really want to wake up in the morning and look forward to the future.

我的意思是，我們真的希望每天早上醒來都能對未來充滿期待。

We want to be excited about what's going to happen.

我們希望為即將發生的一切感到興奮。

And life cannot simply簡單地 be about sort of solving one miserable problem after another.

生活不能僅僅是不斷地解決一個個令人痛苦的問題。

So if you look forward 30 years, you know, the year 2050 has been labeled貼標籤 by scientists as this kind of almost like this doomsday deadline on climate.

所以如果你展望未來30年，你知道，2050年被科學家們標記為氣候方面的某種近乎末日般的最後期限。

There's a consensus共識 of scientists—a large consensus共識 of scientists—who believe that if we haven't completely eliminated greenhouse gases or offset抵消 them completely by 2050, effectively we're inviting climate catastrophe.

科學家們達成了一致意見——一大群科學家認為，如果我們到2050年未能完全消除溫室氣體或將其完全抵消，實際上就是在邀請氣候災難。

Do you believe there is a pathway路徑 to avoid that catastrophe?

你是否相信有一條路徑可以避免這場災難？

And what would it look like?

那會是什麼樣子呢？

Yeah, so I am not one of the doomsday people, which may surprise you.

是的，所以我不是那些宣揚末日論的人，這可能會讓你感到意外。

I actually think we're on a good path.

實際上，我認為我們正走在正確的道路上。

But at the same time, I want to caution against complacency自滿.

但與此同時，我想提醒大家不要掉以輕心。

So, so long as we are not complacent, as long as we have a high sense of urgency緊迫性 about moving towards a sustainable energy economy, then I think things will be fine.

所以，只要我們不自滿，只要我們對向可持續能源經濟轉型保持高度緊迫感，我認為一切都會好起來的。

So I can't emphasize that enough: as long as we push hard and are not complacent, the future is going to be great.

所以我再怎麼強調也不為過：只要我們全力以赴且不抱僥倖心理，未來一定會很美好。