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

How are you?

你好吗？

Good.

挺好的。

How are you?

你怎么样？

We're here at the Texas Gigafactory吉瓦时工厂（指大型电池或能源生产设施） the day before this thing opens.

我们此刻位于德克萨斯州的超级工厂，就在这一活动开幕的前一天。

It's been pretty crazy疯狂的 out there.

外面的情况简直乱成一团。

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

非常感谢你在百忙之中抽出时间。

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

我很希望你能帮我们——可以说吧——把思绪投向未来，比如10年、20年甚至30年后。

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

并帮助我们构想一下，要构建一个值得期待的未来，需要付出怎样的努力。

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

上次你在TED演讲时说，那其实是一个巨大的驱动力。

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

你知道，你可以谈论做你所做工作的许多其他理由，但归根结底，你需要展望未来，而不是觉得未来一片糟糕。

Yeah, absolutely.

是的，绝对如此。

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

我认为总的来说，大家有很多讨论，比如这个问题或那个问题。

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

很多人对未来的前景感到悲伤，他们……

Pessimistic悲观的.

悲观。

And I think...

而且我认为……

This is...

这……

This is not great.

这可不是什么好事。

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

我的意思是，我们真的希望每天早上醒来都能对未来充满期待。

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

我们希望为即将发生的一切感到兴奋。

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

生活不能仅仅是不断地解决一个个令人痛苦的问题。

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

所以如果你展望未来30年，你知道，2050年被科学家们标记为气候方面的某种近乎末日般的最后期限。

There's a consensus共识 of scientists—a large consensus共识 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.

科学家们达成了一致意见——一大群科学家认为，如果我们到2050年未能完全消除温室气体或将其完全抵消，实际上就是在邀请气候灾难。

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

你是否相信有一条路径可以避免这场灾难？

And what would it look like?

那会是什么样子呢？

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

是的，所以我不是那些宣扬末日论的人，这可能会让你感到意外。

I actually think we're on a good path.

实际上，我认为我们正走在正确的道路上。

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

但与此同时，我想提醒大家不要掉以轻心。

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

所以，只要我们不自满，只要我们对向可持续能源经济转型保持高度紧迫感，我认为一切都会好起来的。

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

所以我再怎么强调也不为过：只要我们全力以赴且不抱侥幸心理，未来一定会很美好。