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2020年03月11日

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A few months ago, I was standing at the sink in the kitchen. Suddenly my daughter, who's seven, said, "You're lucky you got to have your adulthood before the planet was completely destroyed by climate change."

幾個月前，我站在廚房的水槽邊。突然，我七歲的女兒說:“你能在地球完全被氣候變化摧毀之前步入成年，已經(jīng)很幸運了。”

I didn't know this was on her mind. I hadn't spent all that much time talking to her about it.

我不知道她在想這個。我沒花那么多時間和她談這件事。

And the worst part, somehow, is that her voice wasn't full of emotion. It was completely matter-of-fact. Like, oh well, we don't have time to stop for ice cream, and I don't get to grow up in a world with a functioning ecosystem.

而最糟糕的是，她的聲音并沒有充滿感情。這完全是事實。就像，哦，好吧，我們沒有時間停下來吃冰淇淋，我也沒有在一個運轉(zhuǎn)良好的生態(tài)系統(tǒng)中成長。

How do you comfort a child when the science suggests she's correct?

當科學(xué)表明孩子是正確的時候，你如何安慰他們?

1. Break the silence

打破沉默

For a growing number of families all over the world, there's no avoiding it: Climate change is already at their front door.

對于全世界越來越多的家庭來說，這是不可避免的：氣候變化已經(jīng)擺在他們的面前。

Others, who are privileged enough to have evaded the direct impacts so far, seem to be struggling to deal with the constant barrage of anxiety-provoking news about the environment. And one of the biggest barriers among that group is emotional.

其他人，他們有幸躲過了目前為止的直接影響，似乎正在努力應(yīng)對不斷引發(fā)焦慮的環(huán)境新聞。其中最大的障礙就是情緒化。

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, an assistant professor of environmental studies at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, is working on a book for MIT Press about climate change and reproductive choices.

馬修·施耐德-梅爾森是新加坡耶魯-新加坡國立大學(xué)環(huán)境研究的助理教授，他正在為麻省理工學(xué)院出版社撰寫一本關(guān)于氣候變化和生育選擇的書。

He says, despite the fact that the climate crisis literally affects everyone on earth, too many of us are sitting alone with our worries, our faces lit by our phone screens in the middle of the night. "We seem to be more scared of upsetting the conversation than we are scared about climate change."

他說，盡管氣候危機確實影響到了地球上的每一個人，但我們中有太多人正獨自一人面對憂慮，我們的臉在半夜被手機屏幕照亮。”我們似乎更害怕擾亂對話，而不是害怕氣候變化。”

Mary DeMocker, an activist and artist in Eugene, Ore., is the author of The Parents' Guide To Climate Revolution, a book focusing on simple actions families can take both personally and collectively. "The emotional aspect is actually, I think, one of the biggest aspects of climate work right now," she says.

俄勒岡州尤金的活動家兼藝術(shù)家瑪麗·德莫克著有《家長應(yīng)對氣候變化指南》一書，該書關(guān)注的是家庭可以從個人和集體兩方面采取的簡單行動。她說:“我認為，情感方面實際上是目前氣候工作中最重要的方面之一。”

2. Give your kids the basic facts

告訴你的孩子基本事實

NPR found in a poll earlier this year that fully 84 percent of parents, including a majority of both Democrats and Republicans, agreed that children should be learning about climate change. But, only 45 percent of parents, just over half as many, said they had actually talked to their own kids about it.

美國國家公共電臺(NPR)在今年早些時候的一項民意調(diào)查中發(fā)現(xiàn)，84%的父母，包括大多數(shù)民主黨人和共和黨人，同意讓孩子們了解氣候變化。但是，只有45%的家長，也就是一半多一點的家長，說他們確實跟自己的孩子談過這件事。

You know your kids best, so try to make sure the level of information you're giving them is appropriate and not too graphic or upsetting. But at the same time, we can't always control what they may be hearing elsewhere, so it's good to be proactive with the simple facts.

你最了解你的孩子，所以盡量確保你給他們的信息是適當?shù)?，而不是太生動或令人不安的。但與此同時，我們不能總是控制他們在其他地方可能聽到的消息，所以積極面對簡單的事實是有好處的。

3. Get outdoors

走出戶外

Dawn Danby lives in Oakland California and has spent 20 years working in sustainable design, technology and business. She also has a 6-year-old daughter, a "fierce little person," and she doesn't want her to be too scared by what's happening to the planet.

道恩·丹比住在加州奧克蘭，從事可持續(xù)設(shè)計、技術(shù)和商業(yè)工作已有20年。她還有一個6歲的女兒，是個“兇猛的小人兒”，她不想讓自己被地球上發(fā)生的事情嚇著。

"I've encountered lots and lots of people who've been really traumatized as they've encountered" ecological crisis, she says.

她說:“我遇到過很多很多人，他們在遭遇生態(tài)危機時受到了很大的創(chuàng)傷。”

So Danby takes a different approach. She and her daughter spend as much time as possible exploring the outdoors, from old-growth forests to vegetable gardens.

所以丹比采取了不同的方法。她和女兒花盡可能多的時間探索戶外，從原始森林到菜園。

You don't have to live near mountains or the ocean to expose your kids to nature. You can start with ants on the sidewalk. Dawn encourages her daughter to "look at the bugs and think about what the bugs are doing ... everything has a role to play here."

你不必住在山脈或海洋附近，讓你的孩子接觸大自然。你可以從人行道上的螞蟻開始。道恩鼓勵女兒“看看蟲子，想想蟲子在做什么……”這里的一切都可以發(fā)揮作用。”

4. Focus on Feelings

關(guān)注情感

In a recent poll in The Washington Post, 7 in 10 teenagers said climate change will harm their generation — that was a bit more than older folks.

在《華盛頓郵報》最近的一項民意調(diào)查中，十分之七的青少年認為氣候變化將危害他們這一代人，這比老年人多一點。