77岁亿万富翁布隆伯格正式参选美国总统！（附布隆伯格2019年哈佛商学院毕业演讲）
前纽约市长布隆伯格在较晚阶段宣布参选美国总统，凸显了驱动民主党内竞选活动的一个深刻的哲学分歧——利用他的经历、声望和财富来证明，要击败一位打破传统的总统，需要的是一届务实、能干的中间派政府。
迄今为止，民主党内暂且无人一马当先。布隆伯格表示，他希望填补这一空白，在初选中给选民提供一个可靠的替代选项，同时也给出一个明确的选择，迈上一条对税收和医疗问题持有温和观点的道路；民主党目前担心，如果提倡被认为过于偏左的政策，只会让特朗普的连任板上钉钉。
特朗普曾表示，他最想挑战的竞选者就是纽约前市长布隆伯格，但同时他也认为布隆伯格一旦参选，必将惨败。特朗普向媒体透露：“布隆伯格自身存在着大大小小各方面的问题，他的竞选注定是不会成功的，只是无意义地浪费钱罢了，但一定程度上他的加入会对拜登的竞选造成影响。”
前不久公布的2019年福布斯全球亿万富豪榜中，布隆伯格以高达520亿美元的净资产排名世界第9位，相比之下，特朗普的净资产只有32亿美元，或许，比起其参选的决定，布隆伯格多达16倍的财富才最让特朗普恼火。
前纽约市长迈克尔·布隆伯格（Michael Bloomberg）正式宣布竞选总统。此举可能会使将于明天春天开始的民主党总统候选人提名的竞争，完全具有另一番景象。
在11月24日（周日）的一份声明中，布隆伯格说，他之所以要参加竞选，是要重建美国和击败总统特朗普。他说，美国总统特朗普"对我们的国家和我们的价值观是一个生存威胁"。
声明继续说："如果他赢得连任，我们可能永远不会从损害中恢复过来。赌注不可能更高。我们必须赢得这次选举。我们必须开始重建美国。我相信我在商业、政府和慈善事业方面的独特经验，将让我赢得选举并做一个好的领导人。"
布隆伯格的首席顾问沃尔夫森23日接受采访时表示，布隆伯格竞选总统不接受政治捐赠，且成功当选总统后也不会领薪水，或者只拿1美元的象征性薪水。这与现任总统特朗普有些类似，特朗普曾宣称他将总统薪水全数捐给了慈善机构。
沃尔夫森表示，布隆伯格用自己的财富来参选是竞选优势，因为“没人能买通布隆伯格”，他可以不受利益集团影响，更好地关注大众需求。被问及布隆伯格参选总统要花多少钱时，沃尔夫森表示：“只要能打败特朗普，花多少钱都行！”
布隆伯格竞选纲领
We cannot afford four more years of President Trump’s reckless and unethical actions. He represents an existential threat to our country and our values. If he wins another term in office, we may never recover from the damage.The stakes could not be higher. We must win this election. And we must begin rebuilding America.I believe my unique set of experiences in business, government, and philanthropy will enable me to win and lead.As a candidate, I’ll rally a broad and diverse coalition of Americans to win. And as president, I have the skills to fix what is broken in our great nation. And there is a lot broken.We have an economy that is tilted against most Americans.We have a health care system that costs too much and doesn’t cover everyone.We have communities ravaged by gun violence.We have schools that aren’t preparing our children for success in an increasingly high-tech world.We have an immigration system that is cruel and dysfunctional.We have a climate crisis that is growing worse by the day.We have special interests that corrupt Washington and block progress on all of these issues.As a child and a Boy Scout, I was taught to believe in the promise and potential of America, and I have never been more worried about its future than I am today.America is at its best when we work together to find meaningful and lasting solutions to the big challenges that we face.We need a president who understands that truth – and who can do it, rather than just make promises.I offer myself as a doer and a problem solver – not a talker. And as someone who is ready to take on the tough fights – and win.I took on Trump on gun violence – and won stronger gun laws in states across the country.I took on Trump the climate denier – and have led an effort that has closed more than half the nation’s dirty coal plants.Trump right now is carrying water for Big Tobacco. I’ve taken on the dangers of e-cigarettes to protect our kids.
I know what it takes to beat Trump, because I already have. And I will do it again.I’ve never shied away from a tough fight.Defeating Trump – and rebuilding America – is the most urgent and important fight of our lives. And I’m going all in.My resolve to stand up to his bigotry and hatred and wrong-headed policies is anchored in who I am and my belief in government as a force for good.I’ve spent my career bringing people together to tackle big problems – and fix them. It has worked well in business – and in running the country’s largest, most progressive city.I know it can work in Washington, too – and I have the leadership skills and experience to make it happen.I’ve been very lucky in life. Growing up, my father never earned more than $6,000 in a year. But my mother and father worked very hard to help my sister and me get an education. I managed to work my way through college and get an entry-level job in New York.And then, when I was 39, I got laid off. I didn’t know what I’d do next. But I had an idea to start a company – so I took a chance.Today our company employs 20,000 people and generates large profits, almost all of which go to helping people across the country and around the world. I’ve always believed in investing in our employees and treating them well. We pay employees very well and provide the best health care benefits money can buy. And if someone has a baby, they get six months of paid leave.I’ve run my company according to my values: honesty, integrity, fairness, inclusion – and that’s the same approach I brought to city government.I was elected mayor of America’s most diverse city just weeks after the attacks of 9/11. It was a frightening time for our city and country. But we rebuilt the economy with new jobs and opportunity – for people on all rungs of the economic ladder.
As mayor, my priority was helping the millions of New Yorkers who needed it most.And the issues I am most passionate about focus on righting wrongs that have fallen heaviest on the most vulnerable communities. I know government can improve people’s lives – because when I ran New York City, that’s exactly what we did.Since leaving City Hall, I founded the largest gun safety group in history. I created a campaign to take on the biggest polluters and climate threats. As mayor, I banned smoking in restaurants and bars and cut teen smoking by 50 percent – and today, we continue to win battles against the tobacco industry and their sleazy attempts to hook young kids on e-cigarettes.I know how to take on the powerful special interests that corrupt Washington. And I know how to win – because I’ve done it, time and again. I will be the only candidate in this race who isn’t going to take a penny from anyone and will work for a dollar a year.
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5月17日，前纽约市长、亿万富翁迈克尔·布隆伯格应邀请，给MIT的2019级毕业生做毕业典礼演讲。布隆伯格的经历颇为传奇。38年前，从一个小房间开始创办自己的公司，一路蓬勃发展，成为金融世界革命的弄潮儿。到今天，布隆伯格集团已经发展成跨120个国家和地区，有约2万员工的国际大公司。
布隆伯格作为一名成功的企业家，纽约人，儒商，也有过业绩辉煌的从政经历。是9·11激发了他的参政使命感。2001年，在9·11恐怖袭击事件发生两个月后，竞选纽约市长的布隆伯格赢得大选。并且连任三届。
他是纽约历史上最成功的市长之一。他的工作，成功改善了城市的公立学校教育，促成经济增长和就业。在他担任市长期间，纽约市人均寿命惊人地提高了36个月；他也进行了积极有效的扶贫，使纽约领取福利卷的人口减少了25％；此外，他还是政绩卓著的环保家，在他的治理下，纽约城市温室气体排放量减少了19％。
布隆伯格也是全美最着名的慈善家之一，多年来，为解决枪支暴力问题、气候变化、公共卫生和其他问题，积极奔走并取得了惊人成就。
今天的演讲，从美国最伟大的一代人的”登月计划“开始，激励MIT的毕业生们，积极关注环境保护的大问题，通过更多地参与政治行动，完成”拯救地球“的时代使命。
布隆伯格MIT毕业演讲稿双语版As excited as all of you are today, there's a group here that is beaming with pride and that deserves a big round of applause – your parents and your families.
You've been very lucky to study at a place that attracts some of the brightest minds in the world. And during your time here, MIT has extended its tradition of groundbreaking research and innovation. Most of you were here when LIGO proved that Einstein was right about gravitational waves, something that I – as a Johns Hopkins engineering graduate – claimed all along.
And just this spring, MIT scientists and astronomers helped to capture the first-ever image of a black hole. Those really are incredible accomplishments for MIT.
All of you are part of an amazing institution that has proven – time and time again – that human knowledge and achievement is limitless. In fact, this is the place that proved moonshots are worth taking.
Fifty years ago next month, the Apollo 11 lunar module touched down on the moon. It's fair to say the crew never would have gotten there without MIT. I don't just mean that because Buzz Aldrin was class of '63 here, and took Richard Battin's famous astro-dynamics course. As Chairman Millard mentioned, the Apollo 11 literally got there thanks to its navigation and control systems that were designed right here at what is now the Draper Laboratory.
Successfully putting a man on the moon required solving so many complex problems. How to physically guide a spacecraft on a half-million-mile journey was arguably the biggest one, and your fellow alums and professors solved it by building a one-cubic-foot computer at the time when computers were giant machines that filled whole rooms.
The only reason those MIT engineers even tried to build that computer in the first place was that they had been asked to help do something that people thought was either impossible or unnecessary.
Going to the moon was not a popular idea back in the 1960s. And Congress didn't want to pay for it. Imagine that, a Congress that didn't want to invest in science. Go figure – that would never happen today.
President Kennedy needed to persuade the taxpayers that a manned mission to the moon was possible and worth doing. So in 1962, he delivered a speech that inspired the country. He said, ‘We choose to go to the moon this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.’
In that one sentence, Kennedy summed up mankind's inherent need to reach for the stars. He continued by saying, ‘That challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and which we intend to win.’
In other words, for the good of the United States, and humanity, it had to be done. And he was right. Neil Armstrong took a great leap for mankind, the U.S. won a major Cold War victory, and a decade of scientific innovation led to an unprecedented era of technological advancement.
The inventions that emerged from that moonshot changed the world: satellite television, computer microchips, CAT scan machines, and many other things we now take for granted – even video game joysticks.
The world we live in today is fundamentally different, not just because we landed on the moon, but because we tried to get there in the first place. In hindsight, President Kennedy’s call for the original moonshot at exactly the right moment in history was brilliant. And the brightest minds of their generation – many of them MIT graduates – delivered.
Today, I believe that we are living in a similar moment. And once again, we'll be counting on MIT graduates – all of you – to lead us.
But this time, our most important and pressing mission – your generation's mission – is not only to explore deep space and reach faraway places. It is to save our own planet, the one that we're living on, from climate change. And unlike 1962, the primary challenge before you is not scientific or technological. It is political.
The fact is we've already pioneered the technology to tackle climate change. We know how to power buildings using sun and wind. We know how to power vehicles using batteries charged with renewable energy. We know how to power factories and industry using hydrogen and fuel cells. And we know that these innovations don't require us to sacrifice financially or economically. Just the opposite, these investments, on balance, create jobs and save money.
Yes, all of those power sources need to be brought to scale – and that will require further scientific innovation which we need you to help lead. But the question isn't how to tackle climate change. We've known how to do that for many years. The question is: why the hell are we moving so slowly?
The race we are in is against time, and we are losing. And with each passing year, it becomes clearer just how far behind we've fallen, how fast the situation is deteriorating, and how tragic the results can be.
In the past decade alone, we've seen historic hurricanes devastate islands across the Caribbean. We've seen ‘thousand-year floods’ hit the Midwestern and Southern United States multiple times in a decade. We've seen record-breaking wildfires ravage California, and record-breaking typhoons kill thousands in the Philippines.
This is a true crisis. If we fail to rise to the occasion, your generation, your children, and grandchildren will pay a terrible price. So scientists know there can be no delay in taking action – and many governments and political leaders around the world are starting to understand that.
Yet here in the United States, our federal government is seeking to become the only country in the world to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. The only one. Not even North Korea is doing that.
Those in Washington who deny the science of climate change are no more based in reality than those who believe the moon landing was faked. And while the moon landing conspiracy theorists are relegated to the paranoid corners of talk radio, climate skeptics occupy the highest positions of power in the United States government.
Now, in the administration's defense: climate change, they say, is only a theory. Yeah, like gravity is only a theory.
People can ignore gravity at their own risk, at least until they hit the ground. But when they ignore the climate crisis they are not only putting themselves at risk, they are putting all humanity at risk.
Instead of challenging Americans to believe in our ability to master the universe, as President Kennedy did, the current administration is pandering to the skeptics who, in the 1960s, looked at the space program and only saw short-term costs, not long-term benefits.
President Kennedy's era earned the nickname, ‘The Greatest Generation’ – not only because they persevered through the Great Depression and won the Second World War. They earned it because of determination to rise, to pioneer, to innovate, and to fulfill the promise of American freedom.
They dreamed in moonshots. They reached for the stars. And they began to redeem – through the civil rights movement – the failures of the past. They set the standard for leadership and service to our nation's ideals.
Now, your generation has the opportunity to join them in the history books. The challenge that lies before you – stopping climate change – is unlike any other ever faced by humankind. The stakes could not be higher.
If left unchecked, the climate change crisis threatens to destroy oceanic life that feeds so many people on this planet. It threatens to breed war by spreading drought and hunger. It threatens to sink coastal communities, devastate farms and businesses, and spread disease.
Now, some people say we should leave it in God's hands. But most religious leaders, I’m happy to say, disagree. After all, where in the Bible, or the Torah, or the Koran, or any other book about faith or philosophy does it teach that we should do things that make floods and fires and plagues more severe? I must have missed that day in religion class.
Today, most Americans in both parties accept that human activity is driving the climate crisis and they want government to take action. Over the past few months, there has been a healthy debate – mostly within the Democratic Party – over what those actions should be. And that's great.
In the years ahead, we need to build consensus around comprehensive and ambitious federal policies that the next Congress should pass. But everyone who is concerned about the climate crisis should also be able to agree on two realities.
The first one is given opposition in the Senate and White House, there is virtually no chance of passing such policies before 2021. And the second reality is we can't wait to act. We can't put this mission off any longer. Mother Nature does not wait on the election calendar – and neither can we.
Our foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, has been working for years to rally cities, states, and businesses to lead on this issue – and we've had real success. Just not enough.
So today, I'm happy to announce that, with our foundation, I am committing $500 million to the launch of a new national climate initiative, and I hope that you will all become part of it. We are calling it Beyond Carbon. The last one was Beyond Coal, this is Beyond Carbon because we have greater goals.
And our goal is to move the U.S. toward a 100 percent clean energy economy as expeditiously as possible, and begin that process right now. We intend to succeed not by sacrificing things we need, but by investing in things we want: more good jobs, cleaner air and water, cheaper power, more transportation options, and less congested roads.
To do it, we will defeat in the courts the EPA's attempts to rollback regulations that reduce carbon pollution and protect our air and water. But most of our battles will take place outside of Washington. We are going to take the fight to the cities and states – and directly to the people. And the fight will take place on four main fronts.
First, we will push states and utilities to phase out every last U.S. coal-fired power plant by 2030 – just 11 years from now. Politicians keep making promises about climate change mitigation by the year 2050 – hypocritically, after they're long gone and no one can hold them accountable. Meanwhile, the science keeps moving the possible inflection point of irreversible global warming closer and closer. We have to set goals for the near-term – and we have to hold our elected officials accountable for meeting them.
We know that closing every last U.S. coal-fired power plant over the next 11 years is achievable because we're already more than half-way there. Through a partnership between Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Sierra Club, we've shut down 289 coal-fired power plants since 2011, and that includes 51 that we have retired since the 2016 presidential election despite all the bluster from the White House. As a matter of fact, since Trump got elected the rate of closure has gone up.
Second, we will work to stop the construction of new gas plants. By the time they are built, they will already be out of date – because renewable energy will be cheaper. Cities like Los Angeles are already stopping new gas plant construction in favor of renewable energy, and states like New Mexico, Washington, Hawaii, and California are working to convert their electrical systems to 100 percent clean energy.
We don't want to replace one fossil fuel with another. We want to build a clean energy economy – and we will push more states to do that.
Third, we will support our most powerful allies – governors, mayors, and legislators – in their pursuit of ambitious policies and laws, and we will empower the grassroots army of activists and environmental groups that are currently driving progress state-by-state.
Together, we will push for new incentives and mandates that increase renewable power, pollution-free buildings, waste-free industry, access to mass transit, and sales of electric vehicles, which are now turning the combustion engine – and all of its pollution – into a relic of the industrial revolution.
Fourth, and finally, we will get deeply involved in elections across the country, because climate change is now first and foremost a political problem, not a scientific quandary, or even a technological puzzle.
Now, I know that as scientists and engineers, politics can be a dirty word. I'm an engineer – I get it. But I'm also a realist so I have three words for you: get over it.
At least for the foreseeable future, winning the battle against climate change will depend less on scientific advancement and more on political activism.
That’s why Beyond Carbon includes political spending that will mobilize voters to go to the polls and support candidates who actually are taking action on something that could end life on Earth as we know it. And at the same time, we will defeat at the voting booth those who try to block action and those who pander with rhetoric that just kicks the can down the road.
Our message to elected officials will be simple: face reality on climate change, or face the music on Election Day. Our lives and our children's lives depend on it. And so should their political careers.
Now, most of America will experience a net increase in jobs as we move to renewable energy sources and reductions in pollution. In some places jobs are being lost – we know that, and we can’t leave those communities behind.
For example, generations of miners powered America to greatness – and many paid for it with their lives and their health. But today they need our help to change with technology and the economy.
And while it is up to the federal government to make those investments, Beyond Carbon will continue our foundation's work to show that progress really is possible. So we will support local organizations in Appalachia and the western mountain states and work to spur economic growth and re-train workers for jobs in growing industries.
Taken together, these four elements of Beyond Carbon will be the largest coordinated assault on the climate crisis that our country has ever undertaken.
We will work to empower and expand the volunteers and activists fighting these battles community by community, state by state. It's a process that our foundation and I have proved can succeed. After all, this isn't the first time we've done an end run around Washington.
A decade ago no one would have believed that we could take on the coal industry and close half of all U.S. plants. But we have.
A decade ago no one would have believed we could take on the NRA and pass stronger gun safety laws in states like Florida, Colorado, and Nevada. But we have.
Two decades ago, no one would have believed that we could take on the tobacco industry and spread New York City's smoking ban to most of America and to countries around the world. But we have.
And now, we will take on the fossil fuel industry to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy. I believe we will succeed again – but only if one thing happens and that is: you have to help lead the way by raising your voices, by joining an advocacy group, by knocking on doors, by calling your elected officials, by voting, and getting your friends and family to join you.
Back in the 1960's, when scientists here at MIT were racing to the moon, there was a popular saying that went: if you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem. Today, Washington is a very, very big part of the problem.
We have to be part of the solution through political activism that puts the screws to our elected officials. Let me reiterate, this has gone from a scientific challenge to a political one.
It is time for all of us to accept that climate change is the challenge of our time. As President Kennedy said 57 years ago of the moon mission: we are willing to accept this challenge, we are unwilling to postpone it, and we intend to win it. We must again do what is hard.
Graduates, we need your minds and your creativity to achieve a clean energy future. But that is not all. We need your voices. We need your votes. And we need you to help lead us where Washington will not. It may be a moonshot – but it's the only shot we've got.
As you leave this campus I hope you will carry with you MIT's tradition of taking – and making – moonshots. Be ambitious in every facet of your life. And don't ever let something stop you because people say it's impossible. Let those words inspire you. Because just trying to make the impossible possible can lead to achievements you never dreamed of. And sometimes, you actually do land on the moon.
Tomorrow start working on the mission that, if you succeed, will lead the whole world to call you the Greatest Generation, too.
Thank you, and congratulations.
跟今天你们所有人一样激动，在座的是一群充满自豪感的人，并值得大家热烈鼓掌祝贺——你的父母和家人。
很幸运，你能够在一个吸引世界上最聪明的一些人的地方学习。在此期间，麻省理工学院也扩展了开创性研究和创新的传统。你们中的大多数人，见证了LIGO引力波实验证明爱因斯坦的相对论正确的时刻。不过我作为约翰霍普金斯大学的工程专业毕业生，一直相信这个理论。
就在今年春天，麻省理工学院的科学家和天文学家，参与拍摄到第一张黑洞的照片。这些都是麻省理工学院取得的难以置信的成就。
你们所有人都是这个令人惊叹的学府的一部分——一次又一次地证明——人类的知识和成就是无限的。事实上，这里是见证登月计划实现的地方。
五十年前的七月，阿波罗11号宇航飞船降落在月球上。可以说，如果没有麻省理工学院，宇航机组永远不会登月成功。
当然，这不仅仅是因为MIT培养了63级毕业生，宇航员巴兹·奥尔德林(Buzz Aldrin，跟阿姆斯特朗一起最早登月的两人) 。还得益于MIT研发的导航和控制系统，帮助阿波罗宇航飞船顺利到达月球。
成功地将一个人送上月球的太空项目，牵涉许多复杂的技术。最大的一个难题就是，如何成功地导航宇航飞船完成50万英里的太空旅程。贵校的校友和教授，建造了一个1立方英尺的计算机，解决了这个棘手的问题——当时，计算机是庞大到占满整个房间的巨型机器。
麻省理工学院的工程师们之所以努力设计了那样的计算机，唯一原因是，他们敢于去做一些大多数人认为不可能或不必要的事。
其实在20世纪60年代，登月并不是一个有多少人积极支持的构想。国会不想批款。约翰·肯尼迪总统需要说服纳税人，证明载人登月任务是可能实现的，且确实值得做。
1962年，他发表了一个被后世传颂的演讲。他说：“我们选择在这十年中登月，和做其他一些事情，不是因为它们容易，而是因为它们很难做成。”
So in 1962, he delivered a speech that inspired the country. He said, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
肯尼迪用这一句话，表达了人类发自内心的那种“手可摘星辰”的勇气和追求。他接着说：“我们愿意接受这一挑战，不逃避挑战，且有信心赢得挑战。”换句话说：为了美国利益和人性光辉，我们要完成它。
结果证明他是对的。尼尔·阿姆斯特朗在月球上的一小步，成为人类巨大飞跃的一大步；美国也赢得了冷战的重大胜利；十年的科学创新，带来了前所未有的技术进步时代。“登月计划”也催生了许多改变世界的发明：从卫星电视，到计算机微芯片，到CAT医学扫描仪——甚至到电子游戏的操纵手柄。
我们今天生活的世界已经发生了翻天覆地的变化，不仅因为我们成功登月，还因为我们最先努力实现了人类登月壮举。回首历史，肯尼迪总统的登月呼吁，是正确的。是一项最聪明的决策。
今天，我相信我们生活在类似的时刻。但这一次，我们最重要和最紧迫的任务不是探索太空。而是要拯救我们的地球，我们所生活的家园，免受气候变化的影响。与1962年不同，这次的主要挑战不是科学或技术。而是来自政治因素。
事实是：我们已经在应对气候变化上有了技术优势。我们知道如何利用太阳能和风力发电；如何使用电池为车辆提供动力；如何使用氢和燃料电池为工厂和工业提供电。这些创新也并不需要我们在经济上做出牺牲。恰恰相反：总的来说，这些投资可以创造就业机会并节省资金。
是的，所有这些发电技术都需要大规模化——这意味着需要进一步的科学创新。但问题不在于，“我们如何应对气候变化？”问题是，“到底为什么我们行动这么慢？”
我们正在与时间赛跑——我们正走在失败的路上。随着时间的流逝，我们已经落后很远，情况恶化的速度以及结果的悲惨程度，将越来越触目惊心。
仅在过去的十年中，我们就看到历史性的飓风摧毁了整个加勒比地区的岛屿。我们看到“千年一遇的洪水”多次袭击美国中西部和南部。破记录的野火肆虐加州，还有创记录的台风在菲律宾卷走数千人的生命。
危机是真实存在的。如果我们不能去积极应对，那么你们这一代——以及你们的子孙后代——将付出可怕的代价。
科学家们知道行动刻不容缓——世界各地的许多政府和政要们也都开始明白这一点。然而，在美国，我们的联邦政府正在寻求成为世界上唯一退出“巴黎协定”的国家，以应对气候变化。
唯一的。连朝鲜都没有这样做。
在华盛顿，那些否认气候变化的人，跟认为登月是造假的人一样不尊重科学和事实。虽然登月阴谋理论家被降级到也就上上偏门的电台谈话节目，但气候怀疑论者却占据了政府的最高权力地位。
本届政府认为，气候变化只是一种理论。
像引力一样，只是一种理论。人们可以忽视重力，至少在他们触及地面之前可以这样。但是，当他们忽视气候危机时，他们不仅将自己置于危险之中，而且危及全人类。
不同于肯尼迪总统所做的——鼓舞美国人相信我们挑战太空的能力，现任政府正在迎合相信阴谋论的人。只看到短期收益，无视长期好处。
肯尼迪总统的时代赢得了“最伟大的一代人”的称号——不仅因为他们挺过了大萧条，赢得了第二次世界大战的胜利。还因为他们决心奋进，创新，并实现美国追求自由的使命。
他们敢于追求登月的梦想，他们把脚步拓展到太空“摘星”。通过民权运动，他们忏悔过去犯的错误。为我们国家的理想，树立了领导和服务的标准。
现在，你们这一代人有机会加入他们，同样名留史册。摆在你们面前的挑战 ——阻止气候变化——与人类所面临的任何其他挑战都不同。如果不加制止，可能会因为加剧的干旱和饥饿，导致下一次的战争。气候变化可能破坏海洋生物，摧毁沿海社区，破坏农场和工业，并传播疾病。
现在，有些人会说：我们应该把它交给上帝。但大多数宗教领袖不同意这种想法。毕竟，在圣经，或托拉，或古兰经，或任何其他关于信仰或哲学的经书中，哪个是在叫人类去恶化加重洪水、火灾和瘟疫等问题？
值得庆幸的是，来自两党的大多数美国人都承认，人类活动正在加剧气候危机。他们希望政府采取行动。在过去的几个月里，一直有形式健康的辩论——主要发生在民主党内部——围绕应该采取什么行动应对环境问题的讨论。在未来的一年，我们需要达成全面的和雄心勃勃的联邦政策上的共识，并促成国会通过它。
每个关心气候危机的人，都应该在两个事实上形成一致。
第一个是：鉴于国会和白宫相互唱反调，至少2021年之前，华盛顿基本没有通过环境治理法案的可能。
第二个是：我们等不及了，需要立刻采取行动。大自然母亲不会按选举周期而等待——我们也不能。
因此，今天我宣布，我承诺通过彭博慈善基金投入5亿美元，推出新的全国性的气候倡议行动，“超越碳(Beyond Carbon)"。我们的目标是让美国尽快地迈向100％的清洁能源经济，现在就开始行动。我们计划，不通过牺牲必须的东西，而是通过投资想要的东西来取得成功：更好的工作，更清洁的空气和水，清洁便宜的电力，更多的交通选择以及避免堵塞的公路系统。
要做到这一点，我们将应用法律手段，把环境保护局(EPA)在减少碳污染和保护空气和水方面的一些倒退行为，告上法庭。我们大多数的战斗都将在民间进行。将在城市和州一级的地方进行战斗——直接与人民互动。战斗将在四个主要战线上进行。
首先，我们将推动各州的电力公司在2030年前——即11年内，逐步淘汰燃煤电厂。政治家们一直在承诺到2050年前要解决气候变化问题——这是一种虚伪的托词，到那时候鼓吹这种拖延战术的政客早就不在了，无人能追究他们的责任。与此同时，科学发现地球正不断走向不可逆转的全球变暖拐点。我们必须设定短期的目标——必须让民选官员负责。
事实上，在接下来的11年里关闭所有的燃煤电厂是完全可行的。因为我们已经完成了超过一半的计划。彭博慈善基金与塞拉俱乐部一起合作，自2011年起，我们已经关闭了289座燃煤电厂。其中包括，2016年总统大选后，关闭的51座电厂。实际上在川普当选后，关闭速度反而上升了。
其次，我们将努力阻止新天然气厂的建设。当它们建成时，就将过时——因为届时可再生能源会更便宜。像洛杉矶这样的城市，已经停止了建新的天然气工厂，转而支持可再生能源。新墨西哥州，华盛顿州，夏威夷州和加利福尼亚州等地，正致力于将其电气系统转化成100％的清洁能源。
我们不想只是将一种化石燃料替换为另一种化石燃料。我们希望建立一个新型的清洁能源经济——也将游说更多国家这样去做。
第三，我们将支持我们最强大的盟友——州长，市长和立法者——追求政策和法律上雄心勃勃的变革。有计划地推动各州的活动家和环保团体的基层大部队的行动和进展。
我们将共同推动新的措施和计划，增加可再生能源，推行低污染的基建，支持低废物垃圾的工业，提高公共交通普及率，支持发展电动汽车。电动车正在将内燃机——以及相关污染——变成工业革命的废旧遗物。
第四，也是最后一点，我们将深入参与全国的选举。因为气候变化现在首先是一个政治问题，而不存在科学上的疑问，不是个多大的技术难题。
现在，我知道作为科学家和工程师，政治可能是一个龌龊不堪的词。我懂这一点——我也是工程师出身。但我也是一个现实主义者，所以我有三个字给你：克服它。
至少在可预见的未来，赢得应对气候变化的斗争将较多地依赖于政治活动，较少地取决于科学进步。
正因为如此，”超越碳”将包含政治支出，以动员选民前往投票，支持正在采取行动对抗环境问题的候选人。与此同时，我们将通过投票击败那些企图挡道的人，以及那些沉醉于美丽言辞、而不付诸行动的候选人。
对于民选官员，我们要释放的信息很简单：或者面对气候变化的现实，或在选举日面对后果。我们和孩子们的生活都受制于气候变化，那政客的政治生涯也应如此。
现在，随着我们转向可再生能源和减少污染，美国大部分地区的就业人数将净增长。在某些地方，正在失去一些工作机会——我们知道，我们不能把这些落后的社区丢下不管。
例如，一代又一代的矿工为美国的伟大作出了贡献——许多人为此付出生命和健康的代价。但今天，他们需要我们的帮助来应对技术和经济转型带来的变化。
虽然联邦政府需要进行这些投资，但我们基金会将通过“超越碳”项目持续的努力，证明我们确实是可以实现很多进步的。我们将支持阿巴拉契亚地区和西部山区诸州的当地组织，努力促进经济增长，并重新培训工人，以便在新兴产业中找到工作。
综合起来，“超越碳”的这四个要素将成为迄今为止我们国家对气候危机的最大规模的、系统性的进攻。
我们将致力于强化和扩大志愿者和积极分子，一个社区一个社区、一个州一个州地进行这些战役。我们基金会和我本人有这方面的成功记录。毕竟，道高一尺魔高一丈，这不是我们第一次击败华盛顿政客。
十年前，没有人会相信我们可以对付煤炭行业并关闭美国的一半矿厂。但我们做到了。
十年前，没有人会相信我们可以对付全国步枪协会，并在佛罗里达州，科罗拉多州和内华达州等州通过更强有力的枪支安全法律。但我们做到了。
二十年前，没有人会相信我们可以对付烟草业，并将纽约市的禁烟令传播到美国大部分地区和世界各国。但我们做到了。
现在，我们将与化石燃料行业对阵，从而加速向清洁能源经济的过渡。我相信我们会再次成功——但有一个前提条件，那就是：你必须提高声音，加入组织，敲门拜票，给你们的民选官员打电话，参加投票，以及让你的朋友和家人加入到你的行列。
早在二十世纪六十年代，当麻省理工学院的科学家们正在登上月球时，有一种流行的说法：如果你不是解决方案的一部分，你就会成为问题的一部分。今天，华盛顿是这个问题的非常棘手的一部分。
我们必须通过政治进步主义成为解决方案的一部分，通过政治活动给我们当选的官员送去挑战。让我重申，这已经从科学挑战转变为政治挑战。
现在，到了所有人都接受气候变化是我们的时代面临的挑战的时候。正如肯尼迪总统57年前登月演讲里说的：我们愿意接受这一挑战，不敷衍它，要有征服它的决心。我们必须克服艰难险阻完成使命。
毕业生们，我们需要你们的思想和创造力，去实现清洁能源经济的未来。但这还不是全部。我们需要你们的声音。需要你们投票。需要你们帮助推动华盛顿做他们不想做的事。这可能是一个新时代的登月时刻——但是，是我们唯一的时刻。
当你们离开校园时，希望你们能带着麻省理工学院的传统——行动和创造——登月的传统。保持雄心勃勃。永远不要让某些东西阻挡住自己，不要因为人们说这是不可能的而放弃。变压力为动力。让不可能变为可能，这种目标动力能帮助你们实现从未梦想过的成就。忽然有一天，就实现了登上月球（般的梦想）。
明天开始，致力于这项使命。如果你们成功，全世界将把你们称为最伟大的一代。
谢谢，祝贺你们。
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