川普在 UN 對環境保護的抨擊
英文內文
Two weeks ago , President Trump spoke to the United Nations. He criticized that climate change was the "greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world". This statement quickly spread across the news.
This argument certainly differs from what most of us believe, but to understand why he said this, we need to consider the full context of his speech.
Today,many developed country have set limits on carbon dioxide emissions. As a result, companies are moving their production lines to other country with looser regulations.
For this reason, Trump point that the carbon dioxide we emit can cross borders and reach any corner of the earth. He said it doesn't solve real environmental problems . Worse still, it leads to higher unemployment in developed countries.
I couldn’t agree with Trump more. He always speaks about critical problems.
Besides the issue with production lines, I think products are also designed to be less eco-friendly. Ironically, we encourage people to recycle those bad product more and claim it is help earth.
We’re constantly forced to accept planned obsolescence, especially with smartphone industry. Some manufacturersban new firmware runing on older devices or release updates that slow them down, pushing users to buy new phone—even though their old one still work.
We keep buying new things, throwing them away, and repeating the cycle. Maybe what we really need is to reduce our desires and rethink how we design products.1
中文內文
兩週前，川普在聯合國大會的演講批評氣候變遷是「世界上最大的騙局」，並且這句話遭到了大量的新聞引用。
這句話乍聽之下與我們一直以來的認知違背，但你需要了解川普演講的完整脈絡才能明白為什麼他這麼說。
現今大部分的已開發國家都限制他們的二氧化碳排放量，這導致原有的生產線外移到其他管制寬鬆的國家。這導致已開發國家失業人數上升，更糟高的是，
因此川普才說，我們排放的二氧化碳可以跨越國界到達地球的任何一個角落，這沒有解決任何環境問題，並且外流的生產線還造成已開發國家的失業率上升。
除了生產線的問題，最近的產品本身也被設計的更不環保，諷刺的是我們甚至提倡要把這些不環保的產品「好好回收」。
我們一直被迫接受計劃性淘汰，這在手機製造上就很常發生，手機公司藉由停止支援系統更新、製造冗餘的系統動畫消耗運算資源來逼迫使用者買新的裝置2，儘管這些舊裝置功能上仍是可用的。
我們還是不停地買新的東西，再把他們丟掉，如此週 而復始。或許我們該做的事情是讓我們的慾望不要那麼多，並改變我們製造產品的方式。
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