The current generation of home-aloners came of age during Europe's shift from social democracy to the sharper, more individualistic climate of American-style capitalism.

现在这一代的独居者是在欧洲从社会民主主义向更尖锐、更个人主义的美国式资本主义倾向转变的过程中成长起来的。

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It is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.

显然，高排放国家的现任领导人需要做出决定，是希望自己被视为气候变化的暴君，还是开拓者。

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Climate change is the most serious environmental threat of our generation.

气候变化是我们这一代最严重的环境威胁。

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Noeleen Hayzer,executive secretary of the UN's Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) says climate change remained "the biggest challenge faced by this generation."

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Most of the data comes from the industrialized world. Not surprisingly, burning fossil fuels for transportation and electrical generation top the list for their contributions to climate change, acid rain and toxic pollution.

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We need a young generation that can understand the world, a generation that understands science and innovation and climate change, a generation that understands others and values the enormous wealth of our cultures because they belong to all humanity.

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But with the urgency that is a feature of the climate-change generation, the tide might just be turning.

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As a country challenged by the most challenging economic climate of our generation, we have recognized that government alone is not the solution.

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