Humanity's most fruitful course of action is to determine how to shape these changes, how to influence them and produce an environment where the changes that occur are those we want.

人类最有成效的行为莫过于确定如何形成这些变化，如何影响这些变化，从而创造一个所发生的变化符合我们需要的自然环境。

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Being Ripped Off: the uneducated are prey for scam artists, and know how people can use money, coercion and influence to take advantage of them.

被敲竹杠：那些无知的人往往都是“诈骗者”的猎物，这些“诈骗者”知道人们怎样使用金钱，所以能够胁迫别人并有着影响力，最终利用别人。

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I want to talk about these ideas because so much rests on them and, even more importantly, a lot of these ideas have critical influence on how we think about the present.

我想要向你们讲述的，是他们的理论，What, i, want, to, tell, you, about, though, is—，因为它们是众多理论的基石，更重要的是，其中的很多观点对于我们如何理解当下，具有决定性的影响。

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You have to figure out what they are and how to influence them.

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But it came as a surprise that prior to helping them learn how to influence, we had to draw their attention to it as their core work.

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Cyclones, floods and droughts aren't in themselves new - but how much is global warming likely to worsen them, and how far will countries like India be able to influence the global debate?

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