Well, all of us know the dozen sorts of ticking time bombs going on in the modern world, time bombs that have fuses of a few decades to -- all of them, not more than 50 years, and any one of which can do us in; the time bombs of water, of soil, of climate change, invasive species, the photosynthetic ceiling, population problems, toxics, etc., etc. -- listing about 12 of them. And while these time bombs -- none of them has a fuse beyond 50 years, and most of them have fuses of a few decades -- some of them, in some places, have much shorter fuses. At the rate at which we're going now, the Philippines will lose all its accessible loggable forest within five years. And the Solomon Islands are only one year away from losing their loggable forest, which is their major export. And that's going to be spectacular for the economy of the Solomons. People often ask me, Jared, what's the most important thing that we need to do about the world's environmental problems?
Svima nam je poznato da u suvremenom svijetu postoje deseci tempiranih bombi. One imaju fitilj dug nekoliko desetljeća, ne više od 50 godina, i svaka nas može uništiti. Tempirane vodene bombe, zemljane, klimatske, bombe agresivnih vrsta, fotosintetskih maksimuma, problema populacije, toksičnosti itd. itd., ima ih oko 12. I dok ove tempirane bombe – nijedna nema fitilj duži od 50 godina, a većina ima fitilj dug nekoliko desetljeća – neke od njih na nekim mjestima imaju mnogo kraće fitilje. Ako nastavimo ovim tempom, Filipini će izgubiti svu šumu pogodnu za sječu za pet godina. Solomonski otoci za godinu će dana izgubiti svoje šume, koje predstavlju njihov najveći izvoz. To će biti strahovito za gospodarstvo Solomonskih otoka. Ljudi me često pitaju: „Jarede, koja je najvažnija stvar koju moramo poduzeti u vezi sa svjetskim problemima okoliša?"