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I – Chapter 28

0100 [01:20:32] "I've probably given this slide show a thousand times. I would say at least a thousand times. Nashville to Knoxville to Aspen and Sundance, Los Angels and San Francisco. Portland, Minneapolis. Boston, New Haven, London, Brussels, Stockholm, Helsinki, Vienna, Munich, Italy and Spain and China, South Korea, Japan. " (Al Gore)

Brussels: ブリュッセル
Munich: ミュンヘン
Vienna: ウィーン

0200 [01:21:12] "Thank you. " (Al Gore)

0300 [01:21:14] "I guess the thing I've spent more time on than anything else in the slide show is trying to identify all those things in people's minds that serves as obstacles to them understanding this. " (Al Gore)

obstacle: 障害物
serve: 〜の役目を果たす

0400 [01:21:35] "And whenever I feel like I've identified an obstacle, I tried to take it apart, roll it away. Move it. Demolish it, blow it up. " (Al Gore)

blow up: 粉々にする
demolish: 解体する、撤去する
roll away: 動かしてける
take apart: 分解する、分析する

0500 [01:21:54] "I set myself a goal. Communicate this real clearly. The only way I know to do it is city by city, person by person, family by family. " (Al Gore)

0600 [01:22:30] "Bye-bye. Thank you again. " (Al Gore)

0700 [01:22:30] "Bye. " (Al Gore)

0800 [01:22:32] "And I have faith that, pretty soon, enough minds are changed that we cross a threshold. " (Al Gore)

cross a threshold: 境界を超える、垣根を超える
faith: 自信、信念
threshold: しきい、境界値

0900 [01:22:43] "Let me give you an example of the wrong way to balance the economy and the environment. One part of this issue involves automobiles. Japan has mileage standards up here. Europe plans to pass Japan. Our allies in Australia and Canada are leaving us behind. Here is where we are. " (Al Gore)

ally: 同盟国、同調者
automobile: 自動車
involve: 含む、伴う
leave behind: 置き去りにする

1000 [01:23:04] "Now there is a reason for it. They say that we can't protect the environment too much without threatening the economy and threatening the automakers, because automakers in China might come in and just steal all our markets. Well, here is where China's auto mileage standards are now. Way above ours. We can't sell our cars in China today because we don't meet the Chinese environmental standards. " (Al Gore)

automaker: 自動車メーカー
market: 市場、需要
mileage: マイル距離 (マイル単位で表した距離)、走行可能距離
mileage standard: 燃費基準
steal: 盗む、奪う
threaten: 脅かす、脅威を与える

1100 [01:23:31] "California has taken an initiative to have higher-mileage cars sold in California. Now, the auto companies have sued California to prevent this law from taking effect because, as they point out, 11 years from now, this would mean that California would have to have cars for sale that are as efficient 11 years from now as China's are today. Clearly too onerous a provision to comply with. " (Al Gore)

comply with: 従う
initiative: 率先、主導権
onerous: 面倒な、厄介な
prevent 〜 from …ing: 〜が … しないようにする
provision: 規定、定め、条項
sue: 〜を相手に訴訟を起こす
take an initiative: 率先して行う
take effect: 発効する、効力を生じる
too 〜 to …: あまりに〜で…できない

1200 [00:00:00] "And is this helping our companies succeed? Well, actually, if you look at who's doing well in the world, it's the companies that are building more-efficient cars. And our companies are in deep trouble. " (Al Gore)

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