【英音】Ethical Capitalism Debate
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| 0:08 | The motion before the House tonight is this House believes there is no ethical consumption | 今晚众议院的动议是 本议院认为没有道德消费 |
| 0:13 | under capitalism. | 在资本主义统治下 |
| 0:14 | I'm sure you're as excited to get to it as I am. | 我肯定你跟我一样兴奋 |
| 0:16 | So I call on Alex Fish, elected member of standing committee, to open the case for the | 因此,我呼吁当选常务委员会委员的亚历克斯·菲什为 |
| 0:20 | proposition. | 提议。 |
| 0:34 | Thank you, Madam President, for affording me the honour to once again speak in this historic | 主席女士,谢谢你让我有幸再次在本次历史性的会上发言。 |
| 0:38 | chamber. | 房间 |
| 0:39 | May I also thank you for all the work you have done in your many terms at the society | 我也感谢你在社会上所做的许多工作 |
| 0:43 | to make it a better place. | 让它成为一个更好的地方。 |
| 0:45 | I'm so glad that you've finally given me permission to do what I always wanted to do in this chamber | 我很高兴你终于允许我 做我一直想做的事 |
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| 1 | The motion before the House tonight is this House believes there is no ethical consumption | 今晚众议院的动议是 本议院认为没有道德消费 |
| 2 | under capitalism. | 在资本主义统治下 |
| 3 | I'm sure you're as excited to get to it as I am. | 我肯定你跟我一样兴奋 |
| 4 | So I call on Alex Fish, elected member of standing committee, to open the case for the | 因此,我呼吁当选常务委员会委员的亚历克斯·菲什为 |
| 5 | proposition. | 提议。 |
| 6 | Thank you, Madam President, for affording me the honour to once again speak in this historic | 主席女士,谢谢你让我有幸再次在本次历史性的会上发言。 |
| 7 | chamber. | 房间 |
| 8 | May I also thank you for all the work you have done in your many terms at the society | 我也感谢你在社会上所做的许多工作 |
| 9 | to make it a better place. | 让它成为一个更好的地方。 |
| 10 | I'm so glad that you've finally given me permission to do what I always wanted to do in this chamber | 我很高兴你终于允许我 做我一直想做的事 |
| 11 | which has bashed the horrific system of neoliberal capitalism whilst wearing black tie. | 它击败了可怕的 新自由主义资本主义制度 同时穿黑领带。 |
| 12 | Proposition tonight have to persuade you that the system that we all participate in is fundamentally | 今晚的提案必须说服大家 我们共同参与的系统 |
| 13 | unethical. | 不道德的,不道德的。 |
| 14 | That is obviously not a nice thing for anyone to admit to themselves, but it's something | 这显然不是一件好事 任何人承认自己, 但这是东西 |
| 15 | that we have to face up to. | 我们必须面对现实 |
| 16 | Now capitalism is a highly complex topic. | 现在资本主义是一个非常复杂的话题. |
| 17 | Many a tone has been written about how to define it. | 对于如何定义它,已经写出了许多调子. |
| 18 | So I decided to go to the esteemed president herself, Molly, and ask a PPEist how to define | 所以我决定亲自去找尊敬的总统 Molly 问一个个人防护人员如何定义 |
| 19 | capitalism. | 资本主义. |
| 20 | The response I got was, oh no, and then she ran away. | 我得到的反应是,哦,不, 然后她跑了。 |
| 21 | Nonetheless, capitalism is an economic system in which we all reside and participate in. | 然而,资本主义是一种我们大家都居住和参与的经济制度。 |
| 22 | The market has sovereignty over the means of production. | 市场对生产资料拥有主权. |
| 23 | Many have tried to reform and defang capitalism, but it is a system that rests on injustice. | 许多人试图改革并推翻资本主义,但它是一个建立在不公正之上的制度。 |
| 24 | It is a system that rests on exploitation. | 这是一个依靠剥削的制度。 |
| 25 | And by participating in this system, willingly or unwillingly, we are engaging in unethical | 而通过参与这个系统,无论是自愿还是不愿意,我们是在从事不道德的行为。 |
| 26 | practice. | 实践。 |
| 27 | Three main points in my speech today. | 我今演说三重. |
| 28 | Firstly, why the processes of production under capitalism make it unethical. | 首先,为什么资本主义下的生产过程使它不道德。 |
| 29 | Secondly, why consumer attempts to make capitalism ethical still fail. | 第二,为什么消费者试图使资本主义道德化仍然失败。 |
| 30 | And thirdly, the solutions to this issue. | 第三,这个问题的解决办法。 |
| 31 | But before I go into my main points, I have the immense honour of introducing the opposition | 但首先,我非常荣幸地介绍一下反对派 |
| 32 | speakers tonight. | 今晚的演讲者。 |
| 33 | First up, we have the graduate officer, Israr Khan. | 首先,我们有 研究生军官,伊斯拉尔汗。 |
| 34 | I've never quite heard a speaker hear hear themselves, but this is the first time. | 我从来没有听过一个演讲者听到自己的声音, 但这是第一次。 |
| 35 | Now many have compared Israr and myself. | 现在很多人都比较了Israr和我 |
| 36 | We both attend every event we can at the Union. | 我们都参加任何我们能在工会举办的活动。 |
| 37 | We both have organised very fun socials. | 我们都组织了非常有趣的社交活动。 |
| 38 | I want to give a huge shout out to Israr for the graduate social that will be happening | 我想给伊丝拉尔一个巨大的呼喊 为即将发生的毕业社交 |
| 39 | this Saturday. | 这个星期六 |
| 40 | It's going to be a lot of fun. | 将作大乐. |
| 41 | If you can attend, please do. | 如果你能出席,请。 |
| 42 | However, unlike me, Israr didn't quite get elected to secretaries committee, but I'm | 不过,不像我,Israr没有被选入秘书委员会 但我 |
| 43 | glad to see he's bouncing back now and he'll make a great speech this evening. | 很高兴他现在回来了 他今晚会做一个伟大的演讲 |
| 44 | Next up is Sam Hall, who has done amazing work as the director of the Conservative Environment | 接下来是Sam Hall 作为保守环境总监 做了惊人的工作 |
| 45 | Network. | 腾讯网. |
| 46 | When I heard that Sam was coming to speak in tonight's debate, I think I had a very | 当我听到山姆要来参加今晚的辩论时 我想我有一个非常 |
| 47 | similar reaction to everybody in this room. | 对这间屋子里每个人的类似反应 |
| 48 | Who is that? | 那是谁? |
| 49 | I began to worry that Sam would be far too boring to roast, but then I struck gold. | 我开始担心山姆会太无聊 烧不烤,但后来我打金。 |
| 50 | It turns out that Mr Hall was formerly the employee of one of our former presidents here | 原来霍尔先生以前是这里一位前总统的雇员 |
| 51 | at the Oxford Union, Michael Gove. | 在牛津大学,迈克尔・戈夫。 |
| 52 | Truly, if anybody is able to talk strenuously about working under an exploitative boss, | 真的,如果有人能 艰苦地谈论在一个剥削性的老板之下工作, |
| 53 | it will be Mr Hall. | 是霍尔先生 |
| 54 | The third speaker tonight is Simon Mundy, a writer and journalist who has published | 今晚的第三位演讲者是西蒙·蒙迪,他是一个作家和记者,他发表了 |
| 55 | a lot of work talking about how to deal with the climate crisis. | 许多关于如何处理气候危机的工作。 |
| 56 | Now, famously, union debates can become quite awkward when members of committee have to | 现在,有名的,工会辩论 可能会变得相当尴尬 当委员会成员不得不 |
| 57 | roast each other and then we have to face each other the next day. | 互相烤熟,然后我们不得不面对对方第二天。 |
| 58 | Now tonight, I have no doubt that Simon will have a very similar issue, because on my side, | 今晚,我毫不怀疑 西蒙会有一个非常相似的问题, 因为对我来说, |
| 59 | we've got Tom Burgess, a fellow Financial Times reporter. | 我们有汤姆·伯吉斯 金融时报记者 |
| 60 | Now, inevitably, when Tom makes a much more nuanced and better analysis and a wittier | 现在,不可避免的,当汤姆 做一个更细微,更好的分析 和智能 |
| 61 | speech, I hope that things don't get too awkward in the FT office tomorrow. | 我希望明天在FT办公室不要太尴尬 |
| 62 | Finally, we have the extremely talented Larissa Kober, who serves alongside me on standing | 最后,我们有一位非常有才华的拉丽莎·科伯,他和我站在一起 |
| 63 | committee this term. | 委员这一任期。 |
| 64 | Now, I'm unsurprised to see Larissa on that bench, considering earlier today she confessed | 现在,我并不惊奇 看到拉丽莎在板凳上, 考虑到今天早些时候 她认罪 |
| 65 | to me that the dress she is currently wearing was ordered from the fast fashion giant ASOS. | 她现在穿的裙子 是快时尚巨型ASOS订的 |
| 66 | At least we can say that Larissa firmly practices what she is preaching tonight. | 至少我们可以说,拉里萨坚决奉行她今晚的传教。 |
| 67 | Madam President, these are your guests and they are most welcome. | 主席女士,这是你的客人,非常欢迎。 |
| 68 | Now, moving on to my first point about the exploitative and unethical nature of production | 现在,继续我关于生产剥削和不道德的第一点 |
| 69 | under capitalism. | 在资本主义统治下 |
| 70 | The inherent drive of capitalism is to make the most amount of money from your workers, | 资本主义的内在驱动力是 从你的工人身上赚到最多钱, |
| 71 | paying them as little as possible, but getting them to do the most amount of work as possible. | 尽可能少付钱,但让他们做尽可能多的工作。 |
| 72 | Now, in a world in which money is needed to survive, employers have a hell of a lot of | 现在,在一个需要钱生存的世界里, 雇主有很多 |
| 73 | power in the wage market. | 工资市场上的权力。 |
| 74 | In developing countries around the world, workers are exploited on wages that aren't | 在全球发展中国家,工人被剥削 工资不是 |
| 75 | nearly enough to survive day by day. | 几乎足够每天生存。 |
| 76 | In Bangladesh, female workers are paid 10 cents an hour to produce Spice Girl T-shirts | 在孟加拉国,女工每小时领取10美分工资,以生产辣椒女孩T恤。 |
| 77 | that cost 60 pounds to buy here in the UK. | 这花了60磅 在英国买。 |
| 78 | But it's not just in developing countries that workers are exploited for profit. | 但不仅仅是在发展中国家,工人被剥削以获得利润. |
| 79 | It happens right here on our doorstep as well. | 也发生在我们家门口 |
| 80 | Almost one tenth of the UK workforce is not currently being paid the national living wage. | 联合王国劳动力的近十分之一目前没有领取国家生活工资。 |
| 81 | And for many people, the national living wage isn't enough to live off anyway. | 对许多人来说, 国民生活工资是不足以维持生计的。 |
| 82 | Sports direct workers and Amazon warehouse workers are being forced to camp outside their | 体育直属工人和亚马逊仓库工人被迫在外露营。 |
| 83 | places of work in case they lose their jobs the next day. | 工作场所,以防第二天失业。 |
| 84 | Now, the other side will try to tell you tonight that this is not a problem of capitalism but | 对方今晚会告诉你 这不是资本主义的问题 |
| 85 | fundamentally a problem of people who are making bad decisions. | 根本上是那些做坏决定的人的问题 |
| 86 | I'm afraid this just isn't the case. | 恐怕事实并非如此 |
| 87 | This is too widespread to simply be an anomaly of the system because it is the system. | 这太普遍了,不能只是系统的一个反常现象,因为它是系统。 |
| 88 | To add to this, businesses are at the forefront of perpetuating the climate crisis. | 此外,企业处于使气候危机永久化的前列。 |
| 89 | Now, I could rattle off statistics about the huge impact corporations have had on climate change. | 现在,我可以拨乱反正 有关公司对气候变化的巨大影响的统计数据。 |
| 90 | But I want you to think about this on a much more individual level. | 但我希望你从个人角度考虑这个问题。 |
| 91 | Christmas has just happened. | 圣诞节刚刚开始 |
| 92 | We can talk about toys. | 我们可以谈谈玩具 |
| 93 | Take a Barbie doll. | 拿个芭比娃娃 |
| 94 | Over three cups of oil go into every single Barbie doll that is produced. | 超过三杯的石油 进入每个芭比娃娃生产。 |
| 95 | There is so much toxicity in the plastic products that we are producing right now that it almost | 塑料制品的毒性是如此之大 而我们现在正在生产,以至于几乎 |
| 96 | rivals the Oxford Union politics in the toxicity that is being produced. | 与牛津大学联盟的政治竞争 正在产生的毒性。 |
| 97 | In short, the products we buy every day are tainted by unethical practices of exploiting labour. | 简言之,我们每天购买的产品受到剥削劳动力的不道德做法的玷污。 |
| 98 | They perpetuate inequality and they catalyse the most pressing issue facing humanity at the moment. | 它们使不平等永久化,并促成了人类目前面临的最紧迫问题。 |
| 99 | So, moving on, having painted a picture of a world ravaged by the woes of capitalism, | 所以,继续前进, 画了一幅被资本主义灾难蹂躏的世界的照片, |
| 100 | I want to turn to what alternatives consumers go to. | 我想谈谈消费者选择什么 |
| 101 | Now, although I would argue, as you will see in a moment, that it is very hard to find | 现在,尽管我会说,你会看到, 它非常难找到 |
| 102 | completely ethical production of most products, we can definitely still try. | 完全有道德地生产出大多数产品, 我们肯定仍然可以尝试。 |
| 103 | And indeed, as an example, I want to use my famous tartan trues that many people know me for wearing. | 实际上,作为一个例子,我想用我著名的柏油真品, 很多人都认识我穿。 |
| 104 | These bad boys are a hunting McLean tartan and they come from the McColls of Brotty Ferry, | 这些坏孩子是猎杀麦克莱恩·柏拉图 他们来自布洛蒂费利的麦考尔一家 |
| 105 | which is a local family tartan shop. | 这是一家本地家庭的柏油店 |
| 106 | And indeed, the Bonnie Prince Charlie jacket that I am wearing this evening comes from | 事实上,我今晚穿的 邦妮王子查理外套来自 |
| 107 | the charity shop just down the road from my house in Dundee. | 从我邓迪家来的慈善店 |
| 108 | So clearly, there are choices to be made of finding something much more ethically produced than we currently do have. | 因此,显然,需要做出一些选择,找到比我们目前更有道德价值的东西。 |
| 109 | However, despite having options there, most people do not make these choices. | 然而,尽管那里有选择,但大多数人并不作出这些选择。 |
| 110 | But we can all agree that most people believe in climate change. | 但我们都同意,大多数人相信气候变化。 |
| 111 | They don't like the exploitation of labour. | 他们不喜欢剥削劳工。 |
| 112 | But why don't they still make these choices? | 他们为什么不做这些选择呢? |
| 113 | It's because they're tired. | 是因为他们累了 |
| 114 | It's because they feel they're powerless in the fight. | 因为他们觉得自己在战斗中无能为力. |
| 115 | After all, we cannot run away from the same tidal facts that brought this debate into existence. | 毕竟,我们不能逃避引起这场辩论的同样潮汐的事实。 |
| 116 | The huge amount of control exerted by big business in our society. | 社会上大企业施加的巨大控制. |
| 117 | 70% of global emissions are produced by just 100 companies. | 全球排放的70%是由100家公司生产的。 |
| 118 | More lobbying dollars are spent every year in Britain and America trying to break up trade union movements | 每年在英国和美国 花更多的游说费 试图破坏工会运动 |
| 119 | than are spent on the climate change issue. | 而不是用于气候变化问题。 |
| 120 | But despite the captains of capitalism, who are crushing the methods that would offer us | 但是,尽管资本主义的船长, 他们正在粉碎的方法 为我们提供 |
| 121 | an alternative ethical system, instead of getting rid of them, | 一个替代的道德制度,而不是摆脱他们, |
| 122 | we are in fact entrusting them with the future of our society. | 事实上,我们委托他们负责我们社会的未来。 |
| 123 | Does anybody know? | 有人知道吗? |
| 124 | No, thank you. | 不 谢谢 |
| 125 | Does anybody know which group had the largest number of delegates at COP26? | 是否有人知道哪个集团在缔约方会议第二十六届会议上的代表人数最多? |
| 126 | Simon Mundy knows. | 西蒙・曼迪知道。 |
| 127 | He reported on it. | 他报告了此事。 |
| 128 | It was the fossil fuel industry, which had more than double of the UK delegation. | 化石燃料工业是联合王国代表团的两倍多。 |
| 129 | Now, who is invited to all these climate change conferences? | 现在,邀请谁参加所有这些气候变化会议? |
| 130 | Bill Gates and Leonardo DiCaprio. | 比尔·盖茨和莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥. |
| 131 | One of them has spent his whole life exploiting cheap labour for mining materials that goes into his technology. | 其中一人一生都在利用廉价劳动力来开采进入他技术的材料. |
| 132 | And the other flies around the world in his private jet. | 而其他的则用他的私人飞机环游世界. |
| 133 | We've handed the keys of our future to the very people that put us here in the first place. | 我们把未来的关键 交给了当初把我们带到这里的人 |
| 134 | They have no desire to change. | 他们没有改变的愿望。 |
| 135 | Otherwise, they already would have. | 否则,他们早就知道了。 |
| 136 | Members, we are all participants in this system. | 各位成员,我们都是这一体系的参与者。 |
| 137 | We have all bought products that we know have been made in fundamentally unethical ways. | 我们都购买了我们所知道的产品,这些产品是以根本不道德的方式制造的。 |
| 138 | And I know I have painted a very bleak and at times scary picture of the world. | 我知道我画了一个非常阴暗, 有时可怕的世界。 |
| 139 | But we don't need to keep living like this. | 但我们不需要继续这样生活 |
| 140 | We can start setting up cooperative and worker-owned businesses that give people a fair wage. | 我们可以开始建立合作社和工人拥有的企业,给予人们公平的工资。 |
| 141 | We can start putting in policies taxing corporations who are the worst offenders of the climate crisis. | 我们可以开始制订政策,对气候危机最严重犯罪者的公司征税。 |
| 142 | I worry, however, members, that we leave the chamber tonight. | 然而,我担心,各位成员,我们今晚离开会议厅。 |
| 143 | People feel, well, the world's in a bad space, but it will just get better on its own. | 人们觉得,世界处在一个糟糕的空间里, 但是它只会自己变得更好。 |
| 144 | And it's such a shame that it's in that way. | 然则此法之所为,实为愧矣. |
| 145 | Members, we can't stand for this. | 会员们,我们不能忍受这一点。 |
| 146 | It's time to organise. | 是时候组织起来了 |
| 147 | It's time to not just ask for a better world, but start demanding a better world. | 不仅应该要求建立一个更美好的世界,而且应该开始要求一个更美好的世界。 |
| 148 | Vote like your life depends on it. | 投票就像你的生活取决于它。 |
| 149 | Take to the streets protesting for change. | 走上街头抗议变革。 |
| 150 | And start supporting sustainable and non-exploitative production methods. | 并开始支持可持续和非开发性生产方法。 |
| 151 | The climate crisis is not inevitable. | 气候危机并非不可避免的。 |
| 152 | The exploitation of workers is not inevitable. | 剥削工人并非不可避免的。 |
| 153 | But the change we want to see is not inevitable either, unless we seize it now. | 但是,我们希望看到的变化也不是不可避免的,除非我们现在抓住它。 |
| 154 | For the sake of our society and for the sake of yourselves, you must vote side proposition tonight. | 为了我们的社会 也为了你们自己 今晚你们必须投票 |
| 155 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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