以下文字为美国电视节目《60分钟》主持人丹·拉瑟(Dan
Rather),为杨澜访谈录六周年征文所写的回函,在此与各位分享。
TO OUR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN’S CHILDREN…
Dan Rather
Interestingly, as we write to you living in the year 2107, we do
so in a time of great concern about the future you know firsthand.
Do you live on a planet transformed by global climate change? Have
the industrialized and developing nations of the world found
solutions to the interlocking problems of energy and pollution?
Have demographic pressures and the fierce competition for scarce
resources continued to sire armed conflict, or have you found some
way to transcend humanity’s bloody history?
We hunger for the answers to these questions, for the outcomes
only you can know. Do you praise the choices we have made—or do
you, as we fear, curse our folly and shortsightedness, our
inability or refusal to plan for the time you now inhabit?
When we look back on 100 years, we see the best of times
and the worst of times. We see leaps in scientific progress that
have cured disease, eased toil, and unraveled the secrets of our
universe; we also see an environment poisoned by industrial waste
and the development o...[
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2007-08-18 13:53:44
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