1、Christine住在一个小岛上,很多居民住在海边或在海上,全球变暖对于他们来说是很危险的事。Todd: Christine youre from Papua New Guinea?Christine: Yes, were a small island in the South Pacific. Todd: And that is near Australia?Christine: Just above Australia. Todd: Like how far is it from Australia?Christine: To Brisbane its 3 hours by plane.
2、To the tip of Australia its about an hour and a half by boat. Todd: We were talking earlier about global warming and how this can be a problem for your island.Christine: Oh, absolutely, because were surrounded by water, obviously it creates a problem when the tides rise. Todd: Because the tides rise
3、, and the water.Christine: The tides rise, and a lot of people build their homes and villages around the water.cause the ocean is where we get our food from, most of our costal villages are based there, so, yeah! Todd: The people put their houses close to the water.Christine: Close to the water or o
4、n the water Todd: So what do you think about global warming? I mean, what do you think should be done?Christine: Like we were talking about it earlier, I am very much for the Kyoto Protocol I think that industrial countries, industrialized countries need to act now before theres too much, how do you
5、 say?, before even more damage is done. Obviously being from a small country where people arent educated about these things we dont realize what is really happening, but we are really starting to realize now and we and other small nations have spoken out about it and its good to know that bigger cou
6、ntries are doing something about it, and I think thing needs to be done now, rather than waiting, which is happening with governments which are under economical stress right now.they havent done enough.they know the situation, they know theyre responsible for it. Were the ones who are suffering because of it even though we dont add to it. Yeah, so I think they should do something.第 1 页