In the late 1990s, the social scientist and author Mayer Hillman predicted that, in the future, our children and grandchildren would ask us what we did to prevent global climate catastrophe.(20世纪90年代末，社会科学家、作家迈耶·希尔曼预言，未来我们的子孙会质问我们：为防止全球气候灾难，我们做了什么。) Twenty years later Greta Thunberg, addressing the UN, thundered(怒吼): “You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you.”
20世纪90年代末，社会科学家、作家迈耶·希尔曼预言，未来我们的子孙会质问我们：为防止全球气候灾难，我们做了什么。二十年后，格蕾塔·通贝里在联合国慷慨陈词：“你们辜负了我们。但年轻人开始看清你们的背叛。所有未来世代的目光都注视着你们。”
Twenty-five years ago, Hillman also warned that public denial of the climate crisis would only begin to crack when people in the global north were personally affected – by the creation of millions of environmental refugees from uninhabitable parts of the world, for instance, or after their homes had been flooded several times over and they could no longer insure them.(希尔曼还警告说，公众对气候危机的否认态度，只有在全球北方的人们切身受到影响时才会开始松动——例如，当世界某些地区变得无法居住，数百万环境难民由此产生；或者当他们的家园多次被洪水淹没，再也无法投保时。)
二十五年前，希尔曼还警告说，公众对气候危机的否认态度，只有在全球北方的人们切身受到影响时才会开始松动——例如，当世界某些地区变得无法居住，数百万环境难民由此产生；或者当他们的家园多次被洪水淹没，再也无法投保时。
Hillman, who has died aged 94, not only anticipated social and environmental problems decades in advance of most other people, he also came up with solutions that seemed outlandish at the time but are now considered unremarkable.(希尔曼去世，享年94岁。他不仅比大多数人提前几十年预见了社会和环境问题，还提出了当时看似古怪、如今却被视为寻常的解决方案。)
希尔曼去世，享年94岁。他不仅比大多数人提前几十年预见了社会和环境问题，还提出了当时看似古怪、如今却被视为寻常的解决方案。