三、 The rapid march of climate change up the global agenda has prompted a new, and
often poignant, conversation between the generations and, in public, among a selfappointed
elite.
At its core, that conversation is about whether some of the first beneficiaries of the
wonders developed during the past century — like electricity at the flick of a switch —
have the means, or the will, to help their descendants with the consequences of burning
vast quantities of fossil fuels.
The conversation also is playing itself out across the planet as leaders, industrialists
and citizens confront issues too costly for any single nation or generation to tackle alone.
For a group of 20th-century leaders called the Elders — whose members include
Archbishop Tutu of South Africa, former President Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson, a
former Irish president — it also was a conversation with their families that they felt would
be most usefully conducted before the cameras.（25 分）
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