译文
气候倡导的长者
作者：Olivia Rudgard
2021 年 9 月一个早晨，我发现自己在环形交叉路口旁边，伦敦郊区，观察一场抗议。抗议组织是 Insulate Britain，也是在一周尚未结束时候，在高速公路静坐示威，吸引注意力来关注英国贫乏的、绝缘的地产股票。
of sit-ins on motorways 高速公路上静坐示威
sit-ins 静坐示威
roundabout 环形交叉路口
从路边观察，我有 2 个想法：这是不舒适的、危险的工作。你坐在地上，还拿着横幅，而人们向你开车。然后他们会向你吼叫，然后你会被捕。第二点，数量惊人的抗议者，居然是退休人员。
想想这些气候倡导者，我打赌（提到这些），会有些年轻人像 Greta Thunberg 出现在脑海。可能他们正辍学参加罢工（be on strike from school），这个询问一个联合国的、灰发世界的领袖，他们如何容忍自己，由于在减少排放问题上没有表现得更紧急。
be on strike from school 辍学参加罢工
然而，现代气候抗议者，人口统计学上是很多样的。随着我发现很多事如我报道的那样，关于抗议之后的生活。年长者，是排放抗议运动的常客（fixture）。这是非常正确的，在反灭绝抗议（Extinction Rebellion protest）中，指出：有证据显示，被捕者中老年人比例过高，2019 年 heyday 调查显示。
in reporting for my story 所报道的那样
fixture 固定设施
老年人，特别是上了年纪的女性，试图规范地展示出各种抗议方式 Graeme Heyes 说。Heyes 是英国 Aston University 的社会学家，也是这项研究的合作作者。他们扮演重要角色，在立法运动上。“他们无可挑剔，原因是，你要怎么转向，然后说出，未来的利益不涉及你的祖母，或者甚至是个麻烦制造者？这是一种身份，使得你能够很好地组织”他说道。
they're unimpeachable 他们无可挑剔
针对尚在工作年龄的个人，去日间抗议或者经常被捕，是很难以与以下事实和解，即还清抵押贷款或者抚养小孩同时，年轻人倾向于财务上不安全。但是年长之人，通常有时间，有专业知识，还有强烈的意识，关于公民的努力，以及财务稳定。
reconcile with 与……和解
civic 公民的
两组人最近形成在大西洋的两端，来资本化那些特点，以及移动这些灰发抗议运动：第三部美国法案，以及欧洲气候变化的祖父母。译者注：这里指的是，美国出台了相应法案，而欧洲形成一种相传的说法，即“欧洲气候祖父母”，作为对抗议的回应。
on opposite sides of the Atlantic 在大西洋两端
最为环境领域的老兵作者，同时也是活动家和第三部法案发起者 Bill McKibben 这样说到：“如果你试图向华尔街或者美国，或者你所在的州施压，那么拥有像我这样的发际线的人加入，并非全世界最差的计划。”
hairlines 发际线
并非所有晚年抗议者正在冒着被捕得到风险，静坐在车流前面，或者向画作扔汤。取而代之的，有些使用其地位和其他方式应对机构。Cathy Fulkerson，是一位 67 岁第三法案的参与者，她发现必须面对一位银行客户经理，在她因为某家银行投资了化石燃料而去支行取消了账户之后。
later-in-life 晚年
use their standing 使用他们的立场
confront institutions in other ways 以其他方式应对机构
这是一种不舒适的互动，她说到，但却有价值。“在离开或者反应这些，我非常兴奋。”她说到，“深入其内心是好事情”。
under their skin 深入他们的内心
本周要闻
1.Z 世代拥有性别裂痕，提到气候变化时。18 至 29 岁的女性，变得更加关注气候变化，相较于男性，依据 Gallup 民意测验。这个差距越发扩大，可能与更广阔的政治上态度变化有关。
2.硅谷精英拥有新的宠物项目：锁定太阳。风险资本家、创业者，以及技术公司执行官，都在资助学习、实验、小型的关于争议科技的部署，这些争议科技通常能使得地球变凉。
3.创业公司正在制造电池，能够帮助防止忽然停电（blackout）。Form Energy 已然发展了电池，这些电池能够提供电力到电网（power grid）直达 100 小时，比起今天大多数电池时间要长 25 倍。其 CEO 说到，这些电池能够保证电网“比天气持续得久”。
rift 裂痕
blackout 忽然停电
for 100 hours straight 直达 100 小时
4.纽约城市基金（New York City's pension fund）会变得更艰难，在化石燃料领域。审计长 Brad Lander 已然提出，禁止未来对能源基础设施的投资，例如管道和液化的天然气终端，在私人投资领域，以及基础设施的投资组合。
5.摩根斯坦利正在投资（paying）碳吸附空气（相关技术）。银行进入一项协议，同瑞士创业公司 Climeworks 的协议，内容是移除 4 万吨空气中的碳氧化物，这项举措使得该公司进入了美国市场。
barring future investments in energy infrastructure 禁止未来对能源基础设施的投资
suck carbon 吸碳
comptroller 审计长
一周听闻
随着共和党、民主党拉票者开启最后一轮推介，以获取美国的投票。著名科技投资者 Vinod Khosla 力挺 Harris （make the case for Harris），还考虑到非常特殊观众，Elon Musk。在其亿万富翁同僚所拥有的社交平台上，Khosla 已然发布了一系列案例，关于某某人发布了前总统特朗普是个不合适的候选人，对于这个星球的未来而言。
尽管 Khosla 是个前共和党人，他在一场面试中说到，他将要投票给 Harris。然而，他并不期待科技投资人看到很多余波，无论谁能胜出。“我并不认为，两党的政策会有什么差异，如果说到科技的话。”
canvassers 拉票者。通常需要在画布上画蓝图。
has been making the case for Vice President Kamala Harris 一直在为 Harris 辩护
with a very specific audience in mind 考虑到非常特殊观众
fallout 余波，沉降物
原文
The climate elders
By Olivia Rudgard
On an early morning in September 2021, I found myself on the side of a roundabout in the London suburbs watching a radical protest. The group Insulate Britain was in the midst of a week of sit-ins on motorways to draw attention to Britain’s poorly insulated housing stock.
Watching from the roadside, I had two thoughts: This is uncomfortable, dangerous work. You sit on the ground with a banner, and people drive at you. Then they yell at you. Then you get arrested. And secondly, a surprising number of the protesters were retirees.
Think of a climate activist, and I bet someone young like Greta Thunberg comes to mind. Maybe they’re on strike from school or asking gray-haired world leaders at the UN how they can possibly live with themselves for not acting more urgently to cut emissions.
But modern climate protesters are demographically diverse, as I found in reporting for my story about activism later in life. Older people are a fixture of the movement fighting for emissions cuts. That’s particularly true at Extinction Rebellion protests: There’s evidence that older folks were disproportionately present among those arrested,research from the group’s 2019 heyday suggests.
Older people — especially older women — tend to show up regularly at all manner of protests, says Graeme Hayes, a sociologist at Aston University in the UK and a co-author of that study. And they play a vital role in legitimizing movements. “They're unimpeachable, because how can you possibly turn around and say the grandmothers have no stake in the future and are somehow troublemakers? It's an identity that you can organize around,” he says.
For working-age individuals, going to daytime protests and constantly getting arrested is difficult to reconcile with paying off a mortgage and raising a young child. Meanwhile, young adults tend to be financially insecure. But older people usually have time, expertise, a strong sense of civic engagement and financial stability.
Two groups have recently formed on opposite sides of the Atlantic to capitalize on those traits and mobilize the gray-haired protest movement: Third Act in the US, and European Grandparents for Climate in Europe.
As veteran environmental writer, campaigner and founder of Third Act Bill McKibben put it, “If you want to pressure Washington or Wall Street or your state capital, having some people with hairlines like mine is not the worst plan in the world.”
Not all later-in-life protesters are risking arrest sitting in front of traffic or throwing soup at paintings. Instead, some use their standing to confront institutions in other ways. Cathy Fulkerson, a 67-year-old Third Act member, found herself facing off against a bank manager after she went into a branch to cancel her card because of the bank’s new fossil fuel investments.
It was an uncomfortable interaction, she says, but also a worthwhile one. “After leaving and reflecting on that, I was thrilled,” she says. “It's good to get under their skin.”
This week we learned
1.Gen Z has a gender rift when it comes to climate change. Women ages 18 to 29 are becoming more concerned about climate change than their male peers, according to Gallup polling. The widening gap may be tied to broader shifts in political attitudes.
2.Silicon Valley elites have a new pet project: blocking the sun. Venture capitalists, startup founders and tech executives are funding studies, experiments and small deployments of controversial technology that could cool the planet.
3.A startup is building batteries that could help prevent blackouts. Form Energy has developed batteries that can feed electricity to the power grid for 100 hours straight, 25 times longer than most batteries today. Its CEO says they can help ensure the grid is “larger than the weather.”
4.New York City’s pension fund could get tougher on fossil fuels. Comptroller Brad Lander has proposed barring future investments in energy infrastructure such as pipelines and liquefied natural gas terminals from private equity and infrastructure portfolios.
5.Morgan Stanley is paying to suck carbon from the air. The bank entered into an agreement with Swiss startup Climeworks to remove 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air, aiding the company’s expansion into the US market.
Weekend listening
As Republican and Democratic canvassers make their final push to get out the US vote, the famed tech investor Vinod Khosla has been making the case for Vice President Kamala Harris with a very specific audience in mind: Elon Musk. On the social media platform owned by his fellow billionaire, Khosla has pressed the case in a series of X posts that former President Donald Trump is the wrong candidate for the future of the planet.
Although Khosla is a former Republican, he says in an interview that he will be voting for Harris. But he doesn’t expect tech investors to see much fallout no matter who wins. “I don't think there'll be any difference in policy between the two when it comes to tech.”
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