Dialogue@ZJU：ZJUer voices for SDGs (Episode 2)

[Editor’s Note: This past summer experienced extremely high heat, coupled with more and more frequent droughts and floods. Is this some punishment for over-industrialization? And where are we heading? ZHANG Yuting (Translation, ’23), at the CGTN's program - The Young Speakers, pointed out that we do not live on an isolated island called my world. She called on young people to develop the capacity to handle the technological power appropriately.] 

Quotes from the presentation:

- I find myself thinking about the beginning of life itself from a mono-cell in the sea to the majestic, glorious dinosaurs. It's hard to grasp the very concept that I walk on the same ground that these majestic, archaic creatures used to roam on. But somehow, they became extinct, leaving us humans on top of the food chain.

-We learn our lessons on the way, making improvements, even creating amassing landmark technological power that is rapidly changing our future, our world. But we have to or at least try to develop the capacity to handle that power as well, which means to be able to anticipate and to accept the consequences, including but not limited to global warming, climate change, nuclear proliferation, pandemic, what have you.

- I don't think it is appropriate that I only talk about my future and my world because I do not live on an isolated island called my world. I live in a global community with a shared future, where these problems could make or break us. And to every problem, I believe there's a solution.

Video credit: CGTN; ZHANG Yuting