大學英語勵志演講稿2025（精選7篇）
大學英語勵志演講稿2025 篇1
尊敬的各位領導老師，親愛的同學們：
大家晚上好!
首先感謝創(chuàng)業(yè)協(xié)會為我們提供這樣一個演講的平臺，讓我們暢談青春的夢想。我今天的演講題目是《讓青春絢麗綻放》。
親愛的同學們，今晚我的演講可能會改變你大學生活的態(tài)度和方式，甚至改變你的人生，你們想聽嗎?請大聲告訴我，好嗎?那么，接下來讓我來問大家一個問題，來到我們學院，你們對這里條件設施感覺如何呢?我聽到有些同學說還不錯，有些同學說一般般，也有些同學說沒有感覺。那么接下來讓我們來看一組圖片，這是國內某些一流高校的圖片，看完這些圖片，可能就有一些同學會在心里驚嘆，咦!他們的校園真漂亮，他們的條件設施真不錯!的確，他們的校園很美麗，他們的條件設施和人文環(huán)境更是一流的!同學們，為什么要讓大家看這些圖片呢?親愛的同學們，我們要時刻銘記：曾經(jīng)在一場戰(zhàn)爭中，我們失去了享有國內最好教育資源的機會。但是同學們，這能意味著我們這輩子只能享有低一檔的條件，這能意味著我們這輩子只能過低一檔的生活嗎?!對!不，不能!同樣風華正茂，同樣心懷夢想，我們有權利想有更好的條件，我們有權利過更高一檔的生活，我們更有權利讓自己的青春絢麗綻放!
親愛的同學們，雖然我們的學院沒985,211那樣一流高校的條件設施和人文環(huán)境，但既然我們來到了這里，我們的大學生活將在這里度過，這里將是我們攀登理想高峰的新起點，這里將是我們積累知識閱歷的新家園。只要我們拿出“吹進黃沙始到金”的毅力，只要我們拿出“直掛云帆濟滄�！钡挠職�，我們同樣可以洋溢著燦爛的笑容去編織著青春的夢想，我們同樣可以在這繽紛的世界里找到屬于自己的精彩!
大學時光的每個日子里，傾注了我們親人多少的期盼和關懷，他們流淌著辛勤的汗水，默默地支持著我們的選擇，他們唯一的希望就是我們能走出屬于自己的一條道路!但讓我們來看一看，身邊有多少同學在課堂肆無忌憚的玩手機，甚至睡覺;又有多少人不分晝夜甚至逃課打游戲!青春的生命止步于小小的屏幕之前;青春的生命被虛幻的`游戲畫面所囚困!試問，他們的大學生活能收獲什么?他們的大學生活會收獲什么?恐怕只有悔恨和淚水了!游戲人生終將被人生游戲!淺顯的道理人人都懂，他們卻無暇理會!
親愛的同學們，大學生活我們能收獲什么?我們應該收獲什么?我們將收獲的不僅僅是一紙文品，更多的是知識和能力的增長!我期盼，大學生活之后我們都能夠成為“高富帥”，高在學識，富在精神，美在心靈;大學生活之后，我期盼我們都能夠成為白富美，白在品質。富在內涵，美在心靈。我很激動，因為在這里我看到了老師們兢兢業(yè)業(yè)的付出;我很高興，因為在這里我看到了很多同學激情飽滿地在分團委，學生會和學生社團中做事情，提升自己的能力，為實現(xiàn)自己的夢想做鋪墊!我也看到了有很多同學在熱情地做著兼職甚至創(chuàng)業(yè)。我很慶幸，因為我看到了寢室的兄弟們做作業(yè)有時會做到深夜!我很興奮，因為在這里我看到了大部分人的大學生活是如此的豐富多彩!
“寶劍鋒從磨礪出，梅花香自苦寒來”，我堅信“一分耕耘一分收獲”。我渴望，我期盼在大學能夠學富五車，碩果累累，大家也都一樣吧，都渴望在大學碩果累累吧，那么就讓我們珍惜美好的大學時光，珍惜時光，珍惜機遇，珍惜師生之誼和同學之情;珍惜親情，珍惜友情，珍惜學校榮譽和求學環(huán)境。大學將是我們人生中最后一次系統(tǒng)性的接受教育的時光;大學將是我們最后一次可以將大量的時間用于學習的人生歷程，大學將是我們最后一次可以擁有較高的可塑性全面充實自我的人生階段。如果說大學是一個學習和進步的平臺，那么這個平臺的地基就是大學里的基礎課程，因此在這里我們一定要學好數(shù)學英語計算機和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)這些基礎課程，因此在這里我們一定要充分利用好圖書館計算機和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)這些資源，培養(yǎng)自己獨立思考和探索的能力。
大學生活可以是甜的，也可以是苦的，但不能是沒有味道的!在大學我們可以用年輕的汗水去澆灌青春的夢想之花;在大學，我們可以在年輕的心壁上雕琢一種激情，一種像向上的力量;在大學，我們可以在夢想的天空畫上斑斕五彩，為青春鮮艷上色!我相信大學生活會因我們的珍惜努力而風味獨具，我堅信大學時光會因我們的奮進探索而精彩紛呈!
在我的演講接近尾聲之際，有一句話想與大家共勉“第一個青春是上帝給的，第二個青春是靠自己打拼的”。
最后預祝大家在大學生活之后都能夠成為“高富帥”，“白富美”，更能讓自己的青春絢麗綻放!
我的演講完畢，謝謝!
大學英語勵志演講稿2025 篇2
尊敬的各位領導老師，親愛的同學們：
大家晚上好!
人的生活方式有兩種，第一種是像草一樣活著，你盡管活著，每年還在成長，但是你畢竟是一棵草，你吸收雨露陽光，但是長不大，人們可以踩過你，但是人們不會因為你的痛苦他也產(chǎn)生痛苦，人們不會因為你被踩了，而來憐憫你，因為人們本來就沒有看到你，所以我們每一個人都應該像樹一樣的成長，即使我們現(xiàn)在什么都不是，但是只要你有樹的種子，即使被人踩到泥土中間，你依然能夠吸收泥土的養(yǎng)分，自己成長起來，也許兩年三年你長不大，但是八年，十年，二十年，你一定能長成參天大樹，當你長成參天大樹以后，遙遠的地方，人們就能看到你，走近你，你能給人一片綠色，一片陰涼，你能幫助別人，即使人們離開你以后，回頭一看，你依然是地平線上一道美麗的風景線，樹活著是美麗的風景，死了依然是棟梁之材，活著死了都有用，這就是我們每一個同學做人的標準和成長的標準。
容忍
你不能忍受的事情，但是你不得不忍受，而不忍受就不可能成功我們未來生活最重要的一個能力，叫做忍辱負重的能力，你不能忍受的事情，但是你不得不忍受而不忍受就不可能成功，當我們自己的生命要想為一個偉大的目標而奮斗的時候，你必須排除你生命中一切瑣碎的干擾，你設想一個場景，假如說你在路上被一輛自行車軋了一下，你奮起反擊，結果一不小心你的鼻梁骨被打斷了，最后在醫(yī)院躺了一個月，你的生命就被醫(yī)院消滅了一個月，但是如果倒過來說，這是小事，我還有更重要的事情呢，你就告訴他對不起把路給你擋了，對方再蠻橫無禮，他還能揍你嗎？還能打你嗎?他馬上就會說說我不好，對不起，于是生命中的一件小事就化解掉了，韓信就是因為鉆了人家的褲襠，最后才幫劉邦打下了天下，你要知道，這個世界上，你只有忍辱負重才能發(fā)展，你得為自己爭取時間，爭取空間，爭取未來，而爭取時間空間未來最重要的一個前提就是你有理想，但是你敢于忍受生活中出現(xiàn)的一切對你的不公平或者是一切你認為受不了的事情。
水的精神
我有一個比喻，每一條河流都有自己不同的生命曲線，每一條河流都有自己的夢想，那就是奔向大海，當我們遇到困難的時候，不管是沖過去還是繞過去，只要我們能過去就行，我希望大家能使自己的生命向夢想流過去，像長江黃河一樣，能流到自己夢想的盡頭，進入寬闊的海洋，使自己的事業(yè)也變得開闊，但是并不是說你想流就能流動過去的，其實這里面要具備一種精神，這就是水的精神，我們的生命有的時候會是泥沙，盡管你也跟著水一直往前流，但是由于你個性的缺陷，面對困難的退步或者說膽怯，你可能慢慢的就會像泥沙一樣，沉淀下去了，一旦你沉淀下去了，也許你不用再為了前進而努力了，但是你卻永遠見不到陽光了，上面的泥沙會不斷的把你壓住，最后你會暗無天日，所以我會建議大家，不管你現(xiàn)在的生命是怎么樣的，一定要有水的精神，哪怕被污染了也能洗凈自己，像水一樣不斷的繼續(xù)自己的力量，不斷的沖破障礙，當你發(fā)現(xiàn)時機不到的時候，把自己的厚度積累起來，當有一天時機來臨的時候，你就能夠奔騰入海成就自己的生命。
大學英語勵志演講稿2025 篇3
Over the past Spring Festival, I got involved in a family dispute. Rightbefore I got home, four satellite channels of CCTV were added to the 14 channelswe had already had. In prime time at night, they all had interesting shows.Therefore, the five of us-my parents, my sisters and I-had to argue over what towatch. Finally, we agreed that we should watch the "most interesting"programme... If we could agree what that was.
However, all of us there remember that for a long time after we had TV,there were only one or two channels available. The increase in options revealsan important change in our life: the abundance of choice.
Fifteen years ago we all dressed in one style and in one colour. Today, weselect from a wide variety of designs and shades.
Fifteen years ago, we read few newspapers. Today, we read Englishnewspapers like the China Daily and the 21st Century, as well as various Chinesenewspapers.
Fifteen years ago, English majors took only courses in language andliterature. Today, we also study Western culture, journalism, businesscommunications, international relations, and computer science.
The emergence of choices marks the beginning of a new era in China'shistory; an era of diversity, of material and cultural richness, and an era ofthe rebirth of the Chinese nation.
大學英語勵志演講稿2025 篇4
When finishing the high school course, not every student has the chance or ability to go to college. some students choose to seek a job, start their own business or pursue other interest. however, for some students who want to get further education, they choose self-education, self-education is no better than university studies.
On the one hand, self-education lacks of a well-defined structure. in the school, the teacher will make some plans for students’ studies; they plan the target, the fulfillment of expectation and assessment of the program. with these, students can know their own flaws, making progress gradually. while self-learners may lose themselves, they have no test, no homework and no exam; it is hard for them to know how to get improved.
On the other hand, self-education doesn’t provide the environment which students can learn from each other. college provides students the stage to communicate with others, making friends; students can also have the chance to enhance the ability of team work and readership. those abilities are very important for students, when they are finding a job, they have the advantages.
Self-education is a way of gaining knowledge; i prefer to study in college, because i like to communicate with friends. though self-education can’t take place for university studies, we can choose to learn elective courses in that way.
大學英語勵志演講稿2025 篇5
Facing this audience on the stage, I have the exciting feeling of participating in the march of history, for what we are facing today is more than a mere competition or contest. It is an assembly of some of China's most talented and motivated people, representatives of a younger generation that are preparing themselves for the coming of a new century.
I'm grateful that I've been given this opportunity, at such a historic moment, to stand here as a spokesman of my generation and to take a serious look back at the past 15 years, a crucial period for every one of us and for this nation as well.
Though it is only within my power to tell about my personal experience, and only a tiny fragment of it at that, it still represents, I believe, the root of a spirit which has been essential to me and to all the people bred by the past 15 years.
In my elementary years, there was a little girl in the CLASs who worked very hard but somehow could never do satisfactorily in her lessons.
The teacher asked me to help her, and it was obvious that she expected a lot from me. but as a young boy, restless, thoughtless, I always tried to evade her so as to get more time to enjoy myself.
One day before the final exam, she came up to me and said, "Could you please explain this to me? I want very much to do better this time. " I started explaining, and finished in a hurry. Pretending not to notice her still confused eyes, I ran off quickly. Nat surprisingly, she again did very badly in the exam. And two months later, at the beginning of the new semester, word came of her death of blood cancer. No one ever knew about the little task I failed to fulfill, but I couldn't forgive myself. I simply couldn't forget her eyes, which seem to be asking, "Why didn't you do a little more to help me, when it was so easy for you? Why didn't you understand a little better the trust placed in you, so that I would not have to leave this world in such pain and regret?"
I was about eight or nine years old at that time, but in a way it was the very starting point of my life, for I began to understand the word "responsibility" and to learn to always do my duties faithfully and devotedly, for the implications of that sacred word has dawned on me: the mutual need and trust of people, the co-operation and inter-reliance which are the very foundation of human society.
Later in my life, I continued to experience many failures. But never again did I feel that regret which struck me at the death of the girl, for it makes my heart satisfied to think that I have always done everything in my power to fulfill my responsibilities as best I can.
As I grew up, changed and improved by this incident and many other similar ones, I began to perceive the changes taking place around me and to find that society, in a way, was in its formative years like myself. New buildings, new commodities and new fashions appear every day. New ideas, new information, new technologies. People can talk with each other from any corner of the earth in a matter of seconds. Society is becoming more competitive.
Words like individuality and creativity are getting more emphasis and more people are rewarded for their hard work and efforts. Such is the era in which this generation ,grows and matures.
Such is the era in which this generation will take over the nation from our fathers and learn to run it. Yet in the meantime, many problems still exist.
We learn that crimes take place in broad daylight with crowds of people looking on and not assisting. We hear that there are still about 1 million children in this country who can't even afford to go to elementary schools while enormous sums of money are being squandered away on dinner parties and luxury cars.
We buy shoddy medicines, or merely worthless junk in the name of medicines, that aggravate, rather than alleviate our diseases since money, many people believe, is the most important thing in the world that must be made, even at the expense of morality and responsibility.
Such an era, therefore, determines that we are a generation with a keener sense of competition and efficiency and a greater readiness to think critically and act creatively.
Such an era, furthermore, demands, that we are a generation with a clear perception of our historical responsibility and an aggressive will to take action and solve the problems. History has long been preparing these qualities in this generation and it is now calling us forward to give testimony to our patriotism and heroism towards this nation and all humanity.
Standing here now, I think of the past 15 years of my life as an ordinary student. Probably I'll be an ordinary man for the rest of my life. But this doesn't discourage me any, for I know that with my sense of responsibility and devoted efforts to always strive, for the best, it's going to be a meaningful and worthwhile life that I will be living.
Standing here now, I think of the past 15 years of this nation, which has achieved greatness that inspired millions of people of my age, most of whom will not attain fame or prestige and only a few of whom will be remembered by posterity. But that doesn't discourage us any, because we know that the world watches, the world listens, the world is waiting to see where this nation will be heading in a time of rich opportunities and fierce competition.
I can't ever forget that little girl in my CLASS who couldn't had the same opportunities as any of us here to enjoy a wonderful life today and a hopeful world tomorrow.
It is the sacred responsibility of this generation to face up to the challenges of the new century and to devote our sweat and blood, our wisdom and passion, to the historic cause of making this nation a greater and happier land for every one of us. We are not going to evade that responsibility. We are going to let people down. And people, far and near, will hear of us. Frost will be brought to their backbones and tears to their eyes when our stories are told and retold, So let us go forth, my fellow members of this luckily chosen generation, and meet the new century in victory and glory.
Knowing the Consequences of Choice
Over the past Spring Festival, I got involved in a family dispute. Right before I got home, four satellite channels of CCTV were added to the 14 channels we had already had. In prime time at night, they all had interesting shows. Therefore, the five of us-my parents, my sisters and I-had to argue over what to watch. Finally, we agreed that we should watch the "most interesting" programme... If we
could agree what that was.
However, all of us there remember that for a long time after we had TV, there were only one or two channels available. The increase in options reveals an important change in our life: the abundance of choice.
Fifteen years ago we all dressed in one style and in one colour. Today, we select from a wide variety of designs and shades.
I Regain Confidence
By Li Jun
大學英語勵志演講稿2025 篇6
Good morning everyone. my name is . today my topic is my college life. i wish i could share my happiness and annoyance i have experienced with you all.
Two years ago i came into the city of qinhuangdao and started my college life in E&A college, the most memorable journey of my life. i was just a shy and little boy that time. all the things seemed fresh to me: new faces, military training, large library and physics lab etc. i breathed the air of college greedily, but to tell the truth, the air in Qinhuangdao is wonderful. it’s really hard to explain my feelings that time: curious? energetic? in one word, i was really happy that time.
And now i am going to be a junior in july. recalling to the two years, i think i have to talk about one thing-----learning. learn how to study independently, learn how to get along with others, learn to love, learn to… oh, there are too much things we have to learn.
Comparing with senior high school, college is a rather different place. there aren’t so many people to watch you and guide you how to do something any more, neither are there so many students who share with you one dream. in college, you must think and study yourself, so you have to learn and practice to control yourself.
The relationship between boys and girls in college is always love. i fell in love too. that was the second year in college; i fell in love with a girl who is cute and beautiful. i was sweet then. but because i didn’t know how to deal with the relationship, my first love failed at last. bitterness filled my life from then on. i really appreciated that god brought another girl into my life. she is my classmate in senior high school. i like to call her “yatou”. in my difficult time, she was with me, relieving me. gradually i found i like to talk to her and being with her is really comfortable. i think i love her and this time i won’t let her go. another relationship in college is friendship. my roommates have lived two years with me. in these years, they forgive my faults, cry with me, laugh with me, play with me… they always stand with me and support me, i have learned a lot from them. i love them all and treasure the friendship with them.
That’s my college life. i cherish all i have experienced in college. i love you, my college!
That’s all, thank you
大學英語勵志演講稿2025 篇7
thank you. thank you, president chen, chairmen ren, vice president chi, vice minister wei. we are delighted to be here today with a very large american delegation, including the first lady and our daughter, who is a student at stanford, one of the schools with which beijing university has a relationship. we have six members of the united states congress; the secretary of state; secretary of commerce; the secretary of agriculture; the chairman of our council of economic advisors; senator sasser, our ambassador; the national security advisor and my chief of staff, among others. i say that to illustrate the importance that the united states places on our relationship with china.
i would like to begin by congratulating all of you, the students, the faculty, the administrators, on celebrating the centennial year of your university. gongxi, beida. (applause.)
as i'm sure all of you know, this campus was once home to yenching university which was founded by american missionaries. many of its wonderful buildings were designed by an american architect. thousands of americans students and professors have come here to study and teach. we feel a special kinship with you.
i am, however, grateful that this day is different in one important respect from another important occasion 79 years ago. in june of 1919, the first president of yenching university, john leighton stuart, was set to deliver the very first commencement address on these very grounds. at the appointed hour, he appeared, but no students appeared. they were all out leading the may 4th movement for china's political and cultural renewal. when i read this, i hoped that when i walked into the auditorium today, someone would be sitting here. and i thank you for being here, very much. (applause.)
over the last 100 years, this university has grown to more than 20,000 students. your graduates are spread throughout china and around the world. you have built the largest university library in all of asia. last year, 20 percent of your graduates went abroad to study, including half of your math and science majors. and in this anniversary year, more than a million people in china, asia, and beyond have logged on to your web site. at the dawn of a new century, this university is leading china into the future.
i come here today to talk to you, the next generation of china's leaders, about the critical importance to your future of building a strong partnership between china and the united states.
the american people deeply admire china for its thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophy and the arts, to science and technology. we remember well our strong partnership in world war ii. now we see china at a moment in history when your glorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the even greater promise of your future.
just three decades ago, china was virtually shut off from the world. now, china is a member of more than 1,000 international organizations -- enterprises that affect everything from air travel to agricultural development. you have opened your nation to trade and investment on a large scale. today, 40,000 young chinese study in the united states, with hundreds of thousands more learning in asia, africa, europe, and latin america.
your social and economic transformation has been even more remarkable, moving from a closed command economic system to a driving, increasingly market-based and driven economy, generating two decades of unprecedented growth, giving people greater freedom to travel within and outside china, to vote in village elections, to own a home, choose a job, attend a better school. as a result you have lifted literally hundreds of millions of people from poverty. per capita income has more than doubled in the last decade. most chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined just 20 years ago.
of course, these changes have also brought disruptions in settled patterns of life and work, and have imposed enormous strains on your environment. once every urban chinese was guaranteed employment in a state enterprise. now you must compete in a job market. once a chinese worker had only to meet the demands of a central planner in beijing. now the global economy means all must match the quality and creativity of the rest of the world. for those who lack the right training and skills and support, this new world can be daunting.
in the short-term, good, hardworking people -- some, at least will find themselves unemployed. and, as all of you can see, there have been enormous environmental and economic and health care costs to the development pattern and the energy use pattern of the last 20 years -- from air pollution to deforestation to acid rain and water shortage.
in the face of these challenges new systems of training and social security will have to be devised, and new environmental policies and technologies will have to be introduced with the goal of growing your economy while improving the environment. everything i know about the intelligence, the ingenuity, the enterprise of the chinese people and everything i have heard these last few days in my discussions with president jiang, prime minister zhu and others give me confidence that you will succeed.
as you build a new china, america wants to build a new relationship with you. we want china to be successful, secure and open, working with us for a more peaceful and prosperous world. i know there are those in china and the united states who question whether closer relations between our countries is a good thing. but everything all of us know about the way the world is changing and the challenges your generation will face tell us that our two nations will be far better off working together than apart.
the late deng xiaoping counseled us to seek truth from facts. at the dawn of the new century, the facts are clear. the distance between our two nations, indeed, between any nations, is shrinking. where once an american clipper ship took months to cross from china to the united states. today, technology has made us all virtual neighbors. from laptops to lasers, from microchips to megabytes, an information revolution is lighting the landscape of human knowledge, bringing us all closer together. ideas, information, and money cross the planet at the stroke of a computer key, bringing with them extraordinary opportunities to create wealth, to prevent and conquer disease, to foster greater understanding among peoples of different histories and different cultures.
but we also know that this greater openness and faster change mean that problems which start beyond one nations borders can quickly move inside them -- the spread of weapons of mass destruction, the threats of organized crime and drug trafficking, of environmental degradation, and severe economic dislocation. no nation can isolate itself from these problems, and no nation can solve them alone. we, especially the younger generations of china and the united states, must make common cause of our common challenges, so that we can, together, shape a new century of brilliant possibilities.
in the 21st century -- your century -- china and the united states will face the challenge of security in asia. on the korean peninsula, where once we were adversaries, today we are working together for a permanent peace and a future freer of nuclear weapons.
on the indian subcontinent, just as most of the rest of the world is moving away from nuclear danger, india and pakistan risk sparking a new arms race. we are now pursuing a common strategy to move india and pakistan away from further testing and toward a dialogue to resolve their differences.
in the 21st century, your generation must face the challenge of stopping the spread of deadlier nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. in the wrong hands or the wrong places, these weapons can threaten the peace of nations large and small. increasingly, china and the united states agree on the importance of stopping proliferation. that is why we are beginning to act in concert to control the worlds most dangerous weapons.
in the 21st century, your generation will have to reverse the international tide of crime and drugs. around the world, organized crime robs people of billions of dollars every year and undermines trust in government. america knows all about the devastation and despair that drugs can bring to schools and neighborhoods. with borders on more than a dozen countries, china has become a crossroad for smugglers of all kinds.
last year, president jiang and i asked senior chinese and american law enforcement officials to step up our cooperation against these predators, to stop money from being laundered, to stop aliens from being cruelly smuggled, to stop currencies from being undermined by counterfeiting. just this month, our drug enforcement agency opened an office in beijing, and soon chinese counternarcotics experts will be working out of washington.
in the 21st century, your generation must make it your mission to ensure that today's progress does not come at tomorrow's expense. china's remarkable growth in the last two decades has come with a toxic cost, pollutants that foul the water you drink and the air you breathe -- the cost is not only environmental, it is also serious in terms of the health consequences of your people and in terms of the drag on economic growth.
environmental problems are also increasingly global as well as national. for example, in the near future, if present energy use patterns persist, china will overtake the united states as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the gases which are the principal cause of global warming. if the nations of the world do not reduce the gases which are causing global warming, sometime in the next century there is a serious risk of dramatic changes in climate which will change the way we live and the way we work, which could literally bury some island nations under mountains of water and undermine the economic and social fabric of nations.
we must work together. we americans know from our own experience that it is possible to grow an economy while improving the environment. we must do that together for ourselves and for the world.
building on the work that our vice president, al gore, has done previously with the chinese government, president jiang and i are working together on ways to bring american clean energy technology to help improve air quality and grow the chinese economy at the same time.
but i will say this again -- this is not on my remarks -- your generation must do more about this. this is a huge challenge for you, for the american people and for the future of the world. and it must be addressed at the university level, because political leaders will never be willing to adopt environmental measures if they believe it will lead to large-scale unemployment or more poverty. the evidence is clear that does not have to happen. you will actually have more rapid economic growth and better paying jobs, leading to higher levels of education and technology if we do this in the proper way. but you and the university, communities in china, the united states and throughout the world will have to lead the way. (applause.)