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Despite the crushing sadness and anger that comes from witnessing disaster capitalism, it also gives me hope.
尽管目睹灾难资本主义给我带来了令人崩溃的悲伤和愤怒，但它也给了我希望。
Going back to that Milton Friedman quote, when a crisis occurs “the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
回到米尔顿·弗里德曼的名言，当危机发生时，“采取的行动取决于现有的理念。”
Key to this is that the ideas don’t have to be neoliberal capitalism, they can instead be life-affirming, zero-carbon ideas centered around helping people and planet, not on increasing profits.
关键是，这些理念不一定是新自由主义资本主义，它们可以是积极向上的零碳理念，把重心放在帮助人类和地球上，而不是增加利润上。
This is exactly what happened when Hurricane Maria left the barrio of Mariana without electricity, internet access, food stores and roads to the outside world for weeks.
这正是飓风“玛丽亚”离开马里亚纳市政区时发生的事情，那里断电、断网、食品商店停业以及通往外界的道路不通的情况达数周之久。
Unlike crypto millionaires swooping in to snatch up lucrative property, or harnessing the shock of a hurricane to place the electric grid in private hands, the people of Mariana came together and used the strength of their community to not only survive but thrive in the face of disaster.
与加密货币的百万富翁不同，马里亚纳的人民没有突然涌入抢夺有利可图的财产，或利用飓风的冲击将电网交到私人手中，而是团结在一起利用社区的力量，最终他们不仅存活了下来，还在灾难面前蓬勃兴旺。
This looked like quickly establishing a community health center, a central hub for free food distribution, and connecting with other aid groups to bring Wi-Fi and solar panels back to the area.
这看起来就像是迅速建立一个社区医疗中心，一个免费分发食物的中心枢纽，并与其他援助组织联系起来，将无线网和太阳能电池板带回该地区。
One community member, Christine Nieves Rodriguez, writes about this collective resilience.
社区成员克里斯汀·尼维斯·罗德里格斯就这种集体韧性写下了一段话。
She says that “Within five days of Maria we had launched Proyecto de Apoyo Mutuo.
她说：“在飓风‘玛丽亚’来袭后的五天内，我们就推出了相互支持项目。
By ten days we were feeding three hundred people from all completely self-organized and self-funded efforts.
10天的时间里，我们就为300人提供了食物，这些食物都是完全由我们自己组织和出资的。
Donations started coming in, but the most important thing was people on the ground, who worked tirelessly and contributed whatever food, skills, and money they had.
捐款开始陆续到来，但最重要的是在实地的人们，他们不知疲倦地工作，贡献出他们所有的食物、技能和金钱。
They all contributed their whole selves so that the place was full of respect and solidarity.”
他们都奉献了自己的全部，使这个地方充满了尊重和团结。”
Instead of neoliberal policies and profit-hunting, the ideas laying around for this community were ones of collective responsibility and sustainability– of mutual aid.
这个社区的理念不是新自由主义政策和追逐利润，而是集体责任和可持续性，即互助。
Climate change will continue to pound the world with disasters.
气候变化将继续给世界带来灾难。
If we do nothing, disaster capitalism will inevitably seek to shape the world of those on the front lines to its image.
如果我们什么都不做，灾难资本主义将不可避免地试图按照自己的形象塑造前线人员的世界。
But if we struggle for something more.
但如果我们努力争取更多。
If we recognize that neoliberalism, and more broadly capitalism, is hamstringing any efforts to recover and create resilience in the face of climate chaos, we have a chance.
如果我们认识到，新自由主义，乃至更广泛的资本主义，正在阻碍任何在气候混乱面前进行恢复和创造韧性的努力，我们就有机会。
That struggle must include alternatives, like the community of Mariana’s Apoyo Mutuo project.
这场斗争必须包括其他选择，就像马里亚纳推出相互支持项目的社区一样。
We must have policies, ideas, and networks of care in place so that when disaster strikes, we not only have the means to recover, but we also have the means to forge a world where resilience and collective healing is foregrounded.
我们必须有适当的政策、理念和关怀网络，以便在灾难来袭时，我们不仅有办法恢复，而且有办法打造一个极具复原力和集体治愈能力的世界。
And maybe in that world, disaster doesn’t have to mean catastrophe.
也许在那个世界里，灾难并不一定意味着灾难。
