dither 復習

The Japan Timesから、環境問題への取り組み方について書かれている記事から取り上げます。

Renewables key in race against warming

PARIS – Any plausible game plan for capping the rise of Earth’s surface temperature depends on replacing fossil fuels with energy sources that generate little or no carbon pollution.
That means renewables, especially solar and wind, both of which face fewer constraints to growth than more established clean energy: A river can be dammed only so many times, and nuclear remains expensive and controversial.
However, humanity has dithered for so long in the fight against global warming, experts say, that the window of opportunity for decarbonizing the global economy fast enough to avoid devastating climate change is barely ajar.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2015/11/21/environment/renewables-key-race-warming/#.VlIKPTihdMt

今回取り上げる表現は “dither”です。G4では「〔…に〕ちゅうちょする、うろたえる」とありました。LDOCEでは “to keep being unable to make a final decision about something”と書かれていました。

今月の30日からパリで地球温暖化対策の国連の会議が開かれることになっていますが、テロのこともあり、無事に開催されるか心配です。（Inaho）