Experts say new technologies help lower the risk, distributed power production could reduce the need for power lines in high-risk areas.

专家表示，新技术有助于降低风险，分布式电力生产可以减少高风险地区输电线的需求。

This need, however, bumps against an emerging narrative that, faced with climate change, we all need to transition from large, centralized power systems to small-scale distributed power.

但是，这个需求却和一个渐渐浮现的观点产生了矛盾，这个观点声称，面对当今的气候变化，我们都需要实现 从大型、集中式能源系统到小型、分散式能源的转型。

Indeed, gender influences how we organize all of society, and how we distribute power.

事实上，性别会影响我们如何组织整个社会，以及我们如何分配权力。

Politics is the major social institution by which society organizes decision-making and distributes power and resources.

政治是社会组织决策、分配权力和资源的主要社会制度。

This kind of distributed power systemscombined with the energy from household solar panels, can massively enhance energy security of countries all over the world.

这种分布式电力系统与家用太阳能电池板的能源相结合，可以极大地增强世界各国的能源安全。

And gender conflict theory, intersectional theory, and the theories of feminism focus on the ways that gender distributes power within society.

性别冲突理论、交叉理论和女权主义理论关注的是性别在社会中分配权力的方式。

The system is designed to be flexible too, with the ability to collect and distribute power  around the combined grid, depending on demand.

该系统的设计也很灵活，能够根据需求在联合电网周围收集和分配电力。

In this line of thinking, demonstrations are seen as irrational outbursts, pointless gestures in a political system that already distributes political power fairly.

按照这种思路，示威活动被视为非理性的爆发，在已经公平分配政治权力的政治体系中毫无意义的姿态。

But in case you’ve forgotten, gender conflict theory argues that gender is a structural system that distributes power and privilege to some and disadvantage to others.

但如果你忘记了，性别冲突理论认为性别是一种结构系统，将权力和特权分配给某些人，而对其他人不利。

Though race is more commonly used by society as a way to organize people and distribute power, both race and ethnicity play a role in how people are perceived and, therefore, the opportunities that are available to them.

尽管种族更常被社会用作组织人民和分配权力的一种方式，但种族和族裔在人们的看法以及他们获得的机会方面都发挥着作用。