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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us
Stewart Brand gesels oor plakkerskampstede
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Wêreldwyd verlaat mense hulle plattelandse blyplekke by die biljoene en stroom na stede om in wemelende plakkerskampe en krotbuurte te gaan bly. Stewart Brand sê dis 'n goeie ding. Hoekom? Vind uit in drie minute.
Stewart Brand - Environmentalist, futurist
Since the counterculture '60s, Stewart Brand has been creating our internet-worked world. Now, with biotech accelerating four times faster than digital technology, Stewart Brand has a bold new plan ... Full bio
Since the counterculture '60s, Stewart Brand has been creating our internet-worked world. Now, with biotech accelerating four times faster than digital technology, Stewart Brand has a bold new plan ... Full bio
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Basically, there's a major demographic event going on.
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’n Belangrike demografiese gebeurtenis is onderweg.
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And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point
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En dit mag wees dat die oorsteek van die 50 persent verstedelikingspunt
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is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
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’n ekonomiese keerpunt is. Die wêreld is nou ’n kaart van verbinding.
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It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.
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In die verlede was Parys, London en New York die grootste stede.
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What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.
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Ons beleef nou die einde van die Weste se opkoms. Dis verby.
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The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.
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Die totale aantal is oorweldigend.
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So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
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So wat gebeur nou eintlik? Die wêreld se dorpies is besig om leeg te loop.
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The question is, why?
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Die vraag is, waarom?
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And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,
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Hier is die onromantiese waarheid -- die stadslug maak jou vry,
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they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places
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het hulle in Renaissance Duitsland gesê. Mense gaan dus na plekke soos
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like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.
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Shanghai, maar meeste gaan na plakkerstede waar estetika seëvier.
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And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
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Hierdie is nie werklik mense wat onderdruk is deur armoede nie.
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They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
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Dis mense wat armoede ontvlug so vinnig as wat hulle kan.
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They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.
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Hulle is hoofsaaklik die bouers en tot ’n groot mate die ontwerpers.
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They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
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Hulle het tuisgemaakte infrastruktuur en lewendige stadslewens.
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One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.
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Een sesde van Indië se GNP kom uit Moembaai.
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They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.
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Daar word konstant opgradeer en in ’n paar gevalle help die regering.
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Education is the main event that can happen in cities.
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Opvoeding is die hoof ding wat in stede kan geskied.
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What's going on in the street in Mumbai?
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Wat gebeur op die strate van Moembaai?
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Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.
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Al Gore weet. Dis basies alles.
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.
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Daar's geen werkloosheid in plakkerstede nie. Almal werk.
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One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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Een sesde van die mensdom is daar. Binnekort meer.
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So here's the first punch line:
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Hier is die eerste gevolgtrekking.
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cities have defused the population bomb.
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Stede het die bevolkingsaanwas bom ontlont.
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And here's the second punch line.
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En die tweede gevolgtrekking.
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That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.
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Dis die nuus uit die onderdorp. Hier is dit in perspektief.
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Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.
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Sterre skyn al vir biljoene jare op die aarde neer.
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Now we're shining right back up.
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Nou skyn ons terug!
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Thank you.
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Dankie.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Stewart Brand - Environmentalist, futuristSince the counterculture '60s, Stewart Brand has been creating our internet-worked world. Now, with biotech accelerating four times faster than digital technology, Stewart Brand has a bold new plan ...
Why you should listen
With biotech accelerating four times faster than digital technology, the revival of extinct species is becoming possible. Stewart Brand plans to not only bring species back but restore them to the wild.
Brand is already a legend in the tech industry for things he’s created: the Whole Earth Catalog, The WELL, the Global Business Network, the Long Now Foundation, and the notion that “information wants to be free.” Now Brand, a lifelong environmentalist, wants to re-create -- or “de-extinct” -- a few animals that’ve disappeared from the planet.
Granted, resurrecting the woolly mammoth using ancient DNA may sound like mad science. But Brand’s Revive and Restore project has an entirely rational goal: to learn what causes extinctions so we can protect currently endangered species, preserve genetic and biological diversity, repair depleted ecosystems, and essentially “undo harm that humans have caused in the past.”
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