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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us
Стюарт Бранд за незаконните градове
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Из цял свят се изоставят села, докато милиарди хора се тълпят в градовете, за да живеят в гъмжащи незаконни лагери и бедняшки квартали. Според Стюарт Бранд това е добре. Защо? Ще ви трябват 3 минути, за да разберете.
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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По същество, в момента се случва огромно демографско събитие.
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And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point
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И може би преминаването на 50-процентовата граница при урбанизацията
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is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
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е икономическа точка на пречупване. И така, сега светът е карта, изградена от връзки.
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It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.
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Някога Париж, Лондон и Ню Йорк бяха най-големите градове.
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What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.
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А сега настъпи край на възхода на Запада. Това приключи.
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The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.
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Сумарните числа са съкрушителни.
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So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
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И така, какво става всъщност? Ами, селата по света се обезлюдяват.
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The question is, why?
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Въпросът е - защо?
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And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,
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Ето я и неромантичната истина - градският въздух те прави свободен,
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they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places
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както казвали в ренесансова Германия. Затова някои хора отиват на места
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like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.
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като Шанхай, но повечето отиват в незаконни градове, управлявани от естетиката.
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And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
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А те всъщност не са хора, потиснати от бедност.
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They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
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Това са хора, бягащи от бедността колкото могат по-бързо.
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They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.
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Те са основните строители, и до голяма степен - основните дизайнери.
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They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
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Те имат домашно приготвена инфраструктура и динамичен градски живот.
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One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.
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Една шеста от брутния национален продукт на Индия идва от Мумбай.
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They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.
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Те постоянно се развиват, а в някои случаи и правителството помага.
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Education is the main event that can happen in cities.
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Основно събитие в градовете е образованието.
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What's going on in the street in Mumbai?
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Какво става на улицата в Мумбай?
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Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.
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Ал Гор знае. Всъщност всичко се случва.
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.
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В незаконните градове няма безработица. Всички работят.
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One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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Там е една шеста от човечеството. Скоро ще станат повече.
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So here's the first punch line:
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Ето първото важно нещо.
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cities have defused the population bomb.
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Градовете са се преборили със свръхнаселеността.
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And here's the second punch line.
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Ето и второто.
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That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.
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Това са новините от центъра. Ето как е в перспектива.
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Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.
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Звездите осветяват живота на Земята милиарди години.
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Now we're shining right back up.
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А сега и ние им отговаряме със собствен блясък нагоре.
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Thank you.
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Благодаря ви.
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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