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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 ...

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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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us

Stjuart Brend (Stewart Brand) o kartonskim naseljima

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Sela ostaju pusta širom sveta obzirom da se milijarde ljudi sele u gradove gde žive u prenaseljenim kartonskim naseljima. Stjuart Brend (Stewart Brand) kaže da je ovo dobro. Zašto? Potrebno je 3 minuta da to saznate.
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BasicallyU osnovi, there's a majorглавни demographicдемографски eventдогађај going on.
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U toku je veliki demografski događaj.
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And it mayможе be that passingпролаз the 50 percentпроценат urbanурбано pointтачка
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Kada gradsko stanovništvo prevaziđe 50%, može se desiti
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is an economicекономски tippingпреклапање pointтачка. So the worldсвет now is a mapМапа of connectivityповезивање.
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ekonomski preokret. Svet je sada mapa umreženosti.
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It used to be that ParisPariz and LondonLondon and NewNovi YorkYork were the largestнајвеће citiesградова.
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Nekada su najveći gradovi bili Pariz, London i Njujork.
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What we have now is the endкрај of the riseпораст of the WestZapad. That's over.
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Danas svedočimo kraju uspona Zapada. Gotovo je.
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The aggregateагрегат numbersбројеви are overwhelmingпреовлађујуће.
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Ukupne brojke su zapanjujuće.
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So what's really going on? Well, villagesсела of the worldсвет are emptyingPražnjenje out.
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Šta se zapravo dešava? Sela širom sveta ostaju pusta.
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The questionпитање is, why?
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Pitanje je zašto?
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And here'sево the unromanticromantiиan truthистина -- and the cityград airваздух makesчини you freeбесплатно,
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Evo neromantične istine -- gradski vazduh vas čini slobodnim,
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they said in RenaissanceRenesansa GermanyNemačka. So some people go to placesместа
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rekli su u renesansnoj Nemačkoj. Tako se neki ljudi sele u mesta
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like ShanghaiShanghai but mostнајвише go to the squatterскуаттер citiesградова where aestheticsестетика ruleправило.
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poput Šangaja, i većina odlazi u kartonska naselja gde caruje estetika.
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And these are not really a people oppressedugnjetavan by povertyсиромаштво.
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Ovo nisu ljudi ugnjetani siromaštvom.
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They're people gettingдобијања out of povertyсиромаштво as fastбрзо as they can.
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To su ljudi koji beže iz siromaštva što brže mogu.
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They're the dominantдоминантан buildersградитељи and to a largeвелики extentстепена, the dominantдоминантан designersдизајнери.
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Oni su glavni graditelji, i u velikoj meri, glavni dizajneri.
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They have home-brewedDomaжa proizvodnja infrastructureинфраструктуре and vibrantживахан urbanурбано life.
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Imaju "uradi sam" infrastrukturu i aktivan urbani život.
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One-sixth1 / 6 of the GDPBDP-A in IndiaIndija is comingдолазе out of MumbaiMumbai.
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Šestina BDP-a Indije potiče iz Mumbaja.
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They are constantlyстално upgradingNadogradnja, and in a fewнеколико casesслучајева, the governmentвлада helpsпомаже.
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Oni stalno nadograđuju, a u retkim slučajevima, i država pomogne.
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EducationObrazovanje is the mainглавни eventдогађај that can happenдесити се in citiesградова.
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Obrazovanje je glavni događaj koji se dešava u gradovima.
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What's going on in the streetулица in MumbaiMumbai?
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Šta se dešava na ulicama Mumbaja?
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AlAl GoreGor knowsзна. It's basicallyу основи everything.
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Al Gor zna. U suštini - sve.
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There's no unemploymentstopa nezaposlenosti in squatterскуаттер citiesградова. EveryoneSvi worksИзвођење радова.
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U kartonskim naseljima nezaposlenost ne postoji. Svi rade.
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One-sixth1 / 6 of humanityчовечанство is there. It's soonускоро going to be more than that.
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Šestina čovečanstva živi tamo. Uskoro će biti i više.
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So here'sево the first punchudarac lineлине:
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Evo prvog rezultata:
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citiesградова have defusedдефусед the populationпопулација bombбомба.
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gradovi su smirili populacioni procvat.
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And here'sево the secondдруго punchudarac lineлине.
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A ovo je drugi rezultat.
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That's the newsвести from downtownЦентар града. Here it is in perspectiveперспектива.
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To su vesti iz centra. Evo ga u perspektivi.
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StarsZvezde have shinedIzglancao down on earth'sземља life for billionsмилијарди of yearsгодине.
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Zvezde sijaju nad nama milijardama godina.
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Now we're shiningсјајан right back up.
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Sada i mi isto tako sijamo.
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Thank you.
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Hvala.
Translated by Maja Jovanovic
Reviewed by Jelena Nedjic

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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 ...

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.”

More profile about the speaker
Stewart Brand | Speaker | TED.com