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.”

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TED2006

Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us

Steward Brand sur les villes illégales

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L'exode rural affecte le monde entier, tandis que des millions de personnes d'agglomèrent dans des camps et bidonvilles qui débordent. Steward Brand dit que c'est une bonne chose. Pourquoi ? Cela vous prendra 3 minutes pour le découvrir.
- Environmentalist, futurist
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BasicallyFondamentalement, there's a majorMajeur demographicdémographique eventun événement going on.
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Bon, il se passe quelque chose de majeur démographiquement parlant.
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And it maymai be that passingqui passe the 50 percentpour cent urbanUrbain pointpoint
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Et il se pourrait qu’en dépassant le stade de 50% d’urbanisation
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is an economicéconomique tippingbasculement pointpoint. So the worldmonde now is a mapcarte of connectivityconnectivité.
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on arrive à un point de retournement économique. Le monde est désormais une carte de connectivité.
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It used to be that ParisParis and LondonLondres and NewNouveau YorkYork were the largestplus grand citiesvilles.
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Il fut un temps où Paris, Londres et New-York étaient les 3 plus grandes villes du monde.
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What we have now is the endfin of the riseaugmenter of the WestOuest. That's over.
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Ce que nous observons désormais c’est la fin de la montée en puissance de l’Ouest. C’est fini.
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The aggregateagrégat numbersNombres are overwhelmingaccablant.
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Les chiffres globaux sont édifiants.
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So what's really going on? Well, villagesles villages of the worldmonde are emptyingla vidange out.
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Que se passe-t-il donc ? Et bien, les villages du monde se vident.
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The questionquestion is, why?
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La question est : pourquoi ?
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And here'svoici the unromanticromanesque truthvérité -- and the cityville airair makesfait du you freegratuit,
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Et voici la vérité crue -- et l’air de la ville vous rend libre,
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they said in RenaissanceRenaissance GermanyAllemagne. So some people go to placesdes endroits
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disait-on dans l’Allemagne de la renaissance. Donc les gens vont dans des lieux
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like ShanghaiShanghai but mostles plus go to the squattersquatter citiesvilles where aestheticsesthétique ruleRègle.
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comme Shanghai, mais la plupart vont dans des squats et des bidonvilles où l’esthétique donne le La.
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And these are not really a people oppressedopprimés by povertyla pauvreté.
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Et ce ne sont pas vraiment des gens opprimés par la pauvreté.
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They're people gettingobtenir out of povertyla pauvreté as fastvite as they can.
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Ce sont des gens qui sortent de la pauvreté aussi vite qu’ils le peuvent.
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They're the dominantdominant buildersconstructeurs and to a largegrand extentampleur, the dominantdominant designersconcepteurs.
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Ce sont les constructeurs dominants, et dans une large mesure, les designers dominants.
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They have home-brewedmaison infrastructureInfrastructure and vibrantvibrant urbanUrbain life.
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Ils ont forgé chez eux une infrastructure et une vie urbaines trépidantes.
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One-sixthUn sixième of the GDPPIB in IndiaInde is comingvenir out of MumbaiMumbai.
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Un sixième du PIB en Inde vient de Bombay.
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They are constantlyconstamment upgradingla mise à niveau, and in a fewpeu casescas, the governmentgouvernement helpsaide.
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Ils s’améliorent tout le temps, et dans quelques cas, le gouvernement leur vient en aide.
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EducationÉducation is the mainprincipale eventun événement that can happense produire in citiesvilles.
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L’éducation est le principal changement qu'on peut voir dans les villes.
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What's going on in the streetrue in MumbaiMumbai?
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Que se passe-t-il dans les rues de Bombay ?
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AlAl GoreGore knowssait. It's basicallyen gros everything.
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Al Gore le sait. En résumé, tout.
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There's no unemploymentchômage in squattersquatter citiesvilles. EveryoneTout le monde workstravaux.
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Il n’y a pas de chomâge dans les bidonvilles. Tout le monde travaille.
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One-sixthUn sixième of humanityhumanité is there. It's soonbientôt going to be more than that.
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Un sixième de l’humanité se trouve là. Bientôt ça sera plus que ça.
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So here'svoici the first punchcoup de poing lineligne:
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Donc voilà la première chute de la petite histoire.
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citiesvilles have defuseddésamorcé the populationpopulation bombbombe.
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Les villes ont désamorcé la bombe démographique.
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And here'svoici the secondseconde punchcoup de poing lineligne.
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Et voilà la deuxième chute de la petite histoire.
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That's the newsnouvelles from downtowncentre ville. Here it is in perspectivela perspective.
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Voilà des nouvelles du centre-ville. Voilà le tout remis en perspective.
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StarsÉtoiles have shineda brillé down on earth'sTerre life for billionsdes milliards of yearsannées.
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Les étoiles ont brillé pour nous sur Terre pendant des milliards d’années.
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Now we're shiningbrillant right back up.
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Désormais nous brillons aussi en retour.
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Thank you.
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Merci.
Translated by Thomas VANDENBOGAERDE
Reviewed by Elisabeth Buffard

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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

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