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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us
Stewart Brand despre oraşele înghesuite
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Mediul rural de pe mapamond este părăsit, pe măsură ce miliarde de oameni se îngrămădesc în oraşe pentru a trăi în tabere înghesuite şi mahalale. Stewart Brand zice că asta este un lucru bun. De ce? Vă ia 3 minute să aflaţi.
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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Există un eveniment demografic major ce se desfăşoară acum.
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And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point
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Şi s-ar putea ca depăşirea pragului urban de 50 la sută,
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is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
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să fie un punct de cotitură economică. Lumea astăzi este o reţea de conexiuni.
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It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.
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Înainte Paris şi Londra şi New York-ul erau cele mai mari oraşe.
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What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.
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Ce vedem acum este sfârşitul ascensiunii Vestului. S-a terminat.
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The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.
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Datele adunate sunt covârşitoare.
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So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
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Ce se întâmplă de fapt? Păi, satele lumii se golesc.
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The question is, why?
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Întrebarea este "de ce?"
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And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,
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Şi iată adevărul. "Aerul din oraş te eliberează"
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they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places
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obişnuiau să zică cei din Germania renaşcentistă. Aşa că unii merg
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like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.
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la Shanghai, însă majoritatea merg în oraşe înghesuite, unde estetica domneşte.
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And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
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Iar aceştia nu sunt oameni oprimaţi de sărăcie.
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They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
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Sunt oameni care scapă de sărăcie cât se poate de repede
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They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.
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Sunt principalii constructori, şi în mare măsură, principalii designeri.
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They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
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Au o infrastructură proprie şi o viaţă urbană dinamică
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One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.
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O şesime din PIB-ul Indiei provine din Mumbai.
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They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.
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Se îmbunătăţesc constant, şi în unele cazuri, guvernul ajută.
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Education is the main event that can happen in cities.
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Oraşele sunt principala sursă de educaţie.
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What's going on in the street in Mumbai?
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Ce se întâmplă pe străzile Mumbaiului?
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Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.
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Al Gore ştie. În principiu, de toate.
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.
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Nu există şomaj în aceste oraşe. Toţi lucrează.
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One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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O şesime din omenire e aici. În curând vor fi mai mulţi.
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So here's the first punch line:
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Iată prima concluzie interesantă.
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cities have defused the population bomb.
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Oraşele au încetinit boom-ul de populaţie.
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And here's the second punch line.
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Şi a doua concluzie interesantă.
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That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.
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Acestea-s informaţiile de acolo. Iată şi imaginea de ansamblu.
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Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.
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Stelele au strălucit către Pământ timp de miliarde de ani.
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Now we're shining right back up.
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Acum strălucim şi noi.
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Thank you.
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Vă mulţumesc.
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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