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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us
Stewart Brand o slamech
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Venkovské vesnice jsou opouštěny, miliardy lidí se stěhují do měst, aby žili v pskvaterských táborech a řelidněných slamech. Stewart Brand si myslí, že to je dobrá věc. Proč? Za 3 minuty to zjistíte.
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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Právě dochází k zásadní demografické změně.
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And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point
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A může se stát, že překročení 50% míry urbanizace
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is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
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je ekonomický bod zvratu. Svět je dnes propojenou mapou.
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It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.
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Bývalo, že Paříž a Londýn a New York byly největší města na světě.
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What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.
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Nastal konec vzestupu Západu. Skončil.
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The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.
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Souhrné počty jsou ohromující.
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So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
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Co se doopravdy děje? Vesnice všude na světě se vyprázdňují.
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The question is, why?
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Otázkou je proč?
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And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,
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Tady je ne-romatická pravda - městský vzduch osvobozuje
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they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places
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říkali v renesančním Německu. Někteří lidé odcházejí do míst jako
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like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.
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Shangaj, ale většina odchází do příměstských slamů, kde vládne estetika.
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And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
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Tihle lidé nejsou lidé trpící chudobou.
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They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
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Jsou to lidé snažící se dostat z chudoby, jak nejrychleji to jde.
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They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.
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Ti jsou hlavními staviteli a do velké míry i hlavními dizajnéry.
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They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
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Mají doma vyrobenou infrastrukturu a městský život plný energie.
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One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.
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Jedna šestina indického HDP pochází z Bombaje.
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They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.
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Neustále si vylepšují (své domovy) jenom někde s pomocí vlády.
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Education is the main event that can happen in cities.
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Vzdělání patří k hlavním událostem, které mohou ve městech nastat.
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What's going on in the street in Mumbai?
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Co se děje v ulicích Bombaje?
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Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.
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Al Gore to zná. Je to vzásadě všechno.
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.
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V příměstských slamech neexistuje nezaměstnanost. Každý pracuje.
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One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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Nachází se tam jedna šestina lidstva. Bude jich ale mnohem víc.
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So here's the first punch line:
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Tady je první pointa.
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cities have defused the population bomb.
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Města zneškodnila populační explozi.
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And here's the second punch line.
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Tady je druhá pointa.
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That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.
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To jsou zprávy z centra. Tady je výhled do budoucna.
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Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.
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Hvězdy zářily na Zemi po miliardy let.
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Now we're shining right back up.
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Teď pro změnu my osvětlujeme vesmír.
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Thank you.
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Děkuji.
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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