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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us
Steward Brand om slumbyer
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Landsbyer over hele verden blir forlatt, ettersom milliarder av mennesker samles til byene for å leve i yrende slumleire og i slummen. Steward Brand sier dette er bra. Hvorfor? Det tar deg 3 minutter å finne ut.
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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Hovedsaklig, så er det en stor demografisk hendelse som foregår.
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And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point
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Og det kan hende at å passere 50 prosent av befolkningen som bor i byer
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is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
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er et økonomisk vendepunkt. Så verden er nå et kart med tilkoplingsmuligheter.
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It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.
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Det pleide å være slik at Paris og London og New York var de største byene.
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What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.
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Det vi har nå er slutten på fremgangen i Vesten. Det er ferdig.
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The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.
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Totalsummen er overveldende.
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So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
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Så hva er det som egentlig skjer? Vel, landsbyer verden over tømmes.
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The question is, why?
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Spørsmålet er, hvorfor?
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And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,
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Og her er den uromantiske sannheten -- byluft gir deg frihet,
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they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places
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ble det sagt i renessansens Tyskland. Så noen mennesker drar til steder
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like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.
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som Shanghai, men de fleste drar til slumbyer hvor estetikk råder.
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And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
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Og dette er virkelig ikke folk som er undertrykt av fattigdom.
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They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
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De er mennesker som kommer seg ut av fattigdom så fort som mulig.
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They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.
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De er dominerende byggere, og i stor grad, de dominerende designere.
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They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
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De har hjemmelaget infrastruktur og et levende urbanliv.
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One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.
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En sjettedel av BNP i India kommer fra Mumbai.
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They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.
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Det er kontinuerlige forbedringer, og i noen få tilfeller, hjelper myndighetene til.
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Education is the main event that can happen in cities.
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Utdannelse er den største begivenheten som skjer i byer.
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What's going on in the street in Mumbai?
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Hva skjer i gatene i Mumbai?
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Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.
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Al Gore vet. Det er praktisk talt alt.
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.
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Det er ingen arbeidsledighet i slumbyer. Alle jobber.
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One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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En sjettedel av menneskeheten er der. Det vil snart bli mer enn det.
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So here's the first punch line:
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Så her er det første hovedpoenget.
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cities have defused the population bomb.
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Byer har desarmert populasjonsbomben.
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And here's the second punch line.
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Og her er det andre hovedpoenget.
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That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.
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Dette var nyhetene fra studio. Her er det i perspektiv.
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Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.
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Stjerner har lyst ned på jordas liv i milliarder av år.
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Now we're shining right back up.
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Nå lyser vi tilbake.
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Thank you.
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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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