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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us
Stewart Brand over kraaksteden
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Over de hele wereld worden landelijke dorpjes verlaten, omdat miljarden mensen naar de steden stromen om samen te hokken in kraakkampen en sloppenwijken. Stewart Brand zegt dat dit een goede zaak is. Waarom? Op drie minuten tijd kom je erachter.
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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Er is een grote demografische omwenteling bezig.
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And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point
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Bij het overschrijden van de drempel van 50 procent urbanisatie
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is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
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bereiken we misschien een economisch kantelpunt. De wereld is een kaart van verbindingen.
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It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.
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Vroeger waren Parijs, Londen en New York de grootste steden.
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What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.
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We zien nu het einde van de opkomst van het Westen. Dat is voorbij.
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The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.
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De som van de getallen is overweldigend.
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So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
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Dus wat is er nu echt aan de hand? Over de hele wereld stromen de dorpen leeg.
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The question is, why?
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De vraag is: waarom?
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And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,
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Dit is de onromantische werkelijkheid. Ze zeiden dat stadslucht vrij maakt,
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they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places
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in het Duitsland van de Renaissance. Dus gaan sommige mensen
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like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.
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naar plaatsen als Shangai, maar de meesten gaan naar de kraaksteden, waar esthetica de bovenhand heeft.
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And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
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Dit zijn niet echt mensen die onder armoede gebukt gaan.
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They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
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Het zijn mensen die zo snel mogelijk uit de armoede geraken.
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They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.
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Het zijn de dominante bouwers en grotendeels de dominante ontwerpers.
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They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
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Ze hebben een huisgemaakte infrastructuur, en een bruisend stadsleven.
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One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.
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Eén zesde van het bnp van India komt uit Mumbai.
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They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.
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Ze verbeteren zichzelf voortdurend, en soms helpt de regering.
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Education is the main event that can happen in cities.
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Onderwijs is de voornaamste gebeurtenis die in steden kan plaatsvinden.
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What's going on in the street in Mumbai?
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Wat gebeurt er op straat in Mumbai?
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Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.
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Al Gore weet het. Het is zowat alles.
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.
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Er is geen werkloosheid in kraaksteden. Iedereen werkt.
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One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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Eén zesde van de mensheid woont er. Dat zal binnenkort nog meer zijn.
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So here's the first punch line:
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Hier is mijn eerste punch line.
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cities have defused the population bomb.
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Steden hebben de bevolkingsbom ontmijnd.
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And here's the second punch line.
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Hier is mijn tweede punch line.
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That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.
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Dat is het nieuws uit de stad. Hier is het in perspectief.
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Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.
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Sterren laten al miljarden jaren hun licht op het leven op aarde schijnen.
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Now we're shining right back up.
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Nu schijnen wij terug.
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Thank you.
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Dank je wel.
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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