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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us
Steward Brand fala sobre bairros de lata.
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Em todo o mundo, as aldeias estão a ficar desertas à medida que milhões de pessoas rumam em direcção às cidades para viver em bairros de lata e favelas. Stewart Brand diz que isto é bom. Porquê? Descubra em três minutos.
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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Basicamente, está a dar-se uma grande mudança demográfica.
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And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point
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E pode ser que ao ultrapassarmos os 50 por cento de população urbana
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is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
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haja um momento de viragem económico. O mundo hoje em dia é um mapa todo interligado.
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It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.
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Antes, as maiores cidades eram Paris, Londres e Nova Iorque.
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What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.
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O que temos agora é o fim do crescimento do Ocidente. Isso acabou.
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The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.
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Os números globais são impressionantes.
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So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
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Então o que é que está realmente a acontecer? Bom, as aldeias em todo o mundo estão a esvaziar-se.
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The question is, why?
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A pergunta é: porquê?
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And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,
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E a verdade prosaica é -- "o ar da cidade liberta",
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they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places
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como diziam na Alemanha do Renascimento. Por isso, as pessoas vão para lugares
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like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.
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como Xangai, mas a maioria vai para bairros de lata.
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And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
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E estas não são realmente pessoas oprimidas pela pobreza.
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They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
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São pessoas a sair da pobreza o mais depressa que podem.
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They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.
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São os principais construtores, e em grande parte, os principais designers.
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They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
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Têm infraestruturas caseiras e uma vida urbana vibrante.
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One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.
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Um sexto do PBI da Índia vem de Mumbai.
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They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.
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Estão em constante melhoria, e em alguns casos, o governo ajuda.
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Education is the main event that can happen in cities.
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A educação é a maior mudança que pode acontecer nas cidades.
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What's going on in the street in Mumbai?
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O que é que se passa na rua em Mumbai?
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Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.
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Al Gore sabe. Praticamente tudo.
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.
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Não há desemprego nos bairros de lata. Todos trabalham.
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One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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Um sexto da humanidade está aí. Em breve será muito mais que isso.
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So here's the first punch line:
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A primeira conclusão é esta:
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cities have defused the population bomb.
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As cidades desarmaram a bomba populacional.
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And here's the second punch line.
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E a segunda conclusão:
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That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.
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Estas são as novidades do centro da cidade. E aqui um panorama geral.
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Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.
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As estrelas têm brilhado para a Terra durante milhões de anos.
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Now we're shining right back up.
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Agora nós também estamos a brilhar para elas.
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Thank you.
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Obrigado.
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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