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Stewart Brand: What squatter cities can teach us
Stewart Brand om kåkstäder
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Landsbygdens byar överges över hela världen när miljarder människor flockas till städerna för att leva i slummens och kåkstädernas myller. Stewart Brand menar att det här är något bra. Varför? Det tar dig tre minuter att få veta.
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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En stor demografisk händelse är på gång.
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And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point
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När 50% av oss bor i städerna når vi kanske
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is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
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en ekonomisk vändpunkt. Världen är nu en karta av sammankopplingar.
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It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities.
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Tidigare var Paris, London och New York de största städerna.
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What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over.
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Vad vi ser nu är slutet på västvärldens uppgång. Den är över.
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The aggregate numbers are overwhelming.
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Det sammanlagda antalet är överväldigande.
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So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
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Så vad pågår egentligen? Världens byar töms.
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The question is, why?
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Frågan är, varför?
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And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free,
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Och här är den oromantiska sanningen - "stadsluften gör dig fri",
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they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places
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sa de i renässansens Tyskland. Så vissa tar sig till platser
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like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.
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som Shanghai, men de flesta tar sig till kåkstäderna, där estetiken regerar.
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And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty.
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De är inte människor nedtyngda av fattigdom.
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They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can.
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De är människor som tar sig ur fattigdom, så fort de kan.
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They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers.
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De är de dominerande byggarna, och till stor del de som dominerar designen.
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They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
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De har egen infrastruktur och ett pulserande stadsliv.
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One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai.
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En sjättedel av Indiens BNP kommer från Mumbai.
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They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps.
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De uppgraderar konstant, och i några få fall hjälper myndigheterna till.
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Education is the main event that can happen in cities.
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Utbildning är det viktigaste som kan hända i städerna.
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What's going on in the street in Mumbai?
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Vad händer på Mumbais gator?
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Al Gore knows. It's basically everything.
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Al Gore vet. Det är i stort sett allting.
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There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.
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Det finns ingen arbetslöshet i kåkstäderna. Alla jobbar.
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One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
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En sjättedel av mänskligheten finns där. Snart kommer det vara mer än så.
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So here's the first punch line:
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Så här kommer första poängen.
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cities have defused the population bomb.
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Städerna har desarmerat befolkningsbomben.
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And here's the second punch line.
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Och här är den andra poängen.
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That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective.
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Det är nyheterna nerifrån stan. Här är det i perspektiv.
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Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years.
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Stjärnor har skinit ner på jordens liv under flera miljarder år.
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Now we're shining right back up.
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Nu skiner vi tillbaka upp mot dem.
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Thank you.
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Tack.
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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