Basically, there's a major demographic event going on. And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point is an economic tipping point. So the world now is a map of connectivity.
V bistvu, se odvija velik demografski dogodek. In morda je več kot 50-odstotna stopnja urbanizacije ekonomska ločnica. Svet je sedaj zemljevid povezanosti.
It used to be that Paris and London and New York were the largest cities. What we have now is the end of the rise of the West. That's over. The aggregate numbers are overwhelming. So what's really going on? Well, villages of the world are emptying out.
Včasih so bila Pariz, London in New York največja mesta. Sedaj je konec rasti Zahoda. Tega je konec. Skupne številke so velikanske. Kaj se torej dogaja? No, vasi po svetu se praznijo.
The question is, why? And here's the unromantic truth -- and the city air makes you free, they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule. And these are not really a people oppressed by poverty. They're people getting out of poverty as fast as they can. They're the dominant builders and to a large extent, the dominant designers. They have home-brewed infrastructure and vibrant urban life.
Vprašanje je, zakaj? in tu je neromantična resnica-- in mestni zrak te osvobodi, so rekli v renesančni Nemčiji. Nekateri ljudje gredo v kraje kot je Šanghaj, ampak večina jih gre v skvoterska mesta, kjer vlada estetika. In to niso ljudje, ki jih ogroža revščina. To so ljudje, ki iz revščine bežijo, kolikor hitro se da. So glavni gradbeniki in v veliki meri, glavni oblikovalci. Imajo domačo infrastrukturo in živahno mestno življenje.
One-sixth of the GDP in India is coming out of Mumbai. They are constantly upgrading, and in a few cases, the government helps. Education is the main event that can happen in cities. What's going on in the street in Mumbai? Al Gore knows. It's basically everything. There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
Ena šestina BDP Indije pride iz Mumbaja. Neprestano se nadgrajujejo, in včasih jim pomaga celo vlada. Izobrazba je glavni dogodek, ki se lahko zgodi v mestih. Kaj se dogaja na ulicah Mumbaja? Al Gore ve. Praktično vse. V skvoterskih mestih ni brezposelnosti. Vsi delajo. Ena šestina človeštva živi tam. Kmalu bo ta delež še večji.
So here's the first punch line: cities have defused the population bomb.
Tu je prva poanta: mesta so ublažila populacijsko bombo.
And here's the second punch line. That's the news from downtown. Here it is in perspective. Stars have shined down on earth's life for billions of years. Now we're shining right back up.
In tu je še druga poanta. To so novice iz središča mesta. Tu so še v perspektivi. Zvezde so sijale dol na življenje na Zemlji več milijard let. Sedaj mi sijemo nazaj gor.
Thank you.
Hvala.