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a radical change of focus surely
the most transcendent that they are going to talk about today
in the sense that it will affect each
one of your lives in each of your
moments and also the important news
is that it is not an option to climate change
I had all heard about the change
climatic the big issue in the agenda
global agreement
the news about climate change is
that does not come alone
first news is accompanied by
changes in the availability of resources
as water energy food maybe all
type of goods
the second news is that we are not going to
be able to do anything to stop it
we are late to even voices
authorized as that of lovelock one of
the founders of greenpeace that foresees
by the end of the century, scenarios of the type
only 500 million human beings
surviving in the cheeks of
planet the polar caps
but we’re not going to let this happen is
truth I believe that it can not disappear
all the imagination and intelligence the
power that has led to the human being
has brought us to where we are and from
soon we are going to take on a slope
down to the tragedy
sure that we will be able to do
something better sure we’re going to be
able to travel beyond a
worthy form and this is the talk of
today
so far the fight against change
climatic was based on a parameter with
the one that be familiar the
sustainability
let’s make our way of life
be sustainable
well sorry we are late
40 years ago we have been talking about
sustainability and we have not been able
to react in time
now what we have left is another concept
the resilience
this may already have heard some
less of you
the resilience simply be able
to resist an impact and follow
working after one way or another
because this is what we are going to have to
think about the strategies to travel
for this crisis that we are already beginning
to live this climate crisis and
energy and reach a world where
we can live in a way worthy of a
happy way because they do not come let’s go now
focus on the scenario that we are going to
have to manage the city
the human being comes living in cities
nowadays already mostly the
human species live city and for
at the end of the century we are probably
in environments of 70 to 80% of the species
human being living in large cities
cities
surely the excessive growth
of the city that is an important part
of the origin of this problem that we are
living
therefore if the cities are not
also the solution if the
modifications of the parameters of the
cities do not become the solution
to that resilience we can see ourselves in a
collapse of civilization as the
we know
the climate in the city
so climate change and city
we are all already feeling in a way
very direct very recognizable in what
terms is giving this change in the
Middle latitudes where a large part lives
of the human population the majority as
in Seville for example here you go to two
tourists suffering from the climate that already
you know, you are checking
temperatures with a frequency never
registered extensions of the period
calyx never registered
this is the scenario we are going to
have to face each time with more
intensity think that the human species
we are going to live
temperatures that our species and ever
has lived of exists on the planet
the stage is of this caliber
also in the city he has recorded for a
phenomenon that is already well known that the
called heat island that you have
represented in this graphic agreement
the heat wave very briefly is the
ability of the city to accumulate and
produce heat and average machinery from
solar radiation transport and problems
to dispel what by its very nature
and by the regime of winds interrupted
as a consequence the temperatures in
city centers can
get to be much higher than in the
periphery 8 10 12 degrees depending on the cases
the time of year the moment and the
morphology of the city
what do you mean by the news
they say that in seville a summer day
forty four degrees ago which
more and more frequent is the temperature
average at the airport outside the
city
as a result in the center of the city
you can be living temperatures
easily 56 degrees in the shade
imagine what we are facing
because a city that is not habitable
that is not comfortable
we can not say that it is sustainable not
we can say that it is recent so
We also talk about also
problems with energy imagine that
that scenario is taking place in a
city where we can not pay the
energy to heat buildings or to
transport us in vehicles in what
situation leave us then we have to
imagine another city
we need now without an authentic
change of focus in this image whose
author I think that is presented a
magnificent artist sevillano chiqui lópez
best friend is very well synthesized
we have to think of a city that
appetizing in a city say this is not
goes from tragedy and fleeing towards
apocalyptic scenarios is not going to be
able to really imagine a city
much better and that also works very
well in that new climate in that new
vital scenario a city that will have a
change of focus in its urban landscape
in your building in your way to
relate to your economy in your
production in its self-sufficiency with
concrete strategies that we have to
to plan
we need a city absolutely
reforested as you see
we need to live almost an urban forest
and that’s appetizing and that’s nice
that is a city that we want
we need buildings that are
comfortable by itself very
comfortable without the need for energy and
that contribute so much self-sufficiency and
that we also need that energy
occur in the city we need to be
owner of the energy and we have a lot
available precisely was going to have
we are going to have more solar radiation
very good ‘are more energy are more
wealth
we need a different type of life in
the one that all our network functions
develop within a reasonable radius in
that we can go cycling
without the need for large displacements
is not that appetizing is not a kind of
life that we want, yes, but that
it involves reorganizing the city not
forget about zoning is that
therefore implies means of transport
distinct that are not contaminants that
do not demand energy we need
supposedly a different governance
we need one to think in terms of
different social organization we need
in short it is a challenge of great depth
definitive is to rethink the city such and
as we know nowadays
politicians it is clear that in the past
40 years need for in room 200
have not lived up to the
circumstances have not been able to
do it so we have to do it
we have to organize ourselves
socially
I would dare to say that resilience
of a society will come measured by its
capacity for social organization in
Seville have had a magnificent example of
control of the urban microclimate
for example expo 92 where
they got through strategies
bioclimatic reduce the temperature in
up to 68 punctually 10th time in this
graphic like what is a thermography
aerial as the center of Seville is
almost on average 8 degrees above the
expo 92 in the middle is the guadalquivir
according to that we have that technique
available in 25 years has not been applied
in the city so we are the
citizens we have to
organize ourselves in a different way
we have to think in terms of network
Social
we have to think in terms of
horizontal organization
there are many movements that should
be working and they are in fact
running the network of cities in
transition for example that already explained in
a mythical tedh talk in 2011 its
founder rock kings have generated
magnificent products all over the planet
but it’s still a small percentage all
you have to be involved
Here in Seville we have founded a group
of citizens the network of Seville by
climate with the same objective actions
concrete recognizable actions that
produce measurable results and
immediate
in that sense we have not implied by the
education in schools because the
new generations are fundamental
we have given prizes very people
meaningful
We have participated in projects of
urbanization of the hand of the neighbors
we have promoted the rooftop contests
green to make citizens
be aware of the possibility of
of the buildings where they live
we have criticized solutions
unfortunate as you see
because it’s amazing that this ride
fluvial just opened belong to
a city with a climate like Seville
opposed however another kind of
solutions for projects that are being
because ultimately making
we need a new society
we need another image of city and the
we need now we can not stay
with the city that we have between
hands
we have to think that the challenge that
we have what we have to solve between
we the challenge is huge but you must
of surely having a better future and
that future is a future that we can
choose us
thank you very much
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