and the east of african nation of somalia are considered at risk of starvation due to the devastating shortages of food policy clear examine the calls of the crisis and the latest episode of africa now yeah. on the outskirts of the capital city of somalia, mogadishu ad and internally displaced can do under 2 tens of thousands of people here. many who found them all different kinds of the country. now all the people started counting here years ago, really because of drought because of famine. because if conflict in the areas, the situation has deteriorated a lot since the recent green crisis began a year ago falling the russia ukraine conflict. the country is relying and has been relying on the we can grain that it gets from russia, ukraine, and those supplies for the better part of the year have completely dried up. so you're looking at an, a family that is going to kill millions of people here. grain situation in its

impact on the african continent is the direct consequence of the war in ukraine, which is an imperialist war. we should say war against russian people and trash and state by our traditional enemies western imperialism. and now we are suffering in terms of our economies because i economies, i interlinked. what happens in russia as consequences for what have been everywhere in the world. and we know that our relationship with russia in terms of this commodity of grains and so on, it's, it seems it's critical to the sustaining of the african continent. so the war his, his diary keep responsible for the cases we should, the world is experiencing, not just in the african continent, even europe be suffering. as a consequence of this war. russia is really doing positive things and a very difficult war situations. the russian economies under serious attack and the

russian economy needs all the resources entirely for its own sustenance. but even now, we see that they're extending the hand of solidarity to the african continent. and that is how address she has always related to the african continent. well larosa, this is allergic out loud to you don't call for more interesting stories we back out with . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be in arms. race is on often very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk

with the most evasion of the 900 pounds is fundamentally racist. now, racism leads to genocide, very straightforward. they believe that they also period if you think that you also period and that's why you are rich, why is everybody else poor? you shut out of your mind, the idea that they are poor because you are making, by real being number, getting to the value of course, decimal rest of it. and you think no, it must be because they are inferior people. what do you do with inferior people? get rid of the

ah, there is a new global push to downsize, your personal property. and activists are using a social justice in climate change issues to justify whether it is having a large home with a yard shows you are racist. or because it shows that you do not care about the environment. well, the world's population be ashamed and having less. meanwhile, there's a new project in the desert of saudi arabia, hoping to create a self sustaining living and workspace for up to 9000000 residents in just 34 kilometers. i'm going to use on today's edition of a 360 view. we're going to examine the pros and cons of urban development and the push for reduced living quarters to be coming soon to the open countryside in the name of climate change. let's get started.

ah. does the housing squeeze literally and figuratively? mean we are running out of land here on earth. location and costs are making many, she's a smaller spaces. and the recent trend of minimalism helped as well. well, there's this project and saudi arabia, which at 1st glance looks like a movie script. but it's says it hopes to create a solution or national correspond rosanna. salon is breaking the project down, roxanna scotty as a population booms. more and more people are leaving farms and coming into the city . we're seeing housing crisis all over the world in the mosque. new mandate, same everyone has to be back in the office is causing a stir in ireland for example. there are many unpopular decision he has made since they came over to pick giant. but this time people are of rates on twitter same.

there is literally not enough housing in dublin for each employee to move into the cd and where and work from the headquarters as the work from home culture rose during the pandemic war, and more people moved out of cds into cheaper housing in suburbs. plus, now the companies are foregoing, their leases, and moving more permanently into work from home business plan. whereas, seen a trend of offices spacing, see this like new york and the see being renovated into apartments and condos. people are being priced out of their homes and ended up on the street. as the cost of living is skyrocketing, homelessness is a big crisis, enlarge cds across the country, leading to entire $10.00 villages, taking over the most popular tourist destination. some cities have filled their square footage of land with homes and business, so no new homes can be built. the price is not reflecting the price of the land now the home to cope. tiny homes in japan are taking off and becoming

a sign of status as meaning. my listen is becoming a trend. even making this tiny homes and ideal location this the nation for people around the globe. i can switzerland is even selling tiny homes for a grand total of $75000.00 or $72000.00 euros. same downsizing and leaving in smaller spaces are firmly established strengths in switzerland. in some countries in south america, building codes are completely thrown out the window as homes are built on top of each other, to try and accommodate for a growing population. when an earthquake or a fire hits this disastrous gum b detrimental to the community. some areas like china waters are moderate from trash and pollution just thrown into the water as riverside towns increase their inhabitants without the proper infrastructure. the solution in saudi arabia that

the stop in e refute there for us could be in the line. imagine a traditional city and consolidating its footprint, designing to protect and enhance nature, the futuristic cd touts itself as a sustainable solution with no roads, no cars or emissions, and they will run on 100 percent renewable energy by leveraging ai technology services are autonomous saving you time and effort, however, at only 200 meters wide and 500 meters store people will lead a lead believing on top of each other as they plan to cram 9000000 people in just 34 square kilometers. the lines, communities are organized in 3 dimensions. residents have access to all their daily needs within 5 minute walk neighborhoods. the line is designed as a series of unique communities, offering a wealth of amenities, providing equitable views and immediate access to the surrounding nature. with 40

percent of the world accessible within 6 hours at the heart of the globe's key trade routes, a place for commerce and communities to thrive like nothing on earth seen before. this project was created with the stamp of approval from the saudi prince. the line is also supposed to act as a tourist destination as well. so scottie would you move to place like these or you would visit? i'm a little claustrophobic, so i like to have lots of space which, you know, it's interesting about this idea. i get it utopia, i get, they want to put everything together, but it just seems truly like something that is just almost a p r step right now, and i think the fact is taking so long to build. there's some questions, can we have they just name that they're architects to this, they're still pursuing this and saudi arabia on it for around the world. she's very ambitious and it's building, in fact, they just announce this thing called the mu cobb, which is a q was shape. they're gonna do the same thing. they went to in the line, but they're also going to do an acute shape right there to be built in inside or it

was so they've got some really great dreams. i have yet to see them come to fluid. she says, with figures and geometry and the line, the queue, but the next on that side of what the parallelogram or any of those others. but it would make sense if the, if you would works, show me, show me one chance before you start building other objects. that you did where it actually works because you're actually, it's not only about building it, it's enticing people to move to these places. especially also if you take into account the weather, right. tony reyes a very hot place so hard. they going to run these in 100 percent. see right, missions, right, renewable energy wouldn't without trying to make people cooler and you're in the middle of a desert. so it can be so many issues. i mean, we see this idea like russia in small, in this idea of where people are like wanting to get out there, wanting to expand them where to go to countries. then in asia and china, you're seeing the cities that have everybody built on top of each other. we saw how that worked with pandemic. i just don't know if there's really a need for this,

right? do you live in a big house or a small house? i mean, depends on, i mean, it isn't, it's a nice house, but one or one acre lot, which isn't very much. i think a luxury to a lot of people. i don't like mowing grass. so this might appeal to me, but i just don't want to be on top of each other and with my neighbors fairing on that side of it. well, thank your x and a for absolutely reporting on this. so joining me now to discuss is v j. shaggy nathan, an economist at the world resources institute. thank you so much for joining us. thank you for having that. so what is sustainable urban development, you know, is it this idea of electricity paved roads, public transport and sanitation? or they're actually more to the concept. there's a lot more to the concept that deals with 3 very important outcomes. they all concerned about. one is they cannot make everyone wants good job and wants to decent living in a city with them. and it is, there's also the social aspect that there has to be harmony and society and not too

many conflicts and discrimination and things like that. and then why meant that is a physical environment which gets badly affected when cities are not land managed properly. so sustainable development in cities has to touch and all 3. why and it cannot be with one, you know, winning or without the 2 or 2 or 3. and that's where the challenge lives. absolutely, so the world bank is actually said that by 2050 urban populations around the world will have more than doubled with 7 to 10 people actually deciding to live in cities . so how can sustainable urban development policy to address this massive influx potential over crowding and people? yes, i think that's the big challenge we have because a city of 10000000 requires infrastructure off of a large magnitude. so whether it's london or in south have they have to build things so that that is the infrastructure available for the millions we're moving

to the cities. now what's happening in the right now, in fact, the world is 50 percent of them and there's going to become 70 percent in the next step decades. what's happening is the kinds of people moving into cities are in the very poor countries. they don't have to sources and these people are moving in without much of prospects of getting a decent job or living the kind, a lifestyle they may see on television, especially when they see some of the programs from us than europe. and so it's a big challenge. absolutely. so then what are the similarities and the differences and sustainable urban development needs for cities like beijing room by india, london, u. k, and metal and columbia? well, one thing which i think we all recognizing now is that when people move to cities, they a lot more energy is used because indeed, energy for electricity, for cooking, for, transportations. you know, there's also

a lot of embodied energy in the buildings through cement and things like that. so all the big cities share, one thing in common, which is that they have a very big carbon footprint. which of course is very harmful to the global environment in the long term. so that's a common element. but what is the difference between them? is that if you go back to the 3 things i said, the environment, the economy, and the society part, they all nodded in a different far. so it's a good consider this as a sort of as a in 3 axis to find that city is all over the place. some are closer to having a balance between the economy, environment and society. others are very mot skewed on one side of that they might be creating a lot of jobs, but with a lot of tension. lot of people moving in and the other important difference between cities and water as part of the global knowledge. and the global sounds is

that love those out as one of the earliest because the saying a lot of people are coming into cities from rural areas in the search, well, better employment, better education for their children. and so they are coming in with a huge amount of energy and use them and are willing to put up at some very bad housing and extremely falling conditions of living so that they can improve their lot. while in the more advanced countries what's happening is that the aging process and the fact that they me as are also now structurally changing with more of the form that's from the evolution coming in. many more people who had decent jobs or to reconsider middle income, a decent jobs with, after having just a high school finding themselves being pushed out and don't have much of a prospect of getting anything unless they still themselves so that i really do

strength job quite different from each other and you see this and whether it's based buy or london or whatever. they had a different boxes. this what i would call the 3 legged stool one some in some cities, once the lego one, the one lego, the stool bigger than the other. but basically all of them have major issues of stability and sustainability. well they all someone had to be somewhat equal and bounced out even very small or large, you're going to fall off that stool. you know, the growth of these urban centers. what are some of the issues faced by residents? you know, i think the lack of affordable housing as you mentioned before, long days getting to and from work power cuts also replacing the building in the infrastructure that was already there has been decades old upgrading to handle these new demands that technology is putting on it exactly, that whole host of things, but if you look at the basic point, which is that people come to cities with the idea of improving the economic

conditions, the in the, in the country. the lot of young people are coming into city, looking for jobs and looking for livelihoods better than what they will ending in the farm. now in the more one city that's not like that, people have the parents have been there in many cases the bed and have a better quality of life than the children. and so you find that social housing, for example, was wide good in many parts. so you're in the 19 seventy's and eighty's. now it does create a problem with the fact that the infrastructure gets old and one wants to be attacks. that could be a huge amount of tax. if you want to the for vision for structure or make the city really compatible, but what is it by the 21st century, the digital age? nothing is ever free and obviously raising taxes never makes anybody happy. but

sometimes it's a must have. thank you, a v j. now, then economists at the world resources institute for your insight. hold on. i want to continue this can get this conversation. because after the break, we're going talk about urban development and some of the challenges due to climate change in coven? ah, the news ah, welcome back to the 360 view, i'm getting a huge i want to continue our conversation with v j showing up in an economist at the world resources institute viji. you know,

we were sort of talking about this in the previous segment, but i wanna talk about climate change. and it's, do you feel driving more populations from rural areas to urban centers and 2nd tier cities. i mean, are these populations being driven by better economic choices and urban centers or more the effects of the i, m f and world bank policies on agriculture productions? well, as you know, climate change to dimensions, there's mitigation dimension and adapt ation dimension. now cities are the ones which are actually the leasing a lago sovereign, and that's taking place already in all the big city. but the 150 over 1000000 is a major source of carbon emissions and global one. other point that you made is about climate adaptation. that is, the parts of the world become no longer useful 5 result. so i'll be moving out what has been called push migration, for example,

in many parts to the hell where that there is actually increase in their size. many people have no option but to try their luck, even through a dangerous crossing of the mediterranean to find something in europe. and that's that i would call push migration or just coming from desperation and lack of jobs and relations. but having said that, i think the primary challenge in cities all over one is what you do to reduce the carbon footprint that this is common everywhere. because even if you go to the water city in a developing country, that is a middle class arising, middle class or buying cars will bind to realize putting in air conditioners and so on. so it's not the, i mean, not, not only is that a section of the well, but that is a growing section of the middle class, which is spelled big inside. you can just think of the numbers like china, middle class estimates to be about 400000000 in the as the bar, 150000000 in the media has about 50000000. so you're looking at cities where

a large part of the population has the purchasing power of an average european or us cities as it and, and that's creating enormous problems on the climate mitigation site. i do answer a question on prime adapt ition. these are things which are happening in some parts of the world, but it hasn't become systemic as, as yet. but there are some wanting signal. i don't know if you were following the news last year that 13rd of august, but flooded. and those slides will never seen before, but it basically destroyed the entire agricultural system in many parts of southern box system. now, these are situations where we don't really have any boston record or expedients to go by. and one has to figure out how to solve the problem. climate did up fission is going to be a big issue. fortunately, it hasn't come until now,

but it is going to come on most seed is only a silver lining is the technology also is advancing very quickly. so one of the points which many i'm making is that maybe we discover new is growing drops and food and everything has to keep the rural. it has also white energy. so that that's the question which i don't think we have an answer to right now. but you have climate change is the very big deal and where it makes differences that make them city leaders than even the border cities have a responsibility to do something about that problem. what's interesting is you can talk about climate change for just a few years ago. we just heard the entire global say it was a pandemic. and during that time, during over 19 we saw were workers, especially a western countries, i think that was across the country across the world, started working remotely. and they developed the technology to meet that 16 percent

of companies globally actually are still fully remote. will this, do you think have an effect on the growth and expansion of urban development as there was somewhat of a max mass exodus. and some of these big cities to more regions where they can spread out and stretch their wings. well, that's a good point to raise about the go with ben demick, which affected every city in the world. but remember, the difference is why substantial between the border city than what you see in the more advanced cities of blood in the water city's a largest of people getting that employment through the streets, through giga economy, by going to houses and providing service to. and so on. they were very badly hit during pandemic, and more than them that children the families. because in most of these cases, while the housing may be a falling bed in surroundings on the lookout to make the children have a better future than themselves. and these kids suffered

a lot and actually the grass in terms of learning and in those 23 years because they didn't have access to the more learning like, you know, what was available in the u. s. and you go to and so on. so it had mixed results, but i think it did point out one very important thing that the fact that you could have all kinds of i'm predictable events and that when they come to hit you, it's no longer his c foster no longer predicted the future. and i think that has sunk into many people's heads and that probably is more important than anything else. it's very interesting, i look at because in modern day is what we consider to be the slums which is inadequate housing. if those keep expedient urban centers. and it's basically a lot of the where they had the infrastructure from a whole from before is not being remodeled. it's not being updated as just continuing to disintegrate. is there any possibility you think the rural life will

get renewed? well, and lives in austin better than ideal for you know, in terms of supports and everything we've seen in the past. but the reality of it is that if you would just take the hard economics of it, agriculture has not been as productive and giving as much of jobs and income as many of the industrial services. so whether we like it or not, people are going to move out to villages and also genders playing a role because in many of the rice growing areas, for example, the back breaking jobs were done by the women who had to transplant to rights. and what you find in indonesia, india, many of the girls who had school education don't want to go and stand in the martin, you know, transplanted right. they asked the questions, what kind of boys do it? so, you know, there are some gender stereotypes that changing the router area itself is evolving into something quite different. we still don't know where it's going to go. that

the early issue on the router side. busy that we cannot afford to have a situation where the world doesn't produce enough food to feed itself to go from now. but that i think i'm quite optimistic that science and technology are making huge advances and the farmers were still there are very smart. they do go out to adapt themselves to take the less the best. so to answer your question, i don't think that i'm going to be allowed to move on to an area unless like what you've seen in the u. s. people can move out to smaller town because you get the same service facilities as a big city. so if you lived in new york city and you went out to, in fact outsides that ample, upstate new york, you had the exactly the same physical comforts. and so you could have a better quality of life. it's not the same thing in africa, parts of a ship, because the smaller towns have much less infrastructure, the electricity is bad. the water's bad. and so people doorman schooling is very

bad, most of all. so people don't want to war very far from the center. so there's one of the continued growth in cities. but the real challenges i'll do in show sustainable growth in the cities, in terms of those to the legs of the stool. it's i mention lots of pros and cons to either place. thank you so much for joining us. that was a vision jagger nothin economists with the world resources institute. you know, there is this difference between someone choosing to live a minimal as lifestyle because they think it is what is best for them and their family, or one being bullied or shamed into a limited way of life. it should be a personal preference into the type of residence once decides to invest their financial resources in and one which should be made without fear backlash from any activist. it is ludicrous to shame someone into thinking having a bigger home is a sign of racism or lack of concern for the environment. now, recently there's been a lot of fads which like common sense, but you see a big yard filled with trees and bushes. it's not only selfish but racist, is

a whole new level of ridiculous sounds to me like another opportunity for widening the wealth and power gap by using emotions and controversial subjects all to suppress the skeptics. i would be more inclined to believe the argument if the most powerful and the richest of the world, tore down their grand estates as well as retired their private airliners to the jug charge. however, bravo to those innovators and capitalists who are working together to find a solution, even if it might seem more based on a hollywood script than reality, at least for now. what good is the continued development of technology? if we don't use it for developing options to enhance our lives and our planet, i'm a huge and there's been your 360 view of the news affecting you. thanks for watching the news. march

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