is this, we need to political situation not to minutes where you on that a security solution. and finally this hour, we end in pakistan. we're an anchor. it remains calm amid the chaos, but it shows the prisoner local news channel, calmly delivering his report as an earthquake, rocks the set on air. the massive $6.00 tremor shook the country, but the worst effects were felt at the epicenter and neighboring afghanistan. the earthquake registered as far away as india will keep you updated as more information comes in from from will 30 hosting. okay. does that is the jackie and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t v dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. was he right back here at the top of the hour? ah,

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 successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk with ah, there is a new global push to downsize, your personal property and active. you're using a social justice in climate change issues to justify whether it is having a large home with

a yard shows you are races or because it shows that you do not care about the environment. well, the world's population be shamed into having less. meanwhile, there's a new project in the desert of saudi arabia, hoping to create a self sustaining living and work space up to 9000000 residents in just 34 kilometers. i'm going to use on today's edition of the 360 view. we're going to examine the pros and cons of urban development, and if the push for reduced living quarters to be coming soon to the open country side and the name of climate change, let's get started. ah, this is a housing squeeze both 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 a natural correspond. retinas. salon is breaking the project down roxana scotty as a population booms and more and more people are leaving farms. been coming into the city. we're seeing housing crisis all over the world in 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 take giant. but this time, people are of great 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 i work from home, culture rose were independent, make more and more people moved out of cd thing to 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 cbs like new york and d. c being renovated into apartments and condos. people are being priced out of their homes and ending 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, not 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 these tiny homes and ideal vocation destination 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 fire hits these the saucers 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 he will run on 100 percent renewable energy by leveraging

ai technology services, our autonomous saving you time and effort. however, at only 200 meters wide and 500 meters store by people will lead a lead believing on top of each other as they plan to cram $9000000.00 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 this 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 stuff right now, and i think the fact is taking so long to build, there's some questions, can we have they just named their 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 move cob, 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 fruition or says, with figures and geometry, the line, the queue, but the next on that side of what the parallelogram or any of the others. but it would make sense if the, if you would works, show me it, 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? saudi arabia's a very hot place so hard. they going to run these in 100 percent. see right. mission. right? no one what 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 than 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? depends on, i mean, it isn't, it's a nice house, but one on one acre lot, which is 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 ex in a for absolutely reporting on that. 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 me. so what is sustainable urban development? you know, is it this idea of electricity paved roads, public transport and sanitation? or is there 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 in 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 on all 3. why and it cannot be with one, you know, winning all about the 2 are doing all about the 3. and that's where the challenge

lives. absolutely, so the world bank has 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 policies 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 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, right now, the world is 50 percent of them and is going to become 70 percent in the next step upload decades. what's happening is the kinds of people moving into cities are in the very poor countries. they don't have the resources at these people are moving in without much of prospects. so getting a decent job or living the kind

a lifestyle they may see on television especially. and if you some of the programs from us and europe and so, so it's a big challenge. absolutely. so then what are the similarities and differences and sustainable urban development needs for cities like beijing moon by india, london, u. k. and metal in colombia? well, one thing which i think we are recognizing now is that when people move to cities, they lock 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, then wideman the economy and the society part. they all nodded in a different part. so if you could consider this as a sort of, you know, 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 or another. there 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 local out as one of the, because of saying a lot of people are coming into cities from rural areas and such, well, better employment, better education for their children. and so they are coming in with a huge amount of energy and soon as 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 is, are also now structurally changing with more of the form to us from the evolution coming in. many more people who had decent jobs or to reconsider middle income, decent jobs with after having just in high school are finding themselves being pushed out and don't have much of a prospect of getting anything unless the skill themselves. so that i really do strange which are quite different from each other. and you see this and whether it's based on bio or london or whatever. they had a different parts of 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 have to be somewhat equal and bounce out even very small or large, or 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? i think of 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 their, their whole host of things. but if you look at the basic point, which is that people come to cities, i with the idea of improving their economic conditions. the and then the devil of countries, a lot of young people are coming into cities looking for jobs and looking for livelihoods, which are better than what they will ending in the farm. now in the more advanced city that's not like that, people have the parents have been there. in many cases the parents have

a better quality of life than their children. and so you find that social housing, for example, was quite good in many parts of europe and the 19 seventy's and eighty's or now it does create a problem with the fact that the infrastructure gets old and no one wants to pay a tax that you have to pay a huge amount of tax, if you want to refurbish infrastructure or make the city really compatible with what is required for 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 and the j a gigantic then economists with the world resources institute for your insight. hold on, i want to continue to consider this conversation. because after the break, we're talk about urban development and some of the challenges due to climate change in coven.

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ah, ah, welcome back to the 360 view i'm scanning oh hughes. and i want to continue our conversation with v. j. shaggy nathan at an economist at the world. resources institute, visual, you know, we were sort of talked about this in the previous segment, but i'll 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 production? well as you know, climbing agenda to dimensions,

mitigation dimension and adapt ation dimension. now cities are the ones which are actually the leasing a lot of carbon, and that's taking place already in all the big city. but the one, any city over 1000000 is a major source of carbon emissions and global warming. the other point that you made is about climate adaptation. that is, the parts of the world become no longer useful. 5, it's also 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 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 i will relate is, but having said that, i think the primary challenge in cities all over one is what you do to reduce the

bobbin footprint that this is common everywhere. because even if you go to the border city in a developing country, that is a middle class arising middle class, so buying cars will bind to willows, 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 class which is really big inside. you can just think of the numbers like china, middle class estimates to be about 400000000 in india is about 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. but to 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 slugs 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 bows to record or experience to go by. and one has to figure out how to solve the problem. climate adaptation is going to be a big issue. fortunately, it hasn't come until now, but it is going to become almost 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 for brewing drops and food and everything else to keep the rural. it has also white energy. so that that's the question which i don't think we have to do right now. but you have

climate change is the very big deal and where it makes differences that may then city lead than even the puerto 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 woods, ben demick, which affected every city in the world. but remember, the difference is why substantial between the border cities and what you see in the

more advanced cities of blood in the water cities. a lot of people are 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 falling bad 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 their 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 unpredictable events. and that when they come to hit you,

it's no longer his c r foster no longer predicted the future. and i think that has sunk into many people 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 expanding and 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 a possibility you think the rural life will get renewed? well, and the router lives is austin better than ideal for, you know, in terms of points 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 willing to move on to villages and also agenda 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 and, you know, many of the girls who had school education don't want to go and stand in the martin, you know, transplant, right. they asked the questions like come to boys do it. so, you know, there are some gender stereotypes that changing the router lady self is evolving into something quite different. we still don't know where it's going to go. that the issue on the router side is that we cannot afford to have a situation where the world doesn't produce enough food to feed itself to feed. so now that i think i'm quite optimistic that science and technology are making huge advances and the farmers who are still there are very smart, they don't 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 a large move out of 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 to, it's outside 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 is bad. and so people doorman schooling is very bad, most of all. so people don't want to get a file from the incentive, so there's one of the continued growth in cities. but the, the challenges i'll do is show sustainable growth in the cities in terms of those to the legs of the students. i mention lots of pros and cons to either place. thank you so much for joining us. that was v jagger. nothin. economists with the world resources institute. you know,

there is this difference between someone choosing to live a minimalist 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 for 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 it's been your 360 view of the news affecting you. thanks for watching the news. ah, motivation of the $900.00 pounds is fundamentally racist. now racism leads to genocide, very straightforward. they believe that they also period if you think that you asked your 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, and all the rest of it. and you think no,

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