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There was the Iraq War, and as you can see by that lower blue line there, over a million refugees come into the cities.

So now they're in the cities, the Iraqis are in the cities, it's Assad, it's not like he's taking care of his people, and all of a sudden we have just this huge issue here of massive instability and a breeding ground for extremism.

If we get our cities right, we just might survive the 21st century.

There's a reason why three million people are moving to cities every single week.

But cities have a dark side.

There are hundreds of thousands of people who die in our cities every single year from violence, and millions more who are killed as a result of car accidents and pollution.

In Brazil, where I live, we've got 25 of the 50 most homicidal cities on the planet.

So cities are dual-edged.

Part of the problem is that, apart from a handful of megacities in the West and the Far East, we don't know that much about the thousands of cities in Africa, in Latin America, in Asia, where 90 percent of all future population growth is set to take place.

We have these 193 nation-states, but we have easily as many cities that are beginning to rival them in power and influence.

I want you to first imagine the world not as made up of nation-states, but as made up of cities.

Now obviously, some cities are more fragile than others.

When cities become too fragile they can collapse, tip over and fail.

And in the process, over a million people moved into cities like Aleppo, Damascus and Homs.

That's because two-thirds of the world's cities are coastal.

Many of you know Miami is one of the wealthiest cities in the United States; it's also one of the most flood-prone.

Despite climate denial at the highest levels, cities are taking action.

You know, when the US pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, hundreds of cities in the United States and thousands more around the world doubled down on their climate commitments.

And when the White House cracked down on so-called "undocumented migrants" in sanctuary cities, hundreds of cities and counties and states sat up in defiance and refused to enact that order.

So cities are and can take action.

It's a small opportunity but a golden one: in the next 10 to 20 years, to really start designing in principles of resilience into our cities.

First: cities need a plan and a strategy to implement it.

I mean, it sounds crazy, but the vast majority of world cities don't actually have a plan or a vision.

What cities need is nothing less than a devolution revolution, and this is going to require renegotiating the terms of the contract with a nation-state.

There are more than 8,000 cities right now in the world today with solar plants.

There are 300 cities that have declared complete energy autonomy.

There are a thousand other cities just like it.

The most successful cities are those that are going to invest in solutions that don't solve just one problem, but that solve multiple problems.

The death of all cities is the sprawl.

But as you can see, it spread into edge cities and suburbia as far as the eye can see.

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