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So in fact, something we realized, we can't just use the web, we have to worry about what the underlying infrastructure of the whole thing, is it in fact of a quality that we need?
Since the 1950s, as the population of the medina grew, basic urban infrastructure such as green open spaces and sewage quickly changed and got highly stressed.
And so, to avoid open defecation, municipalities and cities build infrastructure, for example, like pit latrines, in peri-urban and rural areas.
So we've got to rethink sanitation, and we've got to reinvent the sanitation infrastructure, and I'm going to argue that to do this, you have to employ systems thinking.
Well, I'm going to argue that governments should fund sanitation infrastructure.
Governments should fund sanitation the same way they fund roads and schools and hospitals and other infrastructure like bridges, because we know, and the WHO has done this study, that for every dollar that we invest in sanitation infrastructure, we get something like three to 34 dollars back. Let's go back to the problem of pit emptying.
We've made similarly sinister design decisions on any number of issues, from water infrastructure to where we decide to place grocery stores versus liquor stores, or even for whom and how we design and fund technology products.
They had such good infrastructure that even at the time they had a fiber-optic telephone system, long before it had reached Western countries.
Initially, this too was amazing: growing economy, excellent infrastructure, and it seemed like it was a model for economic development in Africa.
We were asked to accommodate 100 families that had been occupying illegally half a hectare in the center of the city of Iquique in the north of Chile using a $10,000 subsidy with which we had to buy the land, provide the infrastructure, and build the houses that, in the best of the cases, would be of around 40 square meters.
Second alternative: build a big wall, heavy infrastructure to resist the energy of the waves.
Very egotistical: he carries only one or two people and he asks always for more infrastructure.
And by South, I mean Latin America, Africa, Asia, where violence in some cases is accelerating, where infrastructure is overstretched, and where governance is sometimes an aspiration and not a reality.
China's not only exporting air pollution, but they're also exporting aid, infrastructure, technology abroad.
President Xi Jinping in 2013 announced the One Belt, One Road Initiative, a massive, one-trillion-US-dollar infrastructure investment project in more than 60 other countries.
And historically, when we've seen that China has made these infrastructure investments abroad, they haven't always been clean.
In general, our infrastructure saves some animals and dooms others.
These are the numbers that make up the infrastructure of New York City.
These are the statistics of our infrastructure.
I'm trying to improve infrastructure.
Let me give you another example, and that example is the infrastructure group of Google.
The infrastructure group of Google is the group that has to keep the website up and running 24/7.
The head of the engineering group and the infrastructure group at that time was a man named Bill Coughran.
By the time my generation walked the streets, disinvestment at the local, state and federal level, eroded infrastructure, and the War on Drugs dismantled my family and community.
We need an infrastructure dynamic enough to handle these seismic shifts in our population.
So if we think about an extreme weather event that might happen in some part of the world, and if that happens in a part of the world where there is good infrastructure, where there are people that are well-insured and so on, then that impact can be disruptive.
But if that exact same weather event happens in a part of the world where there is poor infrastructure, or where people are not well-insured, or they're not having good support networks, then that same climate change impact could be devastating.
And the problem with these extremes, and not just the temperature extremes, but also the extremes in terms of storms and other climate impacts, is our infrastructure is just not set up to deal with these sorts of events.
Our infrastructure has not been designed to cope with this.
And that's because with all the will in the world, the large-scale engineering infrastructure that we need to roll out rapidly to decarbonize the supply side of our energy system is just simply not going to happen in time.
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