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But it got violent in the last two decades and includes decapitation and the death of two mayors.
I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.
In Britain, it could mean looking to the French, learning from the French, getting directly elected mayors in place in a French commune system.
So to come back to the dilemma, if the dilemma is we have old-fashioned political nation-states unable to govern the world, respond to the global challenges that we face like climate change, then maybe it's time for mayors to rule the world, for mayors and the citizens and the peoples they represent to engage in global governance.
When I say if mayors ruled the world, when I first came up with that phrase, it occurred to me that actually, they already do.
And so the question is, how can we create a world in which mayors and the citizens they represent play a more prominent role?
Well, to understand that, we need to understand why cities are special, why mayors are so different than prime ministers and presidents, because my premise is that a mayor and a prime minister are at the opposite ends of a political spectrum.
But mayors are just the opposite.
Mayors are pragmatists, they're problem-solvers.
Washington, Beijing, Paris, as world capitals, are anything but pragmatic, but real city mayors have to be pragmatists.
That's what mayors do.
So mayors are pragmatists and problem-solvers.
But the second thing about mayors is they are also what I like to call homeboys, or to include the women mayors, homies.
Mayors are usually from the places they govern.
And as a result, mayors and city councillors and local authorities have a much higher trust level, and this is the third feature about mayors, than national governing officials.
In Copenhagen, four or five years ago, 184 nations came together to explain to one another why their sovereignty didn't permit them to deal with the grave, grave crisis of climate change, but the mayor of Copenhagen had invited 200 mayors to attend.
We can create a global parliament of mayors.
Mayors are considering that idea of how you can actually constitute a global parliament of mayors, and I love that idea, because a parliament of mayors is a parliament of citizens and a parliament of citizens is a parliament of us, of you and of me.
I'm working in cities for almost 40 years, and where every mayor is trying to tell me his city is so big, or the other mayors say, "We don't have financial resources," I would like to say from the experience I had: every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.
As a result, city enthusiasts, they talk about the triumph of the city, of the creative classes, and the mayors that will rule the world.
Now, I hope that mayors do one day rule the world, but, you know, the fact is, we don't hear any conversation, really, about what is happening in the South.
A wonderful example of this is coming from El Salvador and Los Angeles, where the mayors in San Salvador and Los Angeles are collaborating on getting ex-gang members to work with current gang members, offering tutoring, education, and in the process are helping incubate cease-fires and truces, and we've seen homicide rates go down in San Salvador, once the world's most violent city, by 50 percent.
We go to the mayors or the governors of this world, and say, "We can guarantee a short-term reduction of pollution between 20 and 40 percent.
Lots of us mayors do that.
And so they applied it to issue after issue in Baltimore, and today, it's being used by mayors across the country to deal with some of our greatest challenges.
As I travel around the world and meet mayors and civic leaders, I'm amazed by the energy, enthusiasm and effectiveness they bring to their work.
And my job was to work with mayors and councilors nationwide.
The second one was the San Francisco Bay Area where Gavin Newsom created a beautiful policy across all the mayors.
They leave also instructions for the future generations to return the surface of the planet in a steel box that should be kept by the mayors through the generations.
They leave also instructions for the future generations to return to the surface of the planet in a steel box that should be kept by the mayors through the generations.
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