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07:31 Too often when we are faced with a crisis, we build walls in defense. I'm an architect, and I've been trained to seek solutions in permanence -- concrete, steel, glass -- these are all used to build a fortress against nature. But my search for ancient systems and Indigenous technologies has been different. It's been inspired by an idea that we can seed creativity in crisis. inventor 1.발명가 ..

07:01 So though wildfires are a natural disaster, as a consequence of climate change, they're also man-made. And what's so amazing about this is we have the ancient technology that we know can help prevent them, and we've used it for thousands of years. And what I find so fascinating about these technologies is how complex they are and how attuned they are to nature. And then, how resilient we c..

06:09 Just earlier this year, when I was back home in Australia, the craziest thing happened. The burned ash from the bushfires surrounding Sydney rained down on us on Bondi Beach. And worried about carbon emissions -- not viral transmissions -- we were already wearing masks. The air was so choked by a plume of smoke that was so big that it reached as far away as New Zealand. Then in the midst o..

05:46 What amazes me is that while an individual acadja is pretty insignificant, when it's multiplied by 12,000, it creates an Indigenous technology the scale of industrial aquaculture, which is the greatest threat to our mangrove ecosystems... but this technology -- it builds more biodiversity than before. insignificant 1.미미한 2. 중요하지 multiply 1. 곱하다 2. 늘리다 3. 증가시키다 4. 증식시키다 5. 번식하다 indigenous [..

05:00 And then to deal with flooding in a completely other way, the Tofinu tribe has developed the largest lake city in Africa. Ganvié, meaning "We survived, " is built of stilted houses that are organized around a canal system that you can navigate by dugout canoe. And the royal square stands amongst 3,000 stilted buildings that include a post office, a bank, a mosque and even a couple of bars ..

04:26 And this innovation, it's not just a model for chemical and coal-power-free purification. Since Calcutta's core has no formal treatment, it's the city's only way of cleaning the water downstream before it enters the Bay of Bengal. What I find so unbelievable about this infrastructure is that as cities across the world in Asia and in Europe begin to replicate this exact system, Calcutta is ..

03:25 Although global attention is focused on the pandemic, cities are still sinking and sea levels are still rising. And high-tech solutions are definitely going to help us solve some of these problems, but in our rush towards the future, we tend to forget about the past. 03:43 In other parts of the world, where rivers are contaminated with sewage, a city of 15 million people cleans its waste w..

02:37 And the Qasab reed is integral to every aspect of life. It is food for water buffalo, flour for humans and building material for these biodegradable, buoyant islands and their cathedral-like houses that they construct in as little as three days. And this dried Qasab reed, it can be bundled into columns, it can be woven into floors or roofs or walls, and it can also be twisted into a rope t..