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Moreover, today, more than half of the world's population
除此以外，超過世界人口的一半以上
live in cities.
都居住生活在城市。
In the developed world, it's about 78 percent.
在發達國家中，這種比例達到了78%。
More than three out of four people
超過了四分之三的人口
live in urban institutions, urban places,
居住在城市的機構、場所，
in cities today.
城市的各個地方。
So cities are where the action is.
所以，城市，才應該是我們采取行動的所在地。
Cities are us. Aristotle said in the ancient world,
城市就是我們。
man is a political animal.
亞里士多德曾說過，“在古代，人們就是政治性動物。”
I say we are an urban animal.
而我說，我們是城市性動物。
We are an urban species, at home in our cities.
我們是以城市為棲息地的物種。
So to come back to the dilemma,
讓我們再回到一開始我們所說到的窘境，
if the dilemma is we have old-fashioned
如果這種窘境是因為我們現在所擁有的古舊的
political nation-states unable to govern the world,
政治體系（民族、國家）無法統治這個世界，
respond to the global challenges that we face
也無法回應我們面臨的全球性挑戰，
like climate change,
如氣候變化的問題，
then maybe it's time for mayors to rule the world,
也許是時候讓市長們統治這個世界的時候了，
for mayors and the citizens and the peoples they represent
是時候讓市長們，市民的忠實喉舌，
to engage in global governance.
去參與到全球問題的管理中來。
When I say if mayors ruled the world,
當我說，“如果市長們可以統治這個世界”，
when I first came up with that phrase,
當我第一次想到這個說法的時候，
it occurred to me that actually, they already do.
我突然認識到，他們其實已經這樣做了。
There are scores of international, inter-city,
現如今在城市中已經有許多的跨國、跨市、
cross-border institutions, networks of cities
跨境、連接眾多城市的組織
in which cities are already, quite quietly,
已經在悄無聲息中，
below the horizon, working together
合作無間，
to deal with climate change, to deal with security,
共同對抗氣候變化、安全問題、
to deal with immigration,
處理移民問題，
to deal with all of those tough,
和那些縱使艱難，
interdependent problems that we face.
但仍需要面對的共存性問題。
They have strange names:
這些組織有著一些奇怪的名字：
UCLG,
UCLG (United Cities And Local Governments)
United Cities and Local Governments;
城市和地方政府聯合；
ICLEI,
ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Issues.)
the International Council for Local Environmental Issues.
國際地方環境理事會，
And the list goes on:
這樣的例子不勝枚舉：
Citynet in Asia; City Protocol, a new organization
亞洲城市組織 Citynet in Asia；
out of Barcelona that is using the web
城市協議組織 City Protocol（一個在巴塞羅那新成立的組織，
to share best practices among countries.
它通過運用網絡共享城市中成功的案例）
And then all the things we know a little better,
還有一些我們更熟悉的組織，
the U.S. Conference of Mayors,
美國市長會 U.S. Conference of Mayors
the Mexican Conference of Mayors,
墨西哥市長會 Mexican Conference of Mayors
the European Conference of Mayors.
歐洲市長會 European Conference of Mayors
Mayors are where this is happening.
正因為市長們，這些組織們才得以成立。
And so the question is,
所以，問題來了，
how can we create a world
我們如何建立一個
in which mayors and the citizens they represent
市長們和他們所代表的的市民們
play a more prominent role?
可以更扮演更重要角色的世界？
Well, to understand that,
要回答這個問題，
we need to understand why cities are special,
我們首先要了解城市是如此特別的原因，
why mayors are so different
了解為何市長與總理和總統們相比
than prime ministers and presidents,
與眾不同的原因。
because my premise is that a mayor and a prime minister
那是因為我的首要前提是市長和總理
are at the opposite ends of a political spectrum.
處在一個政治譜系中相反的兩端
To be a prime minister or a president,
要成為一名總理或是總統，
you have to have an ideology,
你必須要有思想意識，
you have to have a meta-narrative,
你必須要元敘述（即對歷史的意義、經歷和知識的敘述）
you have to have a theory of how things work,
你還必須要有上任后如何使國家運作的理論基礎，
you have to belong to a party.
您必須要從屬于一個政黨。
Independents, on the whole,
如若你是無黨派人士，自由、獨立的個體，
don't get elected to office.
那么你就無法被選舉。
But mayors are just the opposite.
但，市長們則相反。
Mayors are pragmatists, they're problem-solvers.
市長是實用主義者，他們能夠解決問題。
Their job is to get things done, and if they don't,
他們的責任就在于完成任務，
they're out of a job.
他們一旦失敗就會失業。
Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia said,
費城納特市的市長曾經說過，
we could never get away here in Philadelphia
“在費城，我們不能眼看著華盛頓的
with the stuff that goes on in Washington,
麻痹無能、不作為
the paralysis, the non-action, the inaction.
和遲鈍。
Why? Because potholes have to get filled,
為什么？因為漏洞需要被填補，
because the trains have to run,
只有這樣火車才能夠正常運行，
because kids have to be able to get to school.
只有這樣孩子們才能夠享受教育。”
And that's what we have to do,
而那就是我們要做的，
and to do that is about pragmatism
去做那些實質性的事，
in that deep, American sense,
從美國人的思維來說，
reaching outcomes.
那就是去做那些能夠達到成果的事。
Washington, Beijing, Paris, as world capitals,
華盛頓，北京，巴黎，世界的首都都一樣，
are anything but pragmatic,
一點都不務實。
but real city mayors have to be pragmatists.
但是市長們卻不得不務實，
They have to get things done,
他們必須確保使事物運轉，
they have to put ideology and religion and ethnicity aside
他們必須摒棄意識形態、宗教和民族差異
and draw their cities together.
把他們的城市聯系起來。
