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Measuring Impacts of Global Supply Chains and Public Luxury in Cities
And what's our impact on people worldwide through global supply chains?/nWhat kind of metrics could we collect?/nThis replaces saying I'm making the stat up, but for example, I say, oh, you know, Grenobs, GDP is increased by 1.3% over the last year./nI mean, is that good or bad?/nHow will I know anything from that?/nIf I'm measuring the metrics of a place in real terms, in terms of people's lives, in terms of the ecological health and its impact in the world, it's a real story and a much more detailed story about what's happening here./nLike many cities transforming their transport systems, reducing cars, bringing in public transit and much more cycling./nThey've introduced a tax on property actually because they say we have huge inequality in our city./nWe reduce the inequalities./nSo this is quite an elected local government with pretty progressive mandate that is saying, yeah, this helps us go in that direction./nJust in terms of the kinds of actions that I see when I go to cities like Connob, like Barcelona, like Copenhagen, what recurs to me again and again is a beautiful phrase that the environmental journalist George Mombio once wrote./nHe wrote about the UK./nHe said, look, what we have here is private luxury and public squalor./nWhat we need is public luxury and private sufficiency./nWhen I go to places like these cities, I say, ah, yeah, this is what public luxury looks like, fantastic public parks, incredible mobility, low cost, fast, clean, efficient transport, good quality social housing./nAnd we have private sufficiency.