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Hi. My name is Ziad Guenoun, 
I am 12 years old.

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Before I start, I'd like to tell you 
how I ended up here.

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A few months ago, I was watching TV,

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when mom came and told me:

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"Ziad, did you show 
your 3D animations to someone ? "

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" Yes, mom, why ? "

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"I was just asked by an organizer from TEDx

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if you want to participate to give 
a vision of Casablanca in 2050."

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"What?" So then, I bugged, I'm telling you!

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But the topic litterelly captivated me.

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So I set myself the goal 
of rising to the challenge.

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That's why I am here today,

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to give you my vision of Casablanca in 2050.

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(Applause)

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Yes, but in 2050, where will we live?

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How will we get around?

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Where will the energies 
we'll be using come from?

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But before talking about Casablanca in 2050,

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why not look at Casablanca today in 2012?

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Many of our neighborhoods look like this!

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The moment I get out of the house, 
the first thing I see is this!

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Three quarters of what I breathe 
[ fake coughing ] is this!

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Worst of all, there's not much greenery around!

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But if tomorrow Casablanca looked like that?

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It rocks, right?

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But if we raze blocks to the ground to replace them 
with parks, where are we going to live?

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Green is beautiful, but 
would we be sleeping the ground?

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I racked my brain a bit more...

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... and found the solution:

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In 2050, we would live here.

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On floating houses!

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Those houses would float 
on buoys assembled together

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to form floating neighborhoods

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and they'd even be antiseismic.

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Not bad, however,

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swimming 2 km everyday 
to go home, er, go to work,

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is not ideal.

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So I looked back on today and I thought:

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what's happening today?

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Sure there's this talk, but besides that?

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There's an even more important event 
for Casablanca residents:

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the movie premiere of <i>The Hobbit</i> !

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Just kidding!

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It's the opening of the tramway, of course !

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So I combined this advanced technology,

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which really is as old as my great-grandparents,

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with the fact that we'll have to go from the sea
to the ground, so so as to get he Aquatram!

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Let me clarify something here:

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I made those images myself.

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You can't find them on Google. 
Aren't they good ?

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(Applause)

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So, I get back to 2050,

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the houseboats would use 
fully renewable energies

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such as hydropower thanks to wheels 
using ocean current energy,

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and solar thanks to solar panels.

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While wind power would be used 
to supply the dry land

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thanks to off-shore farms.

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Let's recap :

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in 2050, we'll exploit 
the maritime space of Casablanca

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to extend the city and make it, 
why not, a megalopolis,

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knowing that we'll also 
be using sea transport,

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that we'll be using fully renewable energies,

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and that we'll build more parks on dry land.

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Thank you so much for your attention.

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Bye... See you in 2050.

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(Applause)