DRESDEN SPEECHES 2023
DRESDEN SPEECHES 2023
‘The folding of the world: a democratic way out of climate crisis and growth dilemma’
We are at the end of the age of expansion – and we need a new narrative for the next step. The limitations of our planet collide with the reality and necessity of rapid social development. If we accept that both are harsh realities, then we are faced with a dilemma of finiteness and dynamism. The desperate, albeit understandable, call for renunciation and reflection is helpless and unproductive, because it does not resolve the dilemma. The mathematical principle of folding could provide this solution, because it allows infinite development in a finite world through growth.
