Frankfurter Allgemeine
Growth and diversity in a finite world: how a mathematical approach to existing problems could solve the climate crisis.
We are at the end of an era, the era 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 real dilemma of limitation 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 movement in a finite world through growth into diversity. Not growth into more, but growth into diversity. And not theoretically, but very practically….
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