Acting in the Age of Multiple Crises? Acting in the Age of Ecocide? Acting on Stage?

Abstract

If one turns as a writer to the central question of multiple ecological crises, the question of action becomes a key question. Why don’t we act? Who is acting? What is the action? There is a noticeable amount of symbolic politics, but progress is being made in the legal field and the legal system is changing. One of my papers below deals with rivers becoming legal entities, and this is a fundamental challenge to logic. The idea of writing my play The Water (original German title Das Wasser) was created at the request of scientists, and included many conversations with experts in action. What are we doing? Why does this huge braking effect occur, and what does it have to do with generational conflict? There are many questions that need to be answered. The second part of my two articles published below (Dear River, original German title Liebes Wasser) emphasizes that law itself is part of economic logic, even if it is supposed to be above it. At least as applied law.