Demokratie und Revolution - Buchvorstellung

In the organizer's words:

Is the necessary revolution to preserve the foundations of life compatible with the defense and development of democracy?

Young people are breaking the law on the streets and invoking the climate ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court, according to which the living do not have the right to halve the freedom of future generations. The German government is not adhering to the Paris Agreement and at the same time is coming up against the limits of growth and the debt brake, because the costs of the climate crisis and climate change have to be met at the same time.

A contradiction has arisen between democracy and ecology, between the unavoidable pressure of time and the seemingly God-given slowness of democracy. In conversation with Federal Minister Wolfgang Schmidt and Spiegel editor Jonas Schaible, historian Hedwig Richter and ZEIT journalist Bernd Ulrich want to overcome this contradiction and show how a necessary revolution to preserve our livelihoods can go hand in hand with the necessary defense and development of democracy. To do this, they look back and into the future. They ask about the dark side of the history of democracy, about the often destructive social and fossil conditions under which our democracy has developed in Germany and elsewhere. And they outline a future that also guarantees future generations the freedom to shape their own destiny, which is essential for a democracy.

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Admission: 8 €, reduced: 5 €, members: 3 €