Proceedings of the 19th IPSAPA/ISPALEM - International Scientific Conference. The Turning Point of the Landscape-cultural Mosaic: Renaissance Revelation Resilience

Turning Point is the provocative term geologist and (today) opinion leader Gregg Braden uses to encourage all of us to reflect on the ways that science and culture are traveling. In his work "he is known internationally as a pioneer in building a bridge between science and indigenous skills in view of real solutions for today's world." This is not the first laudator temporis acti (admirer of the past) but his characteristic is to challenge many stereotypes of the contemporary world from the inside, and not just as a confused outside observer as sometimes happens in nostalgic literature. For him the turning point is the obliged moment to bring back the world before it falls into a chaotic structure no longer controllable. Experts of complexity however tell us that progress can only be born in a world that hovers on the brink of chaos. Braden, after living as an expert in the world of complexity, casts doubts on this statement and sets limits beyond which the risk of uncontrollable fall becomes too high. Its wide reflection on resilience shows the need to maintain, while there is still time, a reserve capacity, unexpressed but accessible.