For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic p
lates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepancy between ma
jor social changes and institutions that have remained the same since WWII.
Ser
res, one of the first to bring nature into the political, writes, "To destroy, k
ill, exploit is worthless. In the long run, it means destroying ourselves." At a
time when the world population has grown so much that it is exhausting natural
resources and the environment, we need to rethink cultural, social, and politica
l dynamics. Serres argues that geopolitics and economics will no longer be a two
-player game, between West and East, for example, but a three-player one, in whi
ch is Earth will be the third partner.
