Walk "Flussabwärts Denken - river mouth"

The river mouth (Mündung) is dedicated to our relationship with the dimension of time. Here we encounter the writer Gert Heidenreich, who, in his declaration of love to “Frau Atlantik”, confronts the toxins of eternity that our industrial society discharges downstream into the oceans. Heidenreich contrasts our conception of time with the Iroquois principle of the seven generations: Whatever we do today must not jeopardize the well-being of the next seven generations. In dealing with nuclear waste, our civilization has created a presumptuous measure of time: we are talking about millions of years here; one could speak of a plutonium era, a tributary of the Anthropocene.

Cultural anthropologist Jenny Garcia Ruales from Ecuador will explain the constitutional amendment in her home country. In 2008, Ecuador granted nature—or Pachamama—its own rights in its constitution. Pacha refers to a cosmos that encompasses both time and space, and embodies the responsibility of us Earthlings, similar to the Iroquois concept.

Meeting point: North of the Braunau railway bridge