This is worth reading!: The trap of a closed fist: Is democracy capable of preventing a global ecological catastrophe?

In May 2024, the seventh Starmus festival was held in Bratislava, Slovakia, under the theme “The Future of Our Home Planet”. More than 50 leading scientists from climate science, environmental science, astronomy, the natural sciences, and artificial intelligence, including nine Nobel Prize laureates, gave lectures, and well-known musicians performed, Jean Michel Jarre, among many others. Founded by the astrophysicists and musicians Brian May and Garik Israeli, Starmus, which combines the words Stars and Music, is a celebration of science and the arts. Once, these two domains of human activity belonged inseparably to each other (Fig. 1). That is why the unattainable work of Leonardo da Vinci, in which creative and analytical moments enhanced each other, never ceases to enchant us.