Fractality: a key to global citizenship and ecological justice

This paper develops the notion of fractality as a concept-of-choice upon which to build a way of knowing or paradigm that may better resonate with the complexities of the human experience of the 21st Century and thus lead to responses different from the winner-loser, us-and-them, for-us-or-against-us polarisation. Fractality is a concept from Mathematics and Complexity Theory; it being an entity that has self-similarity at many scales of focus. It is the scientific expression of the Golden Rule. At different scales of focus, the human fractal can be described as an individual human being, his or her family, the population of his or her town or city, the population of his or her State, Province or Department, the population of his or her nation or the global population in its entirety within the universe. The concept of a fractal makes this complexity manageable to comprehend: because understanding the fractal at one scale of focus is to understand the fractal at all scales of focus, though not with the same degree of precision. This perception of self as self, self as family, self as township, self as national population and self as global population has significant implications for how we choose to govern, decide and act as humans in relation to each other and to ou