There was never really peace during the reign of humanity on earth. The reasons were always different but there was always one final answer – war.  Wars about a way of life. Either mine or yours! Today it is a clash of cultures and the respective ways of life. The still very powerful way of the western culture is being challenged by many different ways of life. All the emerging Superpowers, like China, India and South America exert...

Mankind is the only being on earth which needs an excessive amount of resources. Some animals also need resources, like the birds need the material to build their nests. But this is still part of the natural cycle and is constantly recycled. And only as much is used as is really needed. While we human beings use the resources provided by nature as though it is inexhaustible. And we use the resources even when we don’t need it....

The Specter of a Climate Change is haunting us. While we stare at the Gordian knot and hope for the best. Someday something or someone will cut the knot and the specter will be exorcised. We still have time, this is what we all want to believe. But this is only wishful thinking. The old year was an accumulation of floods all over the world. The new year, just two weeks old starts off with three major floods on three continents. Australia,...

The Germans have a beautiful language, although it isn’t very melodic. But some things can only be expressed in German. Just to name a few; Ersatz, Doppelgänger, Hinterland, Kindergarten and, at last but not least, Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist links two words to a new one and gets a different meaning. Zeit means time and Geist means Spirit. Therefore the meaning of Zeitgeist could be translated as the spirit of the time or, rather,...

No organism can be called healthy when its integrity is disturbed. The integrity of the human body can be totally destroyed by microscopically small bacterias, or even smaller, viruses. To fight the infection, the immune system needs to be strong and healthy. The integrity of nature seems to be damaged. The climate change could be the symptomes of the organism earth in agony. The virus infection of humanity is in...

Greenpeace, the internationally renowned environment organization, has almost mythological proportions. No one can deny Greenpeace its accomplishments. At the time the organization was established the environmental concerns were almost non existent in the public. Greenpeace has its fair share in building up public awareness. For this even a member got killed, when the French secret service blew up the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New...