For some reason, or other’s, the Transportation Ministry decided that the greater Tel Aviv area in Israel is in dire needs for a reform of it’s public transportation system. And they are right. Public transportation is, to put it mildly, catastrophic. The reform took off at the beginning of July 2011 and it is bound to fail. As of now, in the second week, it is not heard that it brought much improvement to the situation...

Ecology or Sustainability. What is the difference? In the last decades of the 20.century Ecology (1) was the buzzword in the public debate about the deplorable state of nature and the bleak outlook into the future. More and more people started to understand that the environmental decline is leading to a big problem. The nuclear threat, a conflict between the East and the West, with all the fall out, did nothing to pacify the people. And...

Water (1) is such a everyday item that no one is really wasting any thought about it. It is simply taken for granted that it exists. And water does exist in abundance, just that the water for human consumption is only a miniscule fraction of all the water on earth.  The situation will aggravate with the expected Global Population Growth (2) from now, about seven billion to nine billion people at the year 2050! The amount of potable...

Global society will in the near future be confronted with three major problems. The first problem. The present world population, seven billion, is already an acute problem. And it will be an even bigger problem as soon as nine billion people will inhabit the earth. This is estimated to happen merely 40 years from now, around the middle of the century! The second problem. The shadows of the global debts are looming on the horizon and will...

On the 12. june 2011, our avid reader Christina Carabini raised a important question (1). “Many people in the media and elsewhere use the terms climate change and global warming interchangeably as if they were the same thing” I spontaneously answered her and explained in one short sentence, how I understand the difference between Global Warming and Climate Change. Climate Change is the result of Global Warming. The question...

The Cup is Full The New York Times published on 06. June 2011 the op-ed by Thomas L. Friedman, The Earth is Full (1). So what’s new, Mr. Friedman? We all knew it to be so. Or at least we should have known. It is inevitable, that humanity has it’s effects on nature. Nature was not too much disturbed, by the few people roaming the earth in the Stone Age. As long as world population was small, nature could easily balance...