Modern live is unthinkable without insurances. A whole industry is living off the uncertainties of live. People have insurances against theft, fire,  car accidents and so forth. Let’s not forget the Health insurance debate in the USA, where about 90 million people do not have it. A part of our salary is deducted for pension  and unemployment. Also a form of a insurance policy! The insurances are taken as a precaution, to be...

The 1984 Nobel prize winner, Bishop Desmond Tutu (1), published on the 21. June 2011 in the Huffpost an article called Our Glorious Diversity, Why We Should Celebrate Difference (2). It is difficult not to agree with Mr. Tutu and what he has written. He described the state of Diversity in a very elegant way. Our world, the whole universe is build on diversity. Let us start from the supposedly smallest parts of nature Atoms, which, as...

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...

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 Ecological Holocaust…The number of victims will exceed the victims of the original Holocaust. The term Holocaust (1) means literally: an offering consumed by fire. It was originally coined, in order to specify what happened to the Jews during the Nazi Reich. Not to be forgotten should be all other victims, who suffered in the Concentration camps of the Nazis. As were the Gypsies, as the Roma and Sinti  community were called at...