The new year has just started. We are in the second year of the second decade of this century. The usual greetings at new year is peace on earth. A noble, but futile gesture. War in the 21. century seems a little archaic, doesn’t it? (1) Let’s get down to some disturbing facts. The American military just pulled out of Iraq. The war there has officially ended there. But no one really knows if the supposed democratic transition...

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...

Today we know, or should know, that 3 problems are lurking just around the corner, in the not too far future. These problems are: 1. World Population – WP 2. Climate Change – CC 3. Global Debts – GD Some might object, that CC is a scam. And perhaps they are right. But what if it is not a scam? Who is going to take responsibility then? All these CC-deniers? I don’t think so. Their grand children will take the can...

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 children which are born today, will in the middle of the century be 40 years old. The children born 10 years ago will be 50. People in the middle of their lives and perhaps having children of their own. What kind of future will they have? Will they have a decent live or will they have to fight for survival? It can be taken for granted, that in the year 2050 World Population will be around 9 billion people. Whether the Climate Changes or...