(Published in GralsWelt 44/2007) By James Lovelock Why the earth defends itself List-Verlag, 2006 James Lovelock (born July 26, 1919) is a chemist, doctor and biophysicist, one of the most prominent representatives of the environmental movement. As a chemist, Lovelock developed the electron capture detector (ECD) with which chlorinated environmental toxins can be detected sensitively. At the beginning of the 1970s he formulated together with [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 45/2007) Centuries before Christ: the first end-time proclamation between 1,500 and 600 BC BC - archaeologists and philologists are far apart in their dates - the Persian bringer of truth Zarathustra (Greek: Zoroaster. Cf. “A Persian bringer of truth” under “History of religion”) proclaimed the supreme god Ahura Mazda, the creator of all things, from whom only Good comes out. [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 43/2007) In 1798 a text on classical economics, which is still frequently quoted today, was published, which has been rejected by most of its readers since its first publication. Do-gooders, moralists, ecologists, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, theologians: almost all of them reject this work with the most varied of arguments. And yet it is mentioned again and again. [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 40/2006) If we find a clock while walking, we will hardly ponder the way in which a hurricane might have raged in a junkyard so that this clock could come about purely by chance. Because it is clear to everyone that it must have been a watchmaker who designed and built them. A clock is [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 42/2007) The most successful documentary of all time has recently been released in Germany (and many other countries): An Inconvenient Truth. The topic is “global warming” and the consequences that it will have to deal with. The updated scientific data and statements in image and sound [...]
Jeffrey Sachs, a refined privatizer? (Published in GralsWelt 40/2006) Jeffrey D. Sachs “The End of Poverty”, Siedler München, 2005. Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's best-known economists. His career is extraordinary. At the age of 28 he was one of the youngest Harward professors. Then he advised governments of several states, and Kofi Anam, the UN Secretary General, appointed him [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 43/2007) On October 30th, a study on global warming was presented in London (2). The study was commissioned by the government under the leadership of the world-famous economist Sir Nicholas Stern (born 1946). He was chief economist at the World Bank from 2000-2003 and is currently an advisor to the UK government. Its alarming and no longer ignorable results [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 45/2007) By Barber Malcolm, Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2005. In GrailWelt we have mentioned the Knights Templar several times. Many books and writings - historically correct, esoteric, fantastic, romantic - deal with the history and myth of the Templars, about whose work and decline there are many legends. Recently, [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 40/2006) By Helmut Hansen, Verlag Via Nova, 36100 Petersberg. The present book has a surprising title, which at first suggests highly esoteric explanations full of transcendent speculations. Then you are pleasantly surprised when reading it, because it is a thoroughly factual work that is worth reading. First of all, [...]
(Published in GralsWelt special issue 18/2006) Nature does not produce unusable rubbish. Only we humans unbalance ecological cycles - to our own detriment. The life-sustaining systems of our home planet suffer from serious undesirable developments: Actually, we humans have known for millennia that there are things that grow back and that there are deposits of raw materials that are lost when [...]