100 years after the outbreak of the First World War on August 1, 1914 (Published in GralsWelt 83/2014) "Now the lights are going out in Europe, and none of the living will see them shine." This is how British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey (1862-1933), the man who, according to historian Golo Mann, "could have prevented the war," felt about the [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 84/2014, page 44) In August 2013, a strange report went through the media: An elite student was doing his internship at a major bank. Due to total overwork, the 22-year-old young man collapsed one day quite unexpectedly exhausted and died. The incident gives rise to some thoughts about the current formation of a new elite, [...].
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In the light of truth
Grail Message from Abd-ru-shin Verlag of the Grail Message Foundation Stuttgart, www.gralsbotschaft.org. “In the Light of Truth” is one of the most demanding of all book titles imaginable. But this work lives up to the highest expectations - provided one delves into it without prejudice. “What is truth?” Asked the philosophically educated Roman prefect Pontius Pilate in the year 30 the accused Jesus. This was silent. He, [...]
(Published April 2014) Long before the industrial age, an ancient city provided an example of capitalist economics. Carthage's advanced economy secured great success for the trading power, but came at the cost of many human lives. After its destruction by the Romans, the latter adopted the successful model, but were now inexorably heading toward their decay ... The New York of the [...]
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Ten billion
By Stephen Emmott Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42385-1 There are many writings on environmental issues. But Stephen Emmott's "Ten Billion" is unique. It deserves to be the book of the year! Emmott's stage play "Ten Billion" was also a sensational success in London. Stephen Emmott teaches at Oxford and runs a research laboratory for computer-aided [...]
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"Showdown" by Dirk Müller
The battle for Europe and our money Droemer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-27605-1 What's wrong with Europe? Bank crash, debt crisis, bailouts, mass unemployment in the southern countries, protest movements... How could the European economy, after the much acclaimed introduction of the common currency EURO in seventeen countries (of currently 28 member states of the European Union), get into this turbulence, which is far from [...]
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The view over the threshold
Published in Grail World Special Issue 24 In the life of a human being there is one certainty: that the earthly life cycle is limited. Living beings are - from a physical point of view - unstable systems which have to be maintained by continuous energy supply. In the process, they change continuously and at some point come to their inevitable end. The maximum lifetime of a living organism on [...]
Why we should erect a monument to the earthworm (Published in GralsWelt 78/2013) It is surprising, almost dismaying, to learn how ignorant many people still were in the 19th century. How little, for example, farmers knew about their arable land with its soil life, on the fertility of which depended the crop yields and thus the well-being of many people. We are not talking here [...]
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Do we need a second planet?
Ecological Turnaround or Catastrophic End Günter Albert Ulmer (Published in GralsWelt 76/2013) Our world is suffering from multiple exponential growth: the population is growing exponentially, consumption per capita is growing exponentially, and the big capital owners want their profits to grow exponentially as well. They must, it seems, in order to further increase their influence over politicians and governments [...]
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2052
The new report to the Club of Rome by Jorgen Randers. Oekom, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86581-398-5, 430 pages. (Published in Grail World 76/2013) In 1972, 40 years ago, the first report to the Club of Rome appeared under the title: "The limits of growth", which wanted to draw attention to the fact that the earth is limited and therefore that [...]