Category: Ecology

What does love for nature, nature conservation, animal welfare actually mean? (Published in GralsWelt 4/1997) Anyone who seriously deals with animal welfare, who discovers a love for nature and flora, will soon be faced with crucial questions: Do plants and animals also suffer? Do you have a consciousness? Or, as Christian ethics teaches, does man really have the right to own the earth [...]

(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 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 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 [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 43/2007). A NEW SCIENCE: PHEROLOGY For some years now, there has been a new branch of ecology that has given itself the scientific name of pherology (from the Latin "pherein" = to carry) and is concerned with the carrying capacity of ecosystems. In particular, pherology is concerned with the number of people who are using our earth, or individual [...]