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Saturday, 12th october 2024. Part one. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) first planetary defence spacecraft left Earth (Florida) earlier this week on a Falcon 9 rocket (from Elon Musk, Space X) and took off into space, just in time – before Hurricane Milton completely destroyed the area. The fact is that once a rocket has been launched and disappeared into …

Saturday 5th October 2024. Jane Goodall, a British scientist and environmental activist, asked the German doctor and scientific journalist Eckart von Hirschhausen: “If we as humans claim to be the smartest species on the planet, why are we destroying our own home?” This question can be found in the new bestseller ‘Unlearn CO2 – Time for a climate without crisis’, …

Saturday the 21st september 2024. Thinking about our individual carbon footprint can be an important part of the solution to the environmental threats that we face. Of course, we also need to talk about the big climate criminals and find a transnational exit strategy for them: for BP, Shell and Exxon, for Gazprom, Aramco, China-Coal and Rio Tinto, and for …

Saturday 7th September 2024 684,000 is the number that ultimately matters. That’s how many people work for a multinational company in the automobile industry: worldwide and not just in Germany, but also in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, the Czech Republic, the USA, Brazil and China, and not just at Volkswagen AG, but also at Seat, Skoda, Audi, Cupra and Porsche: 684,000 …

Saturday 3rd August 2024. I imagine a friend of mine is celebrating his birthday and invites his 20 best friends to his birthday party. He prepares a cold buffet and provides enough food and drink for 20 people: a few crates of beer, some bottles of good wine and, of course, non-alcoholic drinks. His birthday gradually draws nearer, and, on …

Saturday 27th July 2024. A pocketknife can be a friendly companion in the forest of Monchique. Monchique is a village in the mountain range of the same name in south-west Portugal, at the beginning or end of Europe – it all depends on which way you look at it. Portugal, and the Monchique Mountains in particular, are known for their …

Saturday, the 13th of July 2024. It’s obvious that the Algarve and its inhabitants are faced with a serious problem. Until now, everyone had assumed that the supply of water available on our planet was unlimited. Now, however, this misconception that all resources are unlimited for all sectors of the economy is being shattered. So, the solution that is being …

Saturday 22 June 2024. Continuation of last week’s interview: Eco123: There are still people who don’t care about their ecological footprint. LR: People who really don’t care at all… Eco123: They’re going to eat meat seven days a week, drive diesel cars, fly to Brazil on holiday… and they don’t want to plant trees. What do you do with the …

Saturday 16th March 2024. The people’s sovereign voice has spoken. That’s the way it is in a democracy: the Socialist Party took a bit of a beating and emerged with a couple of black eyes. But the AD alliance of conservative parties didn’t win anything either. The democratic parties lost in these elections. Those who haven’t realised this yet will …

Saturday 7th October 2023. The world is heading for a turning point – slowly, in slow-motion nearly. Every year things are becoming a bit hotter, every year there is a little less rain. Then there’s rain once more, all of a sudden, all at once and in huge quantities. Fertile soil, so important for agriculture, is flushed away. What remains …