Environment

This topic focuses on ecological issues, the role of mankind and what we can do for the sustainable future of our planet

Did you know that …

… 6 planets would be needed, if everone had the same consumer habits as those in the industrialised countries?
… every minute 35 football fields of forest are felled worldwide in order to free up agriculturally useful land.
… fishing with large fleets creates a 40% bycatch, which is thrown back into the sea either dead or dying?
… the small Southern Ocean state Vanuatu is the country with the happiest people worldwide?
… the global water consumption has tripled since 1950 and that around 70% of the water used is accounted for by griculture?
… for the production of one kilowatt hour of atom- or carbon electricity are used 50 litres of drinking water?
… the price for atom electricity is artifically kept down through subsidies?
… exist more insects on a 2 square kilometer rural area than people in the whole world?
… 1,3 billion tones of eatable food is dumped per year?
… cotton is the product with the highest pesticide load in agriculture? 11 percent of the pesticide expenditure worldwide is used for it.