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Jean Pütz has a special concern with this book. He wants to make a significant contribution to saving the climate without jeopardizing the industry and thus the prosperity of the population. To this end, he relies on concepts outside the mainstream. The science journalist speaks plainly - as his audience of millions is used to from his television programs and social media. He doesn't care about "political correctness". He classifies many measures propagated by politicians as populist and strictly rejects them because they do not lead to the desired goal.But he does not stop at criticism. Page by page, he outlines concrete ways to get out of the energy mess and back on track. He has the whole world in mind and provides global answers to the climate and energy issues of our time because only a global approach can lead to the goal.He pulls a regenerative energy source "like a rabbit out of a hat" that can find worldwide acceptance and replace coal, oil and natural gas. His credo is: It's about defossilization, less about decarbonization.As a co-author, he has enlisted the well-known economic journalist Andreas Dripke - a successful symbiosis following the motto "1+1 is more than 2."

L'eau est essentielle à toute forme de vie. Notre planète bleue est bien recouverte à soixante-dix pour cent d'eau, mais moins de trois pour cent sont de l'eau douce potable, dont uniquement un tiers reste accessible à l'homme. Depuis les années 1960, la consommation mondiale d'eau a doublé, mais les ressources n'ont pas suivi.Près de deux milliards de personnes dans le monde n'ont déjà pas un accès régulier à de l'eau potable. Le réchauffement de la planète, causé par le changement climatique, et la croissance simultanée de la population mondiale ne feront qu'empirer la situation.L'eau deviendra une ressource de plus en plus rare : un quart de la population mondiale est exposé à de graves pénuries d'eau. De plus, comme l'agriculture ne peut exister sans eau, des famines sont imminentes.Les experts font référence au « stress hydrique » comme étant la cause de la faim, de conflits et de migrations. Ceux qui croient que ce phénomène affecte seulement l'Afrique du Nord et le Moyen-Orient se méprennent. Car même dans les autres régions du monde, aux Amériques, en Afrique, en Australie, en Asie, et en Europe, ce stress hydrique se fait sentir depuis longtemps.Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteure analyse avec précision ce qui nous attend si nous ne trouvons pas de solution au « problème de l'eau ». Elle montre également comment assurer un approvisionnement mondial en eau dans le futur.

This is the "Diplomatic Council Water Book" which was officially presented at the United Nations Water Conference 2023 in New York.Water is the basis of all life. Although more than 70 percent of our blue planet is covered with water, only three percent of it is fresh water, of which only a third is safe for human beings. Global water consumption has doubled since the 1960s but the resources have not risen proportionately.Approximately two billion people in the world already lack regular access to safe drinking water. Both global warming, which is caused by climate change, and the simultaneous growth of the world's population will lead to a dramatic escalation of the situation. Water will become an increasingly scarce resource: one quarter of the world's population is threatened by acute water shortages. Furthermore, as agriculture cannot exist without water, famines are imminent.Experts consider "water stress" a source of starvation, conflict and migration. Those who believe this affects North Africa and the Middle East only, are mistaken. For also in other parts of the world (America, Asia, Australia, Europe) water stress has long been noticeable.In this book the author precisely analyzes what we will be faced with if we do not succeed in solving the "water problem". At the same time she shows how to secure a global water supply in the future.

Europe has become the battlefield of a merciless proxy war between the superpowers. The war erupted in 2022, but it has been in the offing for more than two decades. In the wake of  the Cold War, Western Europe sought to achieve a peace process in Eastern Europe. The Federal Republic of Germany's Ostpolitik (German policy towards Eastern Europe)  is an example of this. Russia became a partner, almost even a friend. However, at the same time, NATO, under US leadership, expanded further and further east. This development brought the peace process to a standstill and eventually reversed it. Today, Russia and the USA are irreconcilably opposed to each other in Europe. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in spring 2022 has made any peaceful agreement between Europe and Russia impossible for the foreseeable future. Europe is committed to the USA and not only vis-à-vis Russia. For according to the will of the USA, this front is also to be positioned vis-à-vis the People's Republic of China. This fatal development is critically connected to the fact that Europe has not succeeded in creating an independent and autonomous position for itself in world politics. The "Old Continent" has become dependent on the USA, Russia and China, from which there seems to be no escape. Europe has become the pawn of the superpowers. The battle for Europe has begun.