This is the new Magazine section of the English website of the ZEIS Institute for Ecological Education. At first, some translated articles from the German ZEIS Magazin will be published here. Later, there will be numerous articles on ecological topics with local relevance to developments in the United States, for example.
Magazine > Collective psychology > Interview
„Factory farming is a deadly poison for the spirit of humanity.“
According to the author Steffen Pichler, industrial factory farming in recent decades has caused an older collective psychosis in humanity to escalate, one that began with the dawn of agriculture. Starting with the leading industrialised nations, this is a complex root cause of consumerism, intellectual dumbing down and the accelerated destruction of the natural environment. Ultimately, this would lead to a complete inability to survive, just as in a person with severe psychosis if the illness is not treated and therefore escalates. > Continue …
Magazine > Ecology > Economy
How the Monsanto sale revealed the end of an evolutionary dead end
Looking back, the events surrounding the sale of the US corporation Monsanto to the German Bayer Group show that there must be an awareness among the leadership of global intensive agriculture that their industry has reached the end of an evolutionary dead end. After all, if ‘high-performance breeding’ and agricultural genetic engineering were viable businesses for the future, then the sale of a diversified market leader against the backdrop of sharply rising demand and declining yields would have been one of the most foolish transactions in economic history. > Continue …
Magazine > Evolution > Crocodile
The real reason for the unprecedented stability of the life form ‘crocodile’
If all the physical characteristics and behaviour of crocodiles are analysed objectively, it becomes clear that they are oriented towards disturbing the free unfolding of other living creatures as little as possible. Even the best engineer could not design a predator at the top of the food chain, living on the border between water and land, that would disturb its environment less and kill its prey more quickly and surprisingly. Moreover, there are even many effects with direct positive ecological impacts. The selective orientation towards ‘ecological harmony’ is the mechanical reason for the steady convergent evolution of the largely identical life form ‘crocodile’ with numerous often only distantly related species for over 250 million years More on these research findings: www.saltwatercrocodile.info) . > Continue …