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Global health is the path and will deliver global peace

Karl Baumann, April 27, 2025May 10, 2025

We have a dream – a world with all the people, yes, all the people living withing a global healthy and thus sustainable society peacefully together. To make this dream a reality, there are three core concepts important in our view – (1) the skill of all the people for…

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The root cause for trade deficits

Karl Baumann, April 21, 2025April 26, 2025

The major damage from the current “United States of America ” (USA) administration is its distraction from our currently by far greatest (security) threat to humanity – global warming, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity. Based on that and since there is significant noise & irritation, I want to…

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Temperature rise will be exponential

Karl Baumann, April 7, 2025April 13, 2025

Global warming, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity is in our view the by far greatest (security) threat to humanity ever in human history (nuclear weapons certainly have the potential to extinct humanity within seconds, but they are men made and can be fully controlled by men, e.g. cf….

Trump administration acknowledges global warming

Karl Baumann, March 29, 2025March 29, 2025

With the official trip from Mr. Vance et al. to Greenland, the Trump administration most importantly acknowledges global warming. The press conference from Mr. Vance “visiting” Greenland, March 28, 2025 (e.g. Forbes Breaking News) reveals, the Trump administration acts like the Putin administration with the “peaceful” annexation of Krim 2014….

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1.5°C expected in 4.5 years – we need a first global referendum on climate actions now

Karl Baumann, March 24, 2025March 24, 2025

Latest data from “The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)” (https://www.copernicus.eu) and its “C3S Global temperature trend monitor” shows global warming reached 1.38°C in February 2025. Reaching 1.5°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels – the limit agreed under the “Paris Agreement” – is expected by September 2029, within ca. 4.5…

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U.S. tariffs politics shows very strong demand for global tax system

Karl Baumann, March 16, 2025March 24, 2025

We are in great favour of a globalised market without any tariffs and boarders. Global trade is probably one of the greatest developments of humanity. Not only the plurality of products & services, the possibility of global travel, and the gains in supply resilience (e.g. during the COVID-19 pandemics, the…

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Make planet Earth great (again)

Karl Baumann, March 10, 2025May 11, 2025

To start with, our mother planet Earth is great. Everyone can experience that. It just takes a walk out into nature keeping your aesthetics open – seeing the beauty with your eyes, enjoying the sun or rainfall with your skin, “listening to the silence” from nature, tasting the fruits, smelling…

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Current geopolitics fails to deliver on the by far most important & urgent KPI for humanity

Karl Baumann, March 9, 2025March 23, 2025

Global warming, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity is currently by far the most important and most urgent “security threat” to humanity. Global “greenhouse gas” (GHG) emissions is currently by far the most important “key performance indicator” (KPI) for geopolitics in our view. (see the following graph from “Our…

2024 Nobel Prize supports (global) democracy

Karl Baumann, December 10, 2024

The 2024 “Nobel Prize” within Economic Sciences goes to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson: “These contributions are also of practical importance because the large and persistent income gap between the world’s richest and poorest countries has enormous consequences for billions of people living in the world today….

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Wall Street shows very weak global (sustainable) leadership

Karl Baumann, November 9, 2024November 10, 2024

After the “United States of America” (USA) presidential election the “Dow Jones Industrial Average” (Dow) increased ca. 5% within one day (see graph). This is certainly due to many reasons. Nevertheless, within the context of in our view the most pressing topic for human history – global warming, climate change,…

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2024 United States presidential election show very strong demand for global democracy

Karl Baumann, November 6, 2024November 7, 2024

It is the same pattern with the “United States of America” (USA), as it is in Europe. People feel the pressure from a globalised economy and feel the influence from a globalised society. They might not fully understand all the very complex correlations, nevertheless they do feel affected, attacked, targeted,…

UN „World Population Prospects 2024“ report shows significant global science crises

Karl Baumann, July 15, 2024July 16, 2024

We very much acknowledge the work from United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) on the latest „World Population Prospects 2024“ (World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results) report (population.un.org), one of the flag ship reports from UN DESA and certainly one of the crucial reports to…

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2024 UNDP survey shows very high potential for global direct democratic vote on climate actions

Karl Baumann, June 23, 2024March 24, 2025

“80 percent of people globally want stronger climate action by governments.” UN Development Programme survey, June 20, 2024 (https://peoplesclimate.vote) Over 73.000 people speaking 87 different languages across 77 countries were asked 15 questions on climate change for the “Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024” survey. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the…

2024 G7 summit shows weak global governance to actually mitigate global warming et al.

Karl Baumann, June 23, 2024March 24, 2025

Reading the “Apulia G7 Leaders’ Communiqué” from the “2024 G7 summit” held in Borgo Egnazia (Fasano) in Apulia, Italy, from June 13-15, 2024, might give the impression, the world is heading in some good direction. Yes, we want to acknowledge, there are quite some well chosen approaches. We miss the…

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77th World Health Assembly (WHA77) shows global spirit and the potential for global democracy

Karl Baumann, June 2, 2024June 2, 2024

The “World Health Organization” (WHO) held its 77th World Health Assembly (WHA77) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 27 May till 1 June 2024. The theme of this year’s Health Assembly was “All for Health, Health for All”. The “World Health Assembly” (WHA) is the main decision-making body of the WHO with…

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2024 “Russian Federation” presidential “election” shows very strong demand for global democracy

Karl Baumann, March 19, 2024March 24, 2025

Democracy is pretty much the opposite of ideology. The concept “democracy” wants to best fulfil needs, wishes, and desires from all the people. So democracy wants to provide health, peace, and prosperity. Linear concepts like “freedom” or “nationalism”, in whatever context (Russian freedom or nationalism, Ukraine freedom or nationalism, European…

60th “Munich Security Conference” shows very strong demand for global democracy

Karl Baumann, February 19, 2024March 23, 2024

We have a dream: “One day without any war on our planet Earth.” Historically speaking, humanity most likely never gained that, currently we are very far away from that (e.g. Global Conflict Tracker, Council on Foreign Relations, cfr.org). “The average level of global peacefulness deteriorated for the 9th consecutive year.”…

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29th UN “Conference of the Parties” on climate change (COP29) can be start for global democracy

Karl Baumann, February 13, 2024April 13, 2025

The UN “Conference of the Parties” (COP) on Climate Change in 2024 will be the same formate as last COPs. We want this to be improved. “COP 29 incoming Presidency are committed to ensuring a transparent and inclusive process in the lead-up to COP 29 to be convened in Baku,…

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2023 “Global State of Democracy Indices” (GSoD) shows demand for global democracy

Karl Baumann, January 10, 2024March 23, 2024

Globally, nationalism is on the rise and democracy is under pressure and within decline in several countries (see graph from “The Global State of Democracy 2023. The New Checks and Balances“, p. 18, Global State of Democracy Initiative, 2023, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, https://www.idea.int). The reasons for…

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28th UN “Conference of the Parties” on climate change (COP28) shows demand for global democracy

Karl Baumann, December 19, 2023June 2, 2024

We want to acknowledge the effort done by the United Nations (UN) and we also want to acknowledge the outcomes of the “COP28 – UN Climate Change Conference” (https://unfccc.int/cop28/outcomes), especially the “first global stocktake” in reference to the so called “Paris Agreement” (https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement), entered into force on 4 November 2016…

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75th anniversary of Human Rights shows potential for “Global Constitution”

Karl Baumann, December 10, 2023March 23, 2024

Today we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (1948/12/10). The development of human rights was “drafted by people from different legal, religious, and cultural backgrounds from all over the world” (Human Rights Watch, https://www.hrw.org, 2023/12/10). The “Human Rights” can be the role model with the…

91st INTERPOL General Assembly shows clear demand for strong global security system

Karl Baumann, November 27, 2023January 6, 2024

“We are currently facing an epidemic of transnational organized crime which is undermining societies, communities and businesses. It is now so significant that it has become a global security emergency. This is a global problem and must be tackled by more – not less – international cooperation, information sharing and…

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G20 summit 2023 shows weak global governance to actually mitigate global warming

Karl Baumann, September 12, 2023March 23, 2024

We very much welcome the G20 summit 2023 declaration on “Strengthening Global Health and Implementing One Health Approach”, the understanding of “Culture as a Transformative Driver of SDGs”, the steps in direction of a “globally fair, sustainable and modern international tax system” and the integration of the African Union (AU)…

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