1. Introduction Depending on job skills and experience, employees may have a strong leverage on policies of employers. During an existing job contract, committment (eg dependence on salary, housing, job of partner, school for children) of an employee maybe rather high, giving him or her little influence. However, during an application process while committment is…
After the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in December 2019, attention has been shifted to previous research and publications on risks of pandemics to global health. Although critics argue that the pandemic was unpredictable and anyone saying so suffers from hindsight bias, I would like to argue that the risks of this “low risk-high impact”…
DE Multi-Milliardär Bill Gates gab am 2020-04-12 in der öffentlich-rechtlichen Nachrichtensendung “Tagesthemen” ein 9-minütiges (!) Interview [1], in dem er seine Sicht auf die Covid-19 Pandemie und die Verfügbarkeit von Impfstoffen darlegte. Bill Gates hat durch seine langjährige Tätigkeit im Bereich Globale Gesundheit und seinen engen Austausch mit Experten wahrscheinlich eine informierte Meinung, welche von…
Disclaimer: I am not a professional manufacturer of face shields to protect from virus infections. No warranties! Use at your own risk! In the following blog, I describe how to make a face shield (visor) to protect from droplet infections from COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 using house-hold materials. Although building a face shield comes pretty close to making…
In my view politicians avoided recommending face masks because there was a lack of them. If they would have recommended face masks, and people would have realized that, there would have been an outcry and accusations of failure of the political system. In addition, the often cited “lack of evidence” of protection from infections for…
In this blog, I would like to argue that current standards of tele-conferences can and should be further improved and tele-conferences may help to reduce job-related travels and carbon emissions. I am still surprised to see how low the quality of tele-conferences in many companies and organizations is, considering the huge progress is made in…
I am sharing a letter from 350.org which describes how to continue climate activism while applying social distancing to contain the spread of the Covid-19 disease. I have applied minor changes to the letter for readability and privacy. Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. März 2020 um 13:35 Uhr Von: “Matilda Borgstrom – 350.org” <350@350.org> An: “Wilmar Igl” <xxx.xxxl[AT]xxx.xx> Betreff: This…
1. About I have created the following protest banner demanding to decarbonize the pharma industry now. The banner contains the logo of the Paris Climate Agreement, the required reduction rate for carbon emission intensity of the global pharma industry following the Paris Climate Agreement according to Belkhir and Elmeligi (2019), and a statement on the…
Im folgenden vergleiche ich die Positionen von Multi-Milliardär Bill Gates und die Kernaussagen von Artikeln, die vor kurzem in DER SPIEGEL und im SPIEGEL MAGAZIN erschienen sind, um auffällige Übereinstimmungen herauszuarbeiten. Ness (2020) argumentiert, dass durch Spenden der Bill und Melinda Gates Foundation an Der Spiegel zum Aufbau einer Redaktion “Globale Gesellschaft” die redaktionelle Unabhängigkeit…
The Scientific American ranked Artifical Intelligence in 2015 among the “ten big advances that will improve life, transform computing and maybe even save the planet”, which inspired me to think about the application of AI to stabilize the Earth’s climate. The investment company BLACKROCK, which is arguably the world’s largest asset manager [3], runs the…
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