Ernst Bromeis

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rüffer&rub visionär / Every Drop Counts (eBook, ePUB)

Swimming for the Right to Water

Beschreibung

"The world - and especially the water forming the base of its beauty and of life on it - is miraculously beautiful when viewed from space. When seen on earth, close-up, this "blue miracle" is revealed to be so very vulnerable. And this look at water shows what our global civilization has wrought with life and water on it, how unequally this civilization has divided them into the fortunate and unfortunate, the rich and the poor, overabundance and drought, nature preserved and nature desecrated, ownership of water rights and lack of such, and freely-usable waterways and those owned by individuals. These inequalities require of the world their being remedied - and not tomorrow or the day after, but, rather, right now, today. My dedication to protecting water expresses my philosophy towards life, which is that each living being has a right to it and therefore to water. This maxim may sound banal. It is anything but that. And assuring this right is so very difficult. Making appeals is easy. Turning them into effective action is the true challenge in a world that is an ocean of global needs and of individual interests. This book represents my answer to the question 'what we as individuals can do to improve the world's caring for its precious resource of water."

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Autor

Ernst Bromeis was born in 1968 in Ardez, a town in Switzerland's Lower Engadine region. After completing a degree in education, he taught at an elementary school in Zuoz. Ernst followed that up by studying athletics at the University of Basel. He then specialized in the training high-performance athletes at Swiss Olympic. Ernst next worked as a communications specialist and as a manager of athletic and other events for the resort of Lenzerheide. A further position was as a journalist at SRG/Radio Rumantsch. At the end of 2007, Ernst Bromeis founded "Das Blaue Wunder", and made this "blue miracle" his life's calling. This entails his going on marathon swimming expeditions, and his serving as an "ambassador for water". These endeavors form the subjects of the talks that he gives in schools and universities and at companies. Ernst also helped launch the UN's Water Weeks in Scuol, Switzerland. His dedication to saving our water encompasses its role in tourism and his working with "Solidarit'eau Suisse", a water solidarity project of Switzerland's DEZA agency for international development. Ernst Bromeis is married to Cornelia Camichel-Bromeis, a theologian. They have three children. The family lives in Davos Platz, Switzerland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: rüffer & rub Sachbuchverlag
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783906304212
• Artikelnr.: 47693786