Huge forest and bush fires, gigantic downpours, dying forests, floods, drought disasters, and tornadoes - almost daily reports of disasters in newspapers and on news tickers. A number of irreversible processes of destruction and self- destruction in nature are unfolding and calling survival into question in more and more regions. These processes make it clear that the global environmental catastrophe has begun! Mainly responsible for this development are the international supermonopolies which, in their pursuit of maximum profit, ruthlessly and against better knowledge brush aside the urgently necessary environmental protection and acutely required emergency measures. All those who do not want to perish in the global