Hans-Peter Plag
@ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Lot's of life experience in science, politics, business, main interest: safeguarding the Earth's life-support system on which the welfare of all of us and others depends. Home: place4us.net
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The view on the spectrum of possible #futures in a world of #climateemergency, #biodiversity loss, #wildlife loss, #pollution. We are heading for the edge, running faster everyday. Why are we not turning around?
February 12, 2026 at 2:41 AM
The view on the spectrum of possible #futures in a world of #climateemergency, #biodiversity loss, #wildlife loss, #pollution. We are heading for the edge, running faster everyday. Why are we not turning around?
Feeling good on Substack with all the Nazis there?
February 12, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Feeling good on Substack with all the Nazis there?
Over the last 50 years, the democratic governments we had again and again have supported the global extinction economy that put Earth on a trajectory to a hothouse. Democrats and Republican alike FAFO. Why would young people vote for them? We need alternatives to the system-supporting parties.
February 12, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Over the last 50 years, the democratic governments we had again and again have supported the global extinction economy that put Earth on a trajectory to a hothouse. Democrats and Republican alike FAFO. Why would young people vote for them? We need alternatives to the system-supporting parties.
Why are we focusing on this child-like psychopath that currently is the front figure of a failed system we call economy? Over more than 50 years, this system has enriched a few billionaires by extracting everything that can be extracted, exploiting all people, and destroying our future!
February 12, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Why are we focusing on this child-like psychopath that currently is the front figure of a failed system we call economy? Over more than 50 years, this system has enriched a few billionaires by extracting everything that can be extracted, exploiting all people, and destroying our future!
Our #governments are failing us! In order to keep the game call #economy going for the #billionaires, they sacrifice our #future. The #Climateemergency requires actions, and the #people need to push for this! Governments won't save us. We need to save ourselves.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Our #governments are failing us! In order to keep the game call #economy going for the #billionaires, they sacrifice our #future. The #Climateemergency requires actions, and the #people need to push for this! Governments won't save us. We need to save ourselves.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World's economic accounting system of #GDP is designed for the #economy to bring immediate benefits to very wealthy #oligarchs - it's not made to work for the #people, the #environment, or our #future. This won't change until the oligarchs are no longer in power.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
World's economic accounting system of #GDP is designed for the #economy to bring immediate benefits to very wealthy #oligarchs - it's not made to work for the #people, the #environment, or our #future. This won't change until the oligarchs are no longer in power.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"I can’t say for sure, but I imagine that my last thought – the last image that passes through my mind before I shut down – will be of the children massacred in Gaza and of the surviving Palestinians who face a terrible future." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel
Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
"I can’t say for sure, but I imagine that my last thought – the last image that passes through my mind before I shut down – will be of the children massacred in Gaza and of the surviving Palestinians who face a terrible future." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Building a society that needs less, not more, energy would also help. In fact, it is a necessity! Using more energy means more entropy. Life requires niches of low entropy! Stop using so much energy to have a comfortable life. It's inherently not sustainable!
February 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Building a society that needs less, not more, energy would also help. In fact, it is a necessity! Using more energy means more entropy. Life requires niches of low entropy! Stop using so much energy to have a comfortable life. It's inherently not sustainable!
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🧪 It's been 10 years since Dorothy Bishop and I published a commentary in Nature about the risks of transparency. doi.org/10.1038/529459a
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February 1, 2026 at 6:12 PM
🧪 It's been 10 years since Dorothy Bishop and I published a commentary in Nature about the risks of transparency. doi.org/10.1038/529459a
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There are many ways to kill #people. One is to keep them away from #vaccination. Maybe this is a secret measure of #Florida #Republicans to reduce #population growths and #overpopulation? Who knows what they think?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Florida Republicans advance bill to weaken vaccine protections for children
But effort fell short of state surgeon general’s promise to end Florida’s immunization mandates altogether
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:23 PM
There are many ways to kill #people. One is to keep them away from #vaccination. Maybe this is a secret measure of #Florida #Republicans to reduce #population growths and #overpopulation? Who knows what they think?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"There is nothing more evil, nothing more horific or important to avoid, than a situation in which the one planet in the universe known to house life is made inhospitable to most life." Samuel Miller McDonald.
January 31, 2026 at 12:55 AM
"There is nothing more evil, nothing more horific or important to avoid, than a situation in which the one planet in the universe known to house life is made inhospitable to most life." Samuel Miller McDonald.
Yes, David, #fascist governments murder their own people. But I would not call this #civilwar, it is a #crime against the #people committed by the #government of the #USA and directed by #POTUS.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war
Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Yes, David, #fascist governments murder their own people. But I would not call this #civilwar, it is a #crime against the #people committed by the #government of the #USA and directed by #POTUS.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Only if we break up the beehive and get rid of the GRC can there be any real change. Wealth tax does not do that. A revolution could do it.
January 17, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Only if we break up the beehive and get rid of the GRC can there be any real change. Wealth tax does not do that. A revolution could do it.
In the global beehive, the Global Ruling Class (GRC) of a few wealthy families is at the center. The CEOs of the largest companies make sure more wealth flows to them. Governments make sure the CEOs have the rules they need to ensure the wealth flows to the GRC. We all create the wealth for them.
January 17, 2026 at 12:24 AM
In the global beehive, the Global Ruling Class (GRC) of a few wealthy families is at the center. The CEOs of the largest companies make sure more wealth flows to them. Governments make sure the CEOs have the rules they need to ensure the wealth flows to the GRC. We all create the wealth for them.
"There is one political problem from which all others follow. ... It is simply stated: the extreme wealth of a small number of people." Yes, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, these people constitute the Global Ruling Class! Like in a beehive, we live and work for them!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:18 AM
"There is one political problem from which all others follow. ... It is simply stated: the extreme wealth of a small number of people." Yes, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, these people constitute the Global Ruling Class! Like in a beehive, we live and work for them!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's important to note that "International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that are contrary to the interests of the United States" are likely to be aligned to the interests of humanity and all required to reach a better future for humanity. The interests of the (current) USA are not ours!
January 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
It's important to note that "International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that are contrary to the interests of the United States" are likely to be aligned to the interests of humanity and all required to reach a better future for humanity. The interests of the (current) USA are not ours!
The #bully is leaving the playground! Hurrah!?
This means for many groups less funding, but it comes with the freedom to discuss #evidence and respect #science. Maybe without the #USA blocking #progress towards a better world, progress can be made faster?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This means for many groups less funding, but it comes with the freedom to discuss #evidence and respect #science. Maybe without the #USA blocking #progress towards a better world, progress can be made faster?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 9, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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We can’t negotiate with physics.
If we don’t choose degrowth in the areas that are destroying the biosphere, collapse will choose it for us - brutally and unfairly.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/degrowt...
If we don’t choose degrowth in the areas that are destroying the biosphere, collapse will choose it for us - brutally and unfairly.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/degrowt...
What's Degrowth? And Why If We Don't Choose It, Collapse Will Choose Us
I’ve been thinking about a word that can make otherwise reasonable people flinch: degrowth. Say it at a dinner party and you can feel the temperature change. Someone will hear “recession”. Someone els...
www.lyrebirddreaming.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
We can’t negotiate with physics.
If we don’t choose degrowth in the areas that are destroying the biosphere, collapse will choose it for us - brutally and unfairly.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/degrowt...
If we don’t choose degrowth in the areas that are destroying the biosphere, collapse will choose it for us - brutally and unfairly.👇🏽
www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/degrowt...
Kant defined the #Enlightenment as “man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity, the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another”. Before Enlightenment, humans looked to God for answers! Now, in the post-Enlightenment, we look to #AI!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Kant defined the #Enlightenment as “man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity, the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another”. Before Enlightenment, humans looked to God for answers! Now, in the post-Enlightenment, we look to #AI!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Hans-Peter Plag
The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a world-leading Earth-science centre in Boulder, Colorado.
go.nature.com/4pjzUqB
go.nature.com/4pjzUqB
Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
go.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a world-leading Earth-science centre in Boulder, Colorado.
go.nature.com/4pjzUqB
go.nature.com/4pjzUqB
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Indigenous People protesting on the last day of COP30 said it ended the same way it started, a lot of promises, but still no real seat at the table ...
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Indigenous People protesting on the last day of COP30 said it ended the same way it started, a lot of promises, but still no real seat at the table ...
"Leaf blowers are the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen." I couldn't agree more! "First of all, they are incredibly noisy." And they cause air #pollution! "It’s a very stupid invention." #leafblower #leafblowers
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Fran Lebowitz: ‘Hiking is the most stupid thing I could ever imagine’
The US author and orator on leaf blowers and Labubus, the weirdest thing she has done for love and struggling with contemporary novels
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"Leaf blowers are the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen." I couldn't agree more! "First of all, they are incredibly noisy." And they cause air #pollution! "It’s a very stupid invention." #leafblower #leafblowers
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
While I was having lunch in a great spot, they were having lunch in a great spot!
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
While I was having lunch in a great spot, they were having lunch in a great spot!