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Hans-Peter Plag
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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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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 ...
An Indigenous man holding a protest banner in a crowd. Several Indigenous protestors in a crowded hallway. Closeup of a protestor at COP30. Marching Indigenous People in the main hallway of COP30.
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
"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...
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
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
While I was having lunch in a great spot, they were having lunch in a great spot!
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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bberwyn.bsky.social
Hey, @nature.com, regarding your COP30 editorial, it might be worth acknowledging that countries with a "legitimate concern" about a transition away from fossil fuels have had 30 years. You make it sound like that's somehow a NEW thing.
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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bryangodbe.bsky.social
COP 30 Climate Plan...
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Hopefully, 19 countries in #G20 will respond to the greatest #bully of all times by not coming to the Summit "in the Great City of #Miami, Florida", a city that is great because 67% of the population is Hispanic, and only 14% is White. Thank you, #SouthAfrica ...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
South Africa hits back at ‘punitive’ Trump move to bar it from G20 meeting in Florida
Diplomatic row worsens after US president says member state will not be invited to 2026 summit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
When a judge, who approves an arrest warrant for a person who allegedly committed genocide is declared a terrorist by the president of an "allegedly" democratic country, something is fundamentally wrong!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones
Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’, says Guardian columnis...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Does the law of negligence apply here? Or does this amount to 1.3m manslaughter?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds
Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Trump and Mr Bone Saw! This is the #USA Government elected by the American people! Who would have thought 10 years ago, when the US had an outstanding president respected in all countries, that the country claiming to be the best could sink that deep that fast?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump and Mr Bone Saw stage love-in as Saudi’s $1tn wipes the bloody slate clean
In the Oval Office the US president dismissed the murder of the columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying: ‘things happen’
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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A powerful call echoed by over 80 countries rang through the halls of #COP30 during an afternoon press conference today, demanding a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels!
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
"The climate needs it, the people demand it." Jasper Inventor, deputy programme director at Greenpeace International! Life on Earth needs it!
@greenpeace.org #COP30 #climateemergency

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 80 countries at Cop30 join call for roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out
Countries from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Pacific and Europe plead for transition to be central outcome of talks
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Wealthy countries benefiting from increasing emissions are like a man standing at a river and seeing someone drowning, screaming for help: The man turns away to add more water to the river. #SIDS, do not hope for help! I's not coming! Help yourself.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is survival’: Jamaica leads calls from vulnerable nations at Cop30
Countries including Mauritius and Cuba reiterate life-or-death nature of cutting emissions, calling it ‘a moral duty’
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Time to listen to those who are "on the other side" of the #climateemergency, the side where a still on-going party of a suicidal extraction and consumption #economy in the wealthy countries is causing great suffering in a new reality of an intolerable climate.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t breathe’ – This is climate breakdown
As summer went on, the temperature climbed and climbed. Every day became harder. This is Neha’s story
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Yes, ending the use of #coal, #oil, and #gas, the use of all #fossilfuels is essential for ensuring a future for #humanity. Why is this not understood by those in power, who should care about our common future? #COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Can Cop30 begin the process of phasing out fossil fuels?
Ending use of coal, oil and gas is essential in tackling climate crisis – but even talking about it is controversial
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Our Exceptionalism is in our ability to reverse what life accomplished over 500 million years: burying CO2 in the ground and enriching the atmosphere with O2. We are able to get Earth back to the hothouse it once was, very good for dinosaurs, but not for mammals!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman
Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Yes, #climatejustice requires #justice in reparations. And first of all, it requires the #humanright to migrate when #climatechange has made the current home unlivable. And the right to find a new home, as well as support for this #migration.
#climateemergency

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies
Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Thinking of $170,000 per minute for #SaudiArabia selling #fossilfuels and linking this to 1 person dying per minute because of #climateemergency impacts, we ask "What is the murder capital of the world? Or at least the government whose willful negligence kills?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
These "dark forces", @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, can only do that because we don't create our systems to disseminate the knowledge we have to help us avoid a ghastly future. Join us on www.place4us.net where we aim to liberate knowledge for all!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
We know who controls #information in the #USA: #oligarchs and #billionaires. They don't like #COP30 because they cause #climateemergency, #oceanwarming and stronger, more people-killing #hurricanes. They don't want the people in the USA to know!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Major US broadcasters sit out Cop30 climate talks: ‘They’re missing a lot’
Figures show none of US ‘big four’ – CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox – appear to have sent teams to cover summit in Belém
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
This is why we developed Place4Us www.place4us.net as a virtual companion for a global citizen movement that can break up the power-information relationship strangulating #democracy. If we don't build our own information infrastructure nothing will change.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back
The Guardian has no billionaire or corporate owner: funded by readers, our fierce independence is guaranteed
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
38.1bn tonnes of fossil CO2 is projected to be emitted this year! And this is more than last year. And last year's emissions were more than in the year before. #Emissions are increasing, stupid! And so are the #climateemergency #oceanwarming #hurricane. #COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
“The ever-expanding fossil fuel industry is endangering billions of lives and irreversibly altering the climate system." The full lifecycle of fossil fuels destroys irreplaceable natural ecosystems and undermines human rights. #fossilfuels #humanrights

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Fossil fuel infrastructure puts rights of 2 billion people at risk
520 million children live within 5km of fossil fuel infrastructure.
www.amnesty.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
“The fossil fuel industry, under the guise of economic growth, have served greed and profits without red lines, violated rights with near-complete impunity, and destroyed the atmosphere, biosphere and oceans,” said Agnès Callamard of Amnesty International. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Fundamentally changing the CO2 cycle in the planetary system comes with the high costs of mass #extinction! Doing more of that is not helping. Doing less of emitting might still help.
#COP30 #climateemergency #climatechange
ontheprecipice.bsky.social Hans-Peter Plag @ontheprecipice.bsky.social · 26d
Maybe the first step is to stop putting more #CO2 and other Greenhouse gases into the #atmosphere? Stop this greatest #geoengineering experiment #humanity is conducting!
Earth has always put CO2 into the atmosphere and taken out, but never at the rate we manged!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
ontheprecipice.bsky.social
Maybe the first step is to stop putting more #CO2 and other Greenhouse gases into the #atmosphere? Stop this greatest #geoengineering experiment #humanity is conducting!
Earth has always put CO2 into the atmosphere and taken out, but never at the rate we manged!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM