Place4Us
@place4us.bsky.social
Place4Us is a place for you and your community to interact with a slowly emerging global citizen movement for a better today and tomorrow. On Place4Us we aim to find ways to tackle the Human and Planetary Existential Emergency. Come to place4us.net ...
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?
Why is #Trump not in this picture, @theguardian.com ? Are you at The Guardian afraid of being suited by Trump?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club
Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Why is #Trump not in this picture, @theguardian.com ? Are you at The Guardian afraid of being suited by Trump?
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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This is a must-read. And a must-act-on.
We should admit that widely-mandated #climate optimism has been actively harmful to the needful acknowledgement of reality – and to the active collective self-protection that we now desperately need to get serious about making happen. Read more 👇
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
January 11, 2026 at 12:14 PM
This is a must-read. And a must-act-on.
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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...
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The obscenity of disaster capitalism
Get paid for making the weapons to destroy a country, and get paid again for rebuilding it
Makes me want to punch someone - hard
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Get paid for making the weapons to destroy a country, and get paid again for rebuilding it
Makes me want to punch someone - hard
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The obscenity of disaster capitalism
Get paid for making the weapons to destroy a country, and get paid again for rebuilding it
Makes me want to punch someone - hard
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Get paid for making the weapons to destroy a country, and get paid again for rebuilding it
Makes me want to punch someone - hard
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"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...
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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
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!
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"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/...
@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
"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/...
@greenpeace.org #COP30 #climateemergency
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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...
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
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...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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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/...
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
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/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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IN NEW ISSUE: Not Just "Sinking Islands"! @virginiadebiasio.bsky.social discusses the importance of climate adaptation for the population of #Kiribati & defends a community-based approach to adaptation in #SIDS - buff.ly/jnp3dGc
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #climatechange
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #climatechange
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
IN NEW ISSUE: Not Just "Sinking Islands"! @virginiadebiasio.bsky.social discusses the importance of climate adaptation for the population of #Kiribati & defends a community-based approach to adaptation in #SIDS - buff.ly/jnp3dGc
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #climatechange
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #climatechange
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Bernd Hamm made very clear for who our government is: the global ruling class of a few hundred billionaires, served by the CEO of the multi-national companies. The (not our) governments make sure the CEO have the rules they need to make sure the wealth flows to the ruling class.
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Bernd Hamm made very clear for who our government is: the global ruling class of a few hundred billionaires, served by the CEO of the multi-national companies. The (not our) governments make sure the CEO have the rules they need to make sure the wealth flows to the ruling class.
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Alien Intelligence #AI is a great tool for #disinformation #misinformation. #Grokipedia is a misnomer. I would think a #creep would call it #Creepipedia. We need to protect our #knowledge & build #truth platforms like #Place4Us together with @place4us.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk launches encyclopedia ‘fact-checked’ by AI and aligning with rightwing views
Grokipedia’s entries hew closely to conservative talking points, with some journalists already saying it contains inaccurate information
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Alien Intelligence #AI is a great tool for #disinformation #misinformation. #Grokipedia is a misnomer. I would think a #creep would call it #Creepipedia. We need to protect our #knowledge & build #truth platforms like #Place4Us together with @place4us.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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"As an Indigenous man, I know very well the pain of the forest, because its body is an extension of ours." Why don't we all listen to those like Wajã Xipai who are still connected with this incredibly unique #Earth? Thank you @jonathan-watts.bsky.social #COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen?
A young journalist reflects on the UN leader’s responses, and hopes his messages – about human violence and an increasingly hostile planet – resonated before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"As an Indigenous man, I know very well the pain of the forest, because its body is an extension of ours." Why don't we all listen to those like Wajã Xipai who are still connected with this incredibly unique #Earth? Thank you @jonathan-watts.bsky.social #COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Unfortunately, there is no #ocean #heatwave. The ocean is being heated by an #Earth #Energy Imbalance now 800 TeraWatt, 40 times the total energy used by humanity. The heating will continue, many #species will go functionally #extinct. #climateemergency #coral
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Two crucial Florida coral species left ‘functionally extinct’ by ocean heatwave
Climate crisis drives near-total collapse of staghorn and elkhorn corals that formed backbone to state’s reefs
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Unfortunately, there is no #ocean #heatwave. The ocean is being heated by an #Earth #Energy Imbalance now 800 TeraWatt, 40 times the total energy used by humanity. The heating will continue, many #species will go functionally #extinct. #climateemergency #coral
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This week the WMO confirmed the 2024 atmospheric CO2 level and annual rise data. You may have seen headlines about it setting new records and concern about the planet’s ability to absorb our emissions. Here is why we should be extremely worried 👇🧵
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This week the WMO confirmed the 2024 atmospheric CO2 level and annual rise data. You may have seen headlines about it setting new records and concern about the planet’s ability to absorb our emissions. Here is why we should be extremely worried 👇🧵
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We're showing up at #NoKings to defend science and democracy. Share your #EvidenceBasedOutrage and help #SaveScienceSaveLives with these free downloadable signs. (Pro tip: For best results, print your sign on heavy paper at your local copy shop!)
FREE Downloadable March Signs
Heading to a rally or event where you want to show your support for the free practice and application of science—and its positive potential to help humanity? Download our NEW "Evidence-Based Outrage" slogan sign with Union of Concerned Scientists logo. For best results, print on heavy paper at your local copy store We
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October 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We're showing up at #NoKings to defend science and democracy. Share your #EvidenceBasedOutrage and help #SaveScienceSaveLives with these free downloadable signs. (Pro tip: For best results, print your sign on heavy paper at your local copy shop!)
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What role has the idea of progress played in building civilization and its gifts, as well as dispossessing, enslaving, or even eradicating billions of people and animals over the last 5,000 years?
This interview with @popnbalance.bsky.social gives a good overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2X...
This interview with @popnbalance.bsky.social gives a good overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2X...
Progress: Humanity’s Worst Idea
YouTube video by OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance
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October 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
What role has the idea of progress played in building civilization and its gifts, as well as dispossessing, enslaving, or even eradicating billions of people and animals over the last 5,000 years?
This interview with @popnbalance.bsky.social gives a good overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2X...
This interview with @popnbalance.bsky.social gives a good overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2X...
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This morning's GFS shows the Northern Hemisphere more than 1.64°C over the 1981-2010 baseline on October 23, which is more than 2.2°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.
The Climate 8-ball is smoking.
www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
The Climate 8-ball is smoking.
www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
October 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This morning's GFS shows the Northern Hemisphere more than 1.64°C over the 1981-2010 baseline on October 23, which is more than 2.2°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.
The Climate 8-ball is smoking.
www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
The Climate 8-ball is smoking.
www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
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🌍 Adaptation vs. Mitigation? It’s not either/or.
#WRIClimate found 50%+ of 300+ #adaptation projects also cut emissions through climate-smart farming, greener cities & resilient renewables.
Both can happen at once — explore 6 strategies 👉 bit.ly/4m4H3JD
#WRIClimate found 50%+ of 300+ #adaptation projects also cut emissions through climate-smart farming, greener cities & resilient renewables.
Both can happen at once — explore 6 strategies 👉 bit.ly/4m4H3JD
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🌍 Adaptation vs. Mitigation? It’s not either/or.
#WRIClimate found 50%+ of 300+ #adaptation projects also cut emissions through climate-smart farming, greener cities & resilient renewables.
Both can happen at once — explore 6 strategies 👉 bit.ly/4m4H3JD
#WRIClimate found 50%+ of 300+ #adaptation projects also cut emissions through climate-smart farming, greener cities & resilient renewables.
Both can happen at once — explore 6 strategies 👉 bit.ly/4m4H3JD
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Those who want to help those starving in #gaza are being mistreated by those who caused the starving. I have deep respect for #gretathunberg and those with her in this effort, and no respect for those who prevent help for starving people!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Those who want to help those starving in #gaza are being mistreated by those who caused the starving. I have deep respect for #gretathunberg and those with her in this effort, and no respect for those who prevent help for starving people!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Utter criminal incompetence
Why did they even build a desalination plant? They are expensive to run and we don't need them (yet anyway 😊)
Typical of Thames water to spend on this nonsense instead of reducing leaks and stopping pumping raw sewage into our rivers
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Why did they even build a desalination plant? They are expensive to run and we don't need them (yet anyway 😊)
Typical of Thames water to spend on this nonsense instead of reducing leaks and stopping pumping raw sewage into our rivers
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
£500m Thames Water desalination plant has provided just seven days’ water over 15 years
Plant in Beckton has run only five times and has been beset by multiple problems since it was built
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Utter criminal incompetence
Why did they even build a desalination plant? They are expensive to run and we don't need them (yet anyway 😊)
Typical of Thames water to spend on this nonsense instead of reducing leaks and stopping pumping raw sewage into our rivers
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Why did they even build a desalination plant? They are expensive to run and we don't need them (yet anyway 😊)
Typical of Thames water to spend on this nonsense instead of reducing leaks and stopping pumping raw sewage into our rivers
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Thank you, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, for your insight.
#ecocide needs to be a crime against humanity.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#ecocide needs to be a crime against humanity.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Thank you, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, for your insight.
#ecocide needs to be a crime against humanity.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#ecocide needs to be a crime against humanity.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Of the various causes of collapse the one most overlooked, and potentially the most harmful, is delusion - the capacity of humans to believe whatever they wish, regardless of the facts. A species that does not believe it is in danger is very unlikely to avoid it."
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'Died of a delusion': the fate of modern civilisation?
The collapse of modern human civilisation is inevitable.
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September 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"Of the various causes of collapse the one most overlooked, and potentially the most harmful, is delusion - the capacity of humans to believe whatever they wish, regardless of the facts. A species that does not believe it is in danger is very unlikely to avoid it."
cribb.substack.com/p/died-of-a-...
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