Hans-Peter Plag: Trouble in the Beehive!

Trouble in the Beehive: We live in a beehive. The Global Ruling Class (GRC) of a few wealthy families is in the center. The CEOs of the largest companies make sure wealth keeps flowing to them. The governments are not for us, they make sure the CEOs have the rules they need to make wealth flow to ...

Published on 2025/04/20/17/54/23 by Hans-Peter Plag

Hans-Peter Plag: Jumping Frogs and Boiling People

A Flawed Myth

There is a myth based on experiments in the 1840ties that a frog would react to rapid changes but not to a slowly warming water. The myth contented that a frog thrown in boiling water would jump out, but a frog sitting in water that slowly is heated up would not jump out ...

Published on 2025/03/22/11/30/53 by Hans-Peter Plag

Hans-Peter Plag: Anthropocentric versus non-anthropocentric view on Earth

A few years ago, I started to seriously look at Earth through the eyes of an alien ecologists traveling through space to find planets that are suffering, diagnose the cause or planetary sickness, and designing therapies to restore the planetary health. Coming to Earth, I came up with the picture ...

Published on 2023/12/14/09/42/ by Hans-Peter Plag

Hans-Peter Plag: Safeguarding the Planetary Life-Support Systems Requires Maintaining the Purpose of These Systems

The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID). Since Stafford Beer formulated this foundational statement, a lot of effort has been on designing societal systems that do what their intended purpose is. To a far lesser extent, the statement has been used to determine the purpose of the physiol ...

Published on 2023/10/13/18/51/59 by Hans-Peter Plag