Felix van Hoften🟥
@felixvanhoften.bsky.social
Ecological Economics| Degrowth/Postgrowth | Researcher-lecturer University of Amsterdam & Rotterdam University AS | Author: De golven en de Kaap
“techno-optimist” scientists [engaged in] less civic actions and protests, signed fewer petitions and engaged in less advocacy. .....also less likely to reduce the number of flights they took, cut car usage......." You know who you are - and should be ashamed www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed
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I am so much waiting for the first social metabolism researchers to conform recoupling.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 3w agoThis is actually the first major de-electrification we're seeing in the mid-transition era and I cannot fucking believe my eyes in seeing the core advocates of electrification celebrating and welcoming and encouraging it www.wired.com/story/us-dat...
"If we want to create an economy that works in service of life, we have to understand these forces and work to counter them." - @katyrshields.bsky.social
How Economists Uphold Neoliberalism: Full Walkthrough
YouTube video by Katy Shields
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Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.
Geweldige uitzending van #Lubach over #voedselzekerheid. Eentje die de #BBB niet leuk vindt, maar wel waar is. Kijken! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pttk...
Hebben we genoeg eten in Nederland als er een oorlog uitbreekt? | LUBACH
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Your yearly energy-realist reminder: ''Energy processes on Earth produce heat that must be radiated to space—the only significant cooling channel. No matter what the technology—even allowing hypothetical, un discovered energy resources...1/
"The obvious oafishness of Mars One, which was essentially an interplanetary Fyre Festival, should have been a lesson to publications everywhere ... you should not run a headline saying there will be a colony on Mars by 2025 just because some guy says there will be." defector.com/lets-remembe...
Let's Remember Some Publications That Said We Would Get To Mars By 2026 | Defector
Good science journalism is by its nature suspicious of grand or outlandish claims. Good science journalism does not take press releases at face value, but rather investigates the evidence behind those...
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⚠️ 🌍 ⚠️ We stand with humanity: A scientist statement to confront climate destruction⚠️ 🌍 ⚠️ ✒️ 🙏 If you are an academic or healthcare professional, please consider signing. 🙏✒️ framaforms.org/we-stand-wit...
We stand with humanity: A scientist statement to confront climate destruction | Framaforms.org
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Man this is right here. Even everything it's compared to (smartphones, calculator, printing press) found its use through immediate, organic adoption. GenAI is way more like SUVs, single-use plastics: it had to be pushed, marketed and forced into unavoidability by companies
Kate Jackson@katejackson.bsky.social · 2mo agoNo one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem
Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” turns 30 today. The lyrics were prescient, said frontman Jason Kay: 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 “But I’ll never get the credit for it,” he added.
Met deze hitte vind ik de zomervakantie geen klap meer aan. Naast feit dat we nu in de rook van een bosbrand staan. (Boven de bomengrens was gister nog duidelijk een veld te zien)
Nog steeds worden de problemen op televisie uitgelegd door lobbyisten en boeren. Er zijn meer dan 100.000 vrijwilligers actief in de natuurbescherming. Miljoenen leden, duizenden professionals, honderden onderzoekers. Gi-gan-tisch draagvlak, ook onder boeren. Maar niks nada noppes op #vvdtv.
Sander Turnhout🔻🍉🌳🌱🍄🦟🐈⬛🍓🔥@sanderturnhout.bsky.social · 2mo agoSommige soorten zijn zo zeldzaam geworden dat ze meteen uitsterven als mensen - vaak vrijwilligers - ophouden ervoor te zorgen. In een land waar 85% van de #biodiversiteit al verdwenen is, is dat een krankzinnige situatie. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
www.theguardian.com/membership/2... "The greatest question we confront, possibly the greatest question humanity has ever confronted, is whether we can hit the social tipping points before we hit the environmental tipping points." from the great @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel
There are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen
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Fascinerend dat de trend om alles aan te grijpen om als individu zo gezond en oud mogelijk te worden, naast de volledige onverschilligheid staat om een leefbare aarde te behouden nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...
Zorgen over longevity-hype: gezond ouder worden begint niet bij een total body scan
Veroudering tegengaan of zelfs jonger worden. In de wetenschap is het een serieus vraagstuk. Maar nu is zo lang en zo gezond mogelijk leven ook een streven geworden van influencers en superrijken.
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Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Huh you can just do that???? Financial Times: "China has launched a global hunt for hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes going back decades as Beijing seeks to fill a deepening fiscal hole by targeting the ultra rich." www.ft.com/content/e179...
China launches global tax hunt going back decades
Fiscal pressure sparks retroactive campaign and tougher controls on future offshore capital flows
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if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon
onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2mo agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
This is the most pure John Oliver bait I've seen in a minute.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3mo agoFacing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
Uitgebreide reactie van @felixvanhoften.bsky.social op een artikel van @simonvanteutem.bsky.social op @decorrespondent.nl, waarin die kritiek heeft op degrowth-ideeën zonder zich erin te verdiepen en gemakzuchtig aanneemt dat we het met 'groene groei' wel redden. www.ontgroei.nl/inspiratie/z...
Zonder breed debat geen inzicht in een duurzame koers | Ontgroei
Dit is een reactie op Simon van Teutems artikel over het Global justice Report en de terugkerende aanval van De Correspondent op degrowth en postgroei en het systematisch negeren van wetenschappelijke...
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De commodificatiewaanzin gaat door. Next stop: de nacht.
Myrthe Hilkens@myrthehilkens.bsky.social · 3mo agoDe mens zou collectief in vergadering moeten zijn over de stelling ‘we hebben wel genoeg kapotgemaakt, wat nu?’ In plaats daarvan gaat de grootheidswaanzin ongehinderd door. Next stop; een spiegel die zonlicht op bestelling levert. nos.nl/artikel/2622...
Nieuw verhaal. Een Nederlander hing de vlag uit omdat er geen azc komt in zijn wijk. En daar werd ik boos om, want het staat voor mij symbool voor wat een klootzakken wij soms zijn. Je schaamt je toch kapot? chrisklomp.nl/met-je-kutvl...
Met je kutvlag - Chris Klomp
Ik moet mij er eigenlijk niet druk om maken, maar doe dat toch. De intense sneuheid van een nieuwsbericht op Omroep West. Te zien is een Nederlander die vergenoegd een vlag ophangt omdat er geen asiel...
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It was us climate scientists. We can geoengineer record heat waves with our space lasers but a trillion tons of carbon pollution from two centuries of fossil fuel burning can't warm the atmosphere
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3mo agoOK, who was it? Come clean.
NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
