Felix van Hoften🟥

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:

Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down

Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace

Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs

Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

It wont. People here are slowly but surely deleting American products and services out of their lives. It wont stop anymore.

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

Even the UN is now acknowledging beyond growth and even post-growth. We are moving.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health - Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure...

CO2 is now affecting the body chemistry of humans

If the current levels of emissions are maintained, we could be facing potentially toxic atmospheric compositions within 50 years

THIS IS STAGGERING AND DEVASTATING NEWS

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If we wouldn’t measure our health using just one indicator, why do we measure economic success that way? — @timjackson.org.uk on BBC Sunday Morning Live

cc #BeyondGDP #PlanetaryBoundaries #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityAshealth #WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics

@keesklomp.bsky.social

This new QJE paper concludes that the macroeconomic costs of climate change are far greater than earlier estimates suggested. It finds that a 1°C rise in global temperatures reduces world GDP by over 20%.

Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevon’s Paradox There has been, in recent decades, a concerted effort to promote energy efficiency as a means to reduce energy consumption. The general thesis is that…

STUDY: Despite conventional wisdom that increases in vehicle fuel efficiency results in decreased gasoline consumption, Jevons’ Paradox holds. For every 1 mile per gallon of increased fuel efficiency there’s an associated 1.2 mile increase in vehicle miles travelled.

Better cars = higher emissions.

So the leader of the free world killed 85 children from his golf resort? You cannot make this shit up.

Boycot absolutely everything that is US made, designed, streamed, exported! Fuck this!

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?

Happy publication alert! 🎉 I have published my first PhD paper in Ecological Economics together with Nicky Pouw and Crelis Rammelt: Bridging beyond GDP and degrowth: Identifying measurements that… |... Happy publication alert! 🎉 I have published my first PhD paper in Ecological Economics together with Nicky Pouw and Crelis Rammelt: Bridging beyond GDP and degrowth: Identifying measurements that ar...

Happy publication alert! 🎉

I have published my first PhD paper in Ecological Economics: Bridging beyond GDP and degrowth: Identifying measurements that are fit for future. 🌍 😃

#ecologicaleconomics #degrowth #postgrowth

www.linkedin.com/posts/felixv...

#eva Ruben Brekelmans noemt het wééér. 'PVV is economisch hartstikke links.' Pertinente klinkklare onzin. Een verzinsel van Rutte.

Ga daar nu eens kritisch op in, journalist!

“We have become a civilization based on work in itself. We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care, or assistance from their communities. It’s as if we’ve collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement.”

From his book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018)

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Every accusation is a confession.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

This sort of thing is why people are understandably not coming to the US. I would be really surprised if the expected international crowds arrive for the World Cup, at least at the US venues. Maybe some diehard fans will come. But the risk is just too great.

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

Wait what
theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

He made a fake ICE deportation tip line. Then a kindergarten teacher called. A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

Choose your own level of anger.

Ja ik begrijp je helemaal. Maar zelfs de topstudenten vertrouwden we niet meer. Het was té gelikt (en dan soms tóch zelf geschreven).

Wij doen het niet meer. Alleen nog in-class essay tentamens. Ja, met de hand.

Juist. Twee jaar geleden ook gedaan. Wederom een vormende ervaring🦋

Why rivers in the far north are turning orange The brightly coloured waterways in the Arctic are a sign that permafrost is thawing, with potentially hazardous consequences

Why rivers in the far north are turning orange

- brightly coloured waterways in the Arctic are a sign that permafrost is thawing, with potentially hazardous consequences

#climatecrisis
www.ft.com/content/2ffa...

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

De beroerde toestand van de natuur is ook slecht nieuws voor de economie, waarschuwen de VN De groei van de wereldeconomie gaat ten koste van de biodiversiteit. Bedrijven kunnen ook zorgen voor herstel van de natuur, maar ze missen kennis en krijgen perverse prikkels. Dat concludeert het VN-...

Groei van de wereldeconomie gaat niet alleen ten koste van de natuur, maar inmiddels is de beroerde toestand van de natuur is ook slecht nieuws voor de economie, waarschuwen de VN

Als bedrijven dat in de gaten krijgen, kan dat een omslagpunt zijn 😇

www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...

Opinie: Nee, rijke mensen worden juist níet gelukkiger van meer geld. En dat is maar goed ook. | Kees Klomp U heeft mij hier op LinkedIn al eerder kritisch zien reageren op het - mijns inziens - uiterst tendentieuze opiniestuk van hoogleraar Johan Graafland over de relatie tussen geld en geluk. Crelis Ram...

Samen met Crelis Rammelt en Felix van Hoften schreef ik een repliek op het stuitend suggestieve opiniestuk van hoogleraar Graafland in Trouw www.linkedin.com/posts/kees-k...

Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

Nanoplastic concentration and potential transport in the Arctic Ocean - npj Emerging Contaminants npj Emerging Contaminants - Nanoplastic concentration and potential transport in the Arctic Ocean

Nanoplastics are widespread across the Arctic Ocean, from coastal waters to the central basin.

Sea ice and atmospheric transport play key roles in storing and redistributing these tiny plastic particles, raising concerns for Arctic ecosystems. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44454-025-00024-y

Human-made materials found in up to half of some UK urban beaches’ coarse sediments Researchers say changes to make-up of coarse sediment are due to waste dumping and climate breakdown

Truly the Anthropocene - what a mess we have made of this planet

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Please, please, please stop the absolute madness concerning 'woke'. Woke is not the enemy.

It's 300 billionaires that are absolutely wrecking the planet and our democracies.