Henk Nijsingh
@henknijsingh.bsky.social
Painter, bricoleur. I read philosophy and other books. I garden. Practicing ethics (a mixture of Agamben, Prozorov, Nietzsche, Irigaray, Oosterling and Deleuze(&Guattari). Practicing buddhism.
Pinned
Giftige ideologie van VVD (en de ontaarding in ideologie sowiezo) en apathie creëren als controlemechanisme, plus de slavenopstand in de moraal iedere zaterdag in het stadscentrum ('het slijk'), de haat voor wetenschap, dat verklaart heel veel.
Giftige ideologie van VVD (en de ontaarding in ideologie sowiezo) en apathie creëren als controlemechanisme, plus de slavenopstand in de moraal iedere zaterdag in het stadscentrum ('het slijk'), de haat voor wetenschap, dat verklaart heel veel.
December 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Giftige ideologie van VVD (en de ontaarding in ideologie sowiezo) en apathie creëren als controlemechanisme, plus de slavenopstand in de moraal iedere zaterdag in het stadscentrum ('het slijk'), de haat voor wetenschap, dat verklaart heel veel.
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🤚🌊 Hands off our water!
@ec.europa.eu plans to revise the Water Framework Directive after mining industry's request. This puts our drinking water, rivers, wetlands, and wildlife at risk.
Europe must protect its waters, not sell them for short-term industrial gain 🛑
#HandsOffNature #RESourceEU
@ec.europa.eu plans to revise the Water Framework Directive after mining industry's request. This puts our drinking water, rivers, wetlands, and wildlife at risk.
Europe must protect its waters, not sell them for short-term industrial gain 🛑
#HandsOffNature #RESourceEU
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🤚🌊 Hands off our water!
@ec.europa.eu plans to revise the Water Framework Directive after mining industry's request. This puts our drinking water, rivers, wetlands, and wildlife at risk.
Europe must protect its waters, not sell them for short-term industrial gain 🛑
#HandsOffNature #RESourceEU
@ec.europa.eu plans to revise the Water Framework Directive after mining industry's request. This puts our drinking water, rivers, wetlands, and wildlife at risk.
Europe must protect its waters, not sell them for short-term industrial gain 🛑
#HandsOffNature #RESourceEU
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"De toenemende droogte zou grote gevolgen hebben voor de Nederlandse en Europese landbouw, waarschuwen de onderzoekers. Er zouden minder opbrengsten van akkers zijn. Ook zouden er grote uitdagingen in de waterhuishouding in Nederland ontstaan."
www.nu.nl/klimaat/6378...
www.nu.nl/klimaat/6378...
Europa krijgt te maken met extreme droogte als de Golfstroom instort
De verzwakking of zelfs instorting van de Golfstroom in de Atlantische Oceaan: het is iets waar wetenschappers zich al langer zorgen over maken. Als dat gebeurt, wordt het in Europa niet alleen veel k...
www.nu.nl
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"De toenemende droogte zou grote gevolgen hebben voor de Nederlandse en Europese landbouw, waarschuwen de onderzoekers. Er zouden minder opbrengsten van akkers zijn. Ook zouden er grote uitdagingen in de waterhuishouding in Nederland ontstaan."
www.nu.nl/klimaat/6378...
www.nu.nl/klimaat/6378...
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Dat (trek)vogels de oorzaak zijn van vogelgriep is een 'vals frame', stelt directeur-bestuurder @vogelbeschermingnl.bsky.social Karsten Schipperheijn. "Zolang we naar wilde trekvogels blijven wijzen als belangrijkste oorzaak, gaan we het probleem nooit oplossen."
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Opinie | Wilde vogels zijn het slachtoffer, niet de boeman
Vogelgriep: Je hoort vaak dat wilde (trek)vogels de aanstichter zijn van grote vogelgriepuitbraken. Een verkeerd frame, vindt Karsten Schipperheijn: het probleem begint bij de pluimveeindustrie.
www.nrc.nl
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Dat (trek)vogels de oorzaak zijn van vogelgriep is een 'vals frame', stelt directeur-bestuurder @vogelbeschermingnl.bsky.social Karsten Schipperheijn. "Zolang we naar wilde trekvogels blijven wijzen als belangrijkste oorzaak, gaan we het probleem nooit oplossen."
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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No place to hide from #PFAS pollution, not even the deep-sea
Scientists analysed 127 whales and dolphins & have sounded the alarm over these toxic #foreverchemicals
The full impact on wildlife remains unknown, but PFAS could disrupt immune and reproductive systems
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Scientists analysed 127 whales and dolphins & have sounded the alarm over these toxic #foreverchemicals
The full impact on wildlife remains unknown, but PFAS could disrupt immune and reproductive systems
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
No place to hide from #PFAS pollution, not even the deep-sea
Scientists analysed 127 whales and dolphins & have sounded the alarm over these toxic #foreverchemicals
The full impact on wildlife remains unknown, but PFAS could disrupt immune and reproductive systems
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Scientists analysed 127 whales and dolphins & have sounded the alarm over these toxic #foreverchemicals
The full impact on wildlife remains unknown, but PFAS could disrupt immune and reproductive systems
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
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Dat Wiersma pfas-lekkende pesticiden blijft toestaan, terwijl het grondwater bijna overal al verontreinigd blijkt, staat haaks op artikel 21 van de Grondwet: De zorg van de overheid is gericht op de bewoonbaarheid van het land en de bescherming en verbetering van het leefmilieu.
Het grondwater is vervuild: overal zit pfas of andere vervuiling
Het grondwater is vervuild: overal zit pfas of andere vervuiling
Het grondwater in Nederland is bijna overal vervuild met pfas en andere verontreinigende stoffen die van nature niet in het milieu voorkomen. Bij slechts 4 procent van de meetpunten was het water vorig jaar echt schoon.
www.trouw.nl
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Dat Wiersma pfas-lekkende pesticiden blijft toestaan, terwijl het grondwater bijna overal al verontreinigd blijkt, staat haaks op artikel 21 van de Grondwet: De zorg van de overheid is gericht op de bewoonbaarheid van het land en de bescherming en verbetering van het leefmilieu.
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🚨 The EU watchdog has spoken: @ec.europa.eu broke its own rules with its rushed handling of the #Omnibus I and 2024 #CAP reform, rolling back key environmental protections without:
🔎 Impact assessment or public consultation
🤐 Engaging all stakeholders
🌡️ Considering EU climate obligations
🔎 Impact assessment or public consultation
🤐 Engaging all stakeholders
🌡️ Considering EU climate obligations
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨 The EU watchdog has spoken: @ec.europa.eu broke its own rules with its rushed handling of the #Omnibus I and 2024 #CAP reform, rolling back key environmental protections without:
🔎 Impact assessment or public consultation
🤐 Engaging all stakeholders
🌡️ Considering EU climate obligations
🔎 Impact assessment or public consultation
🤐 Engaging all stakeholders
🌡️ Considering EU climate obligations
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Meanwhile, some good #climate news from 2050.
It was fun doing this with @darkmatterlabs.org and @berggruen.org - a little chastened hope. #COP30
It was fun doing this with @darkmatterlabs.org and @berggruen.org - a little chastened hope. #COP30
Amazon Tipping Point Postponed • Planetary Compendium
This speculative future shows how transnational Indigenous leadership could forge eco-democratic infrastructure to delay the Amazon tipping point.
governtheplanet.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Meanwhile, some good #climate news from 2050.
It was fun doing this with @darkmatterlabs.org and @berggruen.org - a little chastened hope. #COP30
It was fun doing this with @darkmatterlabs.org and @berggruen.org - a little chastened hope. #COP30
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This year’s global climate conference shone a light on a major tension: governments are attempting to respond to a planetary emergency while operating inside a global financial architecture that’s designed for extraction, not ecological stability or justice. #COP30
https://bit.ly/48akKxc
https://bit.ly/48akKxc
Belém and Beyond: Why Saving the Amazon Requires Transforming Global Finance - The Understory - Rainforest Action Network
COP30 is unfolding in the Amazon for the first time. The question is no longer whether this COP can “save” the Amazon -- but whether the financial and political order are capable of doing so.
www.ran.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This year’s global climate conference shone a light on a major tension: governments are attempting to respond to a planetary emergency while operating inside a global financial architecture that’s designed for extraction, not ecological stability or justice. #COP30
https://bit.ly/48akKxc
https://bit.ly/48akKxc
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This year at #COP30, global leaders have introduced two initiatives: the Baku to Belém Roadmap and the Tropical Forests Forever Facility.
The problem? These initiatives do nothing about the TRILLIONS of dollars being poured into industries actively destroying our environment.
https://bit.ly/4poVGJY
The problem? These initiatives do nothing about the TRILLIONS of dollars being poured into industries actively destroying our environment.
https://bit.ly/4poVGJY
At COP30, policymakers drip water onto a wildfire
Nations pledge to fund the future, but not stop destructive finance
substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This year at #COP30, global leaders have introduced two initiatives: the Baku to Belém Roadmap and the Tropical Forests Forever Facility.
The problem? These initiatives do nothing about the TRILLIONS of dollars being poured into industries actively destroying our environment.
https://bit.ly/4poVGJY
The problem? These initiatives do nothing about the TRILLIONS of dollars being poured into industries actively destroying our environment.
https://bit.ly/4poVGJY
Cri de coeur. Trying to network. Please read and share if you agree. @greens-efa.eu @europeangreens.eu @baseickhout.bsky.social @dolfjansen.bsky.social @marckonijn.bsky.social @myrthehilkens.bsky.social @roosvonk.bsky.social @dickvanhoffen.bsky.social @frietema.bsky.social @anthonyburke.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Cri de coeur. Trying to network. Please read and share if you agree. @greens-efa.eu @europeangreens.eu @baseickhout.bsky.social @dolfjansen.bsky.social @marckonijn.bsky.social @myrthehilkens.bsky.social @roosvonk.bsky.social @dickvanhoffen.bsky.social @frietema.bsky.social @anthonyburke.bsky.social
Met de verkrachting van de Aarde voert rechts het Christendom naar zijn laatste conclusie, terwijl de figuur van de zondaar effectief op links wordt geprojecteerd, links dat de Aarde poogt te beschermen.
Een zondaar zijn is een winnaars-strategie voor rechts en de rijken als omkering van waarden na het Christendom. Links moet echter nog steeds boeten.
En privacy wordt niet beschermd, maar tot biecht gemaakt.
En privacy wordt niet beschermd, maar tot biecht gemaakt.
Waarom is het belangrijk om helder te krijgen wat Wijers wel of niet gezegd heeft en hoe dat in de krant gekomen is?
Omdat júist dit soort momenten grote impact kunnen hebben in verkiezingstijd en formatietijd.
Alle woorden worden op een goudschaaltje gewogen of met een mestkar ondergespoten.
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Omdat júist dit soort momenten grote impact kunnen hebben in verkiezingstijd en formatietijd.
Alle woorden worden op een goudschaaltje gewogen of met een mestkar ondergespoten.
>>
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Met de verkrachting van de Aarde voert rechts het Christendom naar zijn laatste conclusie, terwijl de figuur van de zondaar effectief op links wordt geprojecteerd, links dat de Aarde poogt te beschermen.
Een zondaar zijn is een winnaars-strategie voor rechts en de rijken als omkering van waarden na het Christendom. Links moet echter nog steeds boeten.
En privacy wordt niet beschermd, maar tot biecht gemaakt.
En privacy wordt niet beschermd, maar tot biecht gemaakt.
Waarom is het belangrijk om helder te krijgen wat Wijers wel of niet gezegd heeft en hoe dat in de krant gekomen is?
Omdat júist dit soort momenten grote impact kunnen hebben in verkiezingstijd en formatietijd.
Alle woorden worden op een goudschaaltje gewogen of met een mestkar ondergespoten.
>>
Omdat júist dit soort momenten grote impact kunnen hebben in verkiezingstijd en formatietijd.
Alle woorden worden op een goudschaaltje gewogen of met een mestkar ondergespoten.
>>
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Een zondaar zijn is een winnaars-strategie voor rechts en de rijken als omkering van waarden na het Christendom. Links moet echter nog steeds boeten.
En privacy wordt niet beschermd, maar tot biecht gemaakt.
En privacy wordt niet beschermd, maar tot biecht gemaakt.
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The Tropical Forests Forever Facility promises large-scale finance for forest protection. But this initiative could fall short if regulators don't move to limit financing towards forest-destroying industries.
Banks provided $429 BILLION to industries driving deforestation.
https://bit.ly/47CaBuc
Banks provided $429 BILLION to industries driving deforestation.
https://bit.ly/47CaBuc
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility promises large-scale finance for forest protection. But this initiative could fall short if regulators don't move to limit financing towards forest-destroying industries.
Banks provided $429 BILLION to industries driving deforestation.
https://bit.ly/47CaBuc
Banks provided $429 BILLION to industries driving deforestation.
https://bit.ly/47CaBuc
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Is Christian Democrat Manfred Weber (@eppgroup.bsky.social) ready to work with the far right to weaken existing rules that protect children and nature?
That is the question he has to answer this Thursday.
Send him an email now and tell him: Don't do it, Manfred!
➡️ greens.eu/dear-manfred
That is the question he has to answer this Thursday.
Send him an email now and tell him: Don't do it, Manfred!
➡️ greens.eu/dear-manfred
Don't do it, Manfred!
Send him an email now and tell him to not give in to the far right.
greens.eu
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Is Christian Democrat Manfred Weber (@eppgroup.bsky.social) ready to work with the far right to weaken existing rules that protect children and nature?
That is the question he has to answer this Thursday.
Send him an email now and tell him: Don't do it, Manfred!
➡️ greens.eu/dear-manfred
That is the question he has to answer this Thursday.
Send him an email now and tell him: Don't do it, Manfred!
➡️ greens.eu/dear-manfred
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OPINION: COP30 needs to be transformative.
The world must stop seeing climate adaptation as a cost to bear but as an investment that strengthens economies and builds healthier, more secure communities.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/clim...
The world must stop seeing climate adaptation as a cost to bear but as an investment that strengthens economies and builds healthier, more secure communities.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/clim...
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
OPINION: COP30 needs to be transformative.
The world must stop seeing climate adaptation as a cost to bear but as an investment that strengthens economies and builds healthier, more secure communities.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/clim...
The world must stop seeing climate adaptation as a cost to bear but as an investment that strengthens economies and builds healthier, more secure communities.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/clim...
My review of a book titled 'The Ecology Politic' written by Burke and Fishel. I've added a screenshot showing the final paragraphs
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My review of a book titled 'The Ecology Politic' written by Burke and Fishel. I've added a screenshot showing the final paragraphs
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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COP30 kicks off in Belém! 🌎
From pledges to practice: why COP30 could mark a turning point towards justice, reciprocity and regeneration
Our team is on the ground working to connect research with policy and practice
Our hopes for COP30➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/belem-c...
From pledges to practice: why COP30 could mark a turning point towards justice, reciprocity and regeneration
Our team is on the ground working to connect research with policy and practice
Our hopes for COP30➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/belem-c...
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
COP30 kicks off in Belém! 🌎
From pledges to practice: why COP30 could mark a turning point towards justice, reciprocity and regeneration
Our team is on the ground working to connect research with policy and practice
Our hopes for COP30➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/belem-c...
From pledges to practice: why COP30 could mark a turning point towards justice, reciprocity and regeneration
Our team is on the ground working to connect research with policy and practice
Our hopes for COP30➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/belem-c...
How do I care the COP doesn't spark a sense of doom in me, but a a sense of hope? Not following it?
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
How do I care the COP doesn't spark a sense of doom in me, but a a sense of hope? Not following it?
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“The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion: The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.”
Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com
Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
www.thenation.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion: The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.”
Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com
Via @amywestervelt.bsky.social in @thenation.com
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Toename prostaat- en testikelkanker en mannelijke onvruchtbaarheid, met bewijs gekoppelt aan blootstelling aan schadelijke chemicaliën zoals ftalaten, PFAS, pesticiden en microplastics. Zelfs alarmerend vóór de conceptie, geassocieerd met aandoeningen bij zonen. www.env-health.org/new-report-c...
New report: Chemical pollution driving men’s health crisis | Health and Environment Alliance
A new report commissioned by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) warns that chemical pollution is fuelling a growing men’s health crisis in Europe. Rates of prostate and testicular cancer, as w...
www.env-health.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Toename prostaat- en testikelkanker en mannelijke onvruchtbaarheid, met bewijs gekoppelt aan blootstelling aan schadelijke chemicaliën zoals ftalaten, PFAS, pesticiden en microplastics. Zelfs alarmerend vóór de conceptie, geassocieerd met aandoeningen bij zonen. www.env-health.org/new-report-c...
@anthonyburke.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social Extra motivated now to continue to read your book 'The Ecology Politic' with Esposito's 'Vitam Instituere' about institution, instituting, life and the imagination and an aphorism by Nietzsche (from Dawn). Also Karen Bakker's book 'Gaia's Web'. 🤓📚🌅
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
@anthonyburke.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social Extra motivated now to continue to read your book 'The Ecology Politic' with Esposito's 'Vitam Instituere' about institution, instituting, life and the imagination and an aphorism by Nietzsche (from Dawn). Also Karen Bakker's book 'Gaia's Web'. 🤓📚🌅
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The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was an initiative to shift financing away from fossil fuels – a key priority given the nearly $8 TRILLION that global banks poured into fossil fuels since 2016.
This year, banks have been stepping away from the NZBA. #DefundClimateChaos
https://bit.ly/4hoY4NP
This year, banks have been stepping away from the NZBA. #DefundClimateChaos
https://bit.ly/4hoY4NP
Banking alliance aimed at limiting fossil fuel investments collapses
A coalition formed to align the international banking sector's investments with global climate goals has disbanded nearly four years after it was launched. Set up in 2021, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was a U.N.-sponsored initiative to shift ban...
news.mongabay.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was an initiative to shift financing away from fossil fuels – a key priority given the nearly $8 TRILLION that global banks poured into fossil fuels since 2016.
This year, banks have been stepping away from the NZBA. #DefundClimateChaos
https://bit.ly/4hoY4NP
This year, banks have been stepping away from the NZBA. #DefundClimateChaos
https://bit.ly/4hoY4NP
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"We are fighting to survive while watching the oyster beds get covered in silt, the crabs and shrimp choke, and fisherfolk and our families get nosebleeds nightly from the pollution" –Ray Mallet
The Gulf Coast is suffocating from methane gas infrastructure. #NoLNG! #StopCP2
https://bit.ly/4orlq7E
The Gulf Coast is suffocating from methane gas infrastructure. #NoLNG! #StopCP2
https://bit.ly/4orlq7E
Guest column: Dredge spill in Cameron Parish highlights worries with LNG megaprojects
LNG projects promise economic benefits, but when things happen, it's fishers that pay the price, guest columnists Ray Mallet and Alyssa Portaro argue.
www.nola.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"We are fighting to survive while watching the oyster beds get covered in silt, the crabs and shrimp choke, and fisherfolk and our families get nosebleeds nightly from the pollution" –Ray Mallet
The Gulf Coast is suffocating from methane gas infrastructure. #NoLNG! #StopCP2
https://bit.ly/4orlq7E
The Gulf Coast is suffocating from methane gas infrastructure. #NoLNG! #StopCP2
https://bit.ly/4orlq7E
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🤥 The EU Commission drops animal welfare from its 2026 agenda - despite promises to act.
84% of Europeans want better treatment for farmed animals. 1.4 million called for an end to cages.
We need change - now 🐖🌍💧
#EndTheCageAge #AnimalWelfare
📷: Selene Magnolia Gatti / We Animals
84% of Europeans want better treatment for farmed animals. 1.4 million called for an end to cages.
We need change - now 🐖🌍💧
#EndTheCageAge #AnimalWelfare
📷: Selene Magnolia Gatti / We Animals
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🤥 The EU Commission drops animal welfare from its 2026 agenda - despite promises to act.
84% of Europeans want better treatment for farmed animals. 1.4 million called for an end to cages.
We need change - now 🐖🌍💧
#EndTheCageAge #AnimalWelfare
📷: Selene Magnolia Gatti / We Animals
84% of Europeans want better treatment for farmed animals. 1.4 million called for an end to cages.
We need change - now 🐖🌍💧
#EndTheCageAge #AnimalWelfare
📷: Selene Magnolia Gatti / We Animals