Frank Huisingh
frankhuisingh.bsky.social
Frank Huisingh
@frankhuisingh.bsky.social
Started Fossil Free Football, where we kick polluting sponsors out of football. Here for the takes and the jokes.
Yes ;-)
December 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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While Fossil Free Football realises that Mr Infantino is preoccupied with his own prize-giving ceremony, it is sure that his Qatari private jet will be on hand to collect the Football Climate Impact Prize he so richly deserves! 👨‍✈️

Congratulations, Mr President! 👑
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Infantino has handed it the 2034 World Cup, platformed its pro-oil advertising and routinely stood in support of its leaders and their Trump administration allies 🤝
Inside Man: How FIFA Guided the World Cup to Saudi Arabia (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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His impact is typified by his championing of Saudi Arabia. Internationally isolated after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, its FIFA facilitated football takeover has helped it rebuild soft power and re-normalise its 'brand' 💪

It has put this leverage to use in blocking international climate action ❌
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The FIFA President once held up a “green card for the planet” and promised to halve its emissions by 2030 🌍

But years of cosying up to Putin, the rulers of Qatar, MBS and President Trump have ensured the world’s favourite sport is a plaything for oil funded authoritarians 🛢️
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by Frank Huisingh
Infantino is also overseeing the most polluting World Cup in history 😬

It will require more air travel than ever, as attendees fly across an entire continent to more matches, in more host cities, than any previous edition ✈
FIFA World Cup 2026 in United States, Canada and Mexico the 'most polluting ever', claims report
Next year's Fifa World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico is set to be
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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His crowning achievement is the sale of the world’s biggest platform, the FIFA World Cup, to the world’s biggest polluter, Saudi state oil company Aramco 😳

Despite player backlash, Aramco will be promoting fossil fuels to billions next summer! 📺
Women footballers urge Fifa to end Saudi sponsorship deal with Aramco
More than 100 professional women's footballers sign an open letter urging Fifa to end a sponsorship deal with Saudi oil giant Aramco.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ik ben dus gewoon van mening dat het een standaardzin in zo’n artikel moet zijn, dat de oorzaken altijd kort worden uitgelegd.
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Nou ja herhaling is vrij normaal, ik vind het gewoon handig om dat ook in de context onderaan te lezen.,
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hoe komt dat zeewater, uit de laatste zin, zo warm? Ik mis echt uitleg over de klimaatcrisis in dit stuk.
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Raar om de rol van de klimaatcrisis hierin niet uit te leggen..
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM