by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 27, 2026 | Climate Change, collapsology, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Systems thinking
Why the “energy transition” so often means business as usual In More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz offers one of the most devastating empirical critiques of the idea that modern societies are undergoing a genuine energy transition. His example is not...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 19, 2026 | CDoH, chemicals, Climate Change, collapsology, Communication, Discursive Gap, e-waste, Energy, Environmental Justice, Extended Producer Responsibility, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Priorities, Systems thinking
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the Global Environment Outlook, Seventh Edition (GEO-7) — the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the global environment to date. This landmark report synthesizes the latest environmental...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Meditations on ChatGHB Back in my BurningMan days, I had a lot of friends who used the drug GHB, gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a central nervous system depressant with limited medical uses, which as a party drug can lead to loss of inhibition, impaired judgment, memory gaps,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 7, 2026 | agnotology, beyond liberalism, collapsology, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, fake loops, folly, Normal is Over, Oil Barons, parasitism, Verschlimmbessern
Democracy is not “under threat.” It is being abandoned. The U.S. is sliding toward dictatorship.Europe is following closely behind.Much of the “liberal West” is choosing appeasement over resistance. This is not a sudden crisis. It is the predictable outcome of a...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 5, 2026 | CDoH, Industrial Epidemics
Planetary health is not being undermined by abstract “human activity” but by specific, organized commercial strategies that systematically convert profit-seeking into ecological breakdown. The commercial determinants of health name this upstream layer of causation:...