by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 26, 2025 | Biomimicry, Biophilia, Climate Change, collapsology, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Greenwashing, permaculture, philosophy of science, Systems thinking
The images of these November 2025 floods in South East Asia show so starkly the total waste of whatever reasoning allows us to continue global warming. The economy isn’t getting better. People aren’t getting healthier or happier. We are trashing our planet...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 24, 2025 | animals, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Climate Change, conservation, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Political Theory, Naturverlassenheit, parasitism, philosophy of science, Semiocide
Introduction: The Paradox of Fear and Death in Contemporary Japan In 2023, Japan witnessed an unprecedented 219 bear attacks, resulting in six human fatalities. The media response was immediate and visceral—front-page stories, emergency government meetings, and calls...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 19, 2025 | beyond liberalism, Climate Change, collapsology, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, folly, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Semiocide, Systems thinking
Picture this: You run a business that makes you €64.7 billion over sixty years. Your operations cause over 1,600 earthquakes that damage almost 100,000 homes and traumatize an entire region. When the government finally shuts you down to protect citizens and the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Inner Development Goals emerge from a peculiarly Nordic scandal: Tomas Björkman, who edited Lene Rachel Andersen’s book The Nordic Secret, has spent years traveling the world promoting her work as if it were his own, leveraging her scholarship on...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 17, 2025 | Artificial Everything, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, Climate Change, collapsology, deus ex machina, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Verschlimmbessern
Predatory ambitions: “the tactical setting of ambitious-looking but unattainable climate targets” — Ketan Joshi The Greenwashing Habitability Zone, as described by Ketan Joshi (in the first figure below), shows the usual suspects of discourses of...