by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 24, 2026 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Discursive Gap, parasitism, Priorities, SolarPunk, Syndemics
Curious what people are actually doing to help. Rather than just talking about it. Discourse is great. It lets off steam and does a doozy for moral accounting: we feel moral for talking about it, reducing the urge to actually take action. But without action, there is...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Erwin van Tuijl and I have just published a new article in the journal Politics and Governance on solidarity in just heating transitions, and why it isn’t enough on its own. Heating is the neglected sibling of energy transition governance. It’s also where...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 26, 2026 | agnotology, agroecology, Aphorisms, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Communication, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, exploitation, folly, Unpleasant Design
We need the default to be good. By which I mean intentional. Nature. If it’s made with AI, it must say “Made with AI,” so that we don’t have to constantly be checking everywhere and everyone doesn’t have to obsessively say, “I made...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 24, 2026 | agnotology
I recently came across this explainer on LinkedIn which imagines that we can still succeed by bringing more data points into the wrong category. This is the classic data vs capta move of epistemological arrogance, or what is better known as agnotology. It’s not...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 2, 2026 | CDoH, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, Public Health, Publications, Systems thinking
Happy to announce a new article from Luc Hagenaars, Grant Ennis, and myself in JAMA Health Forum on the “Harms of Framing Obesity as a Disease of Individuals.” GLP-1s have been heralded as wonder drugs, finally providing relief from obesogenic environments...
