Chemical Colonialism: Environmental justice and industrial epidemics

by | Mar 22, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, glyphosate, Greenwashing, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, Syndemics, Systems thinking

Chemical Colonialism: Environmental justice and industrial epidemics I’ve got a new blog in the Environment & Society blog loosely connected to my 2021 paper in their journal. It builds on my interest in environmental history, particularly having read Fabian...

Climate Change (Finally) Enters the Therapy Room (for the Rich, who can afford Therapy)

by | Feb 9, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Decolonization, deep ecology, duh, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, normalization, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Uncategorized, Verschlimmbessern

(Background NYTimes Article for Reference) As I’ve always said, the NYT is 5-10 years behind the times (their feedback loop doesn’t extend beyond New Yorkers making 5M+). This has been a subject psychologists have been dealing with for at least 20 years in the west,...

Fractal Instrumentalism

by | Jan 16, 2022 | Aphorisms, beyond idealism, Biomimicry, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, duh, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, folly, Fragmentation, Interspecies Communication, Naturverlassenheit, Uncategorized

When we farm fish, do we think that, perhaps, we’re being farmed as well? If not? Why not? When we bind life to fulfilling one function: delivering to us what we think we need; do we ponder whether our life also is bound to what someone else desires? When we...

International Institute of Social Sciences Development Research Seminar

by | Dec 17, 2021 | agroecology, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Conflicts of Interest, death, Decolonization, deus ex machina, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, glyphosate, Greenwashing, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Talks

Bread and Roses

by | Jul 5, 2020 | Decolonization, exploitation, Music

I’m a jazz fan and player, and during the corona quarantine I started reaching beyond my normal playlist, and found the amazing work of Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah after stumbling across his stunning NPR Tiny Desk Concert. (If you don’t know this...