by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 12, 2026 | Decolonization, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Plants, Public Health, Publications, Tobacco Industry
New article out in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science exploring the most controversial plant on Earth. The paradox: Tobacco kills 8+ million people yearly through cigarettes. Yet for Indigenous peoples, it’s sacred — a messenger plant, vehicle of prayer,...
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 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 | 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 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 | May 27, 2025 | Bureaucratic quixotic, chemicals, Climate Change, Conflicts of Interest, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, Greenwashing, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Public Health, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
Why is Norway investing in the Amazon Fund when it has gigantic state-owned mining operations destroying the Amazon? This paradox, or contradiction could be dismissed as merely a really expensive greenwashing campaign. Maybe Norway never cared about the Amazon in the...
