by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 29, 2019 | Bureaucratic quixotic, e-waste, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, folly, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry
About a decade ago, the “American Vaping Association” railed against RJReynolds (later RAI, now part of British American Tobacco (BAT)) for attempting to persuade the FDA to “ban the sale of open-system e-cigarettes, including all component...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 18, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, glyphosate, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Semiocide, Semiotics, Syndemics, Systems thinking
The original article, published here, takes a rather pro-industry “we’ll engineer our way out of this” approach. Rather than observing a fundamental problem in putting artificial inputs unsustainably into agriculture, the article plays to the upbeat...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 22, 2019 | Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, Perverse Incentives, Publications, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry, Wolves in sheep's clothing
My colleagues Manali Vora, Jesse Elias, and Pam Ling and I at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco just Financial Conflicts of Interest and Stance on Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Systematic Review. (Also...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 8, 2019 | Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Talks
Advertising and Agency: An ethological account of how social infrastructure compromises or sustains our autonomy May 16, 2019 12:00 – 13:00 Bayle Building, J5, Erasmus University RotterdamHumans like to think of ourselves as autonomous agents, freely making our...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 1, 2019 | agroecology, Conferences, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, folly, glyphosate, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Plants, pollution, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Talks
My Erasmus University Rotterdam colleague Alessandra Arcuri and I are organizing a day-long workshop on the most used pesticide in the world: glyphosate. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, Monsanto’s flagship herbicide, has been linked with cancer by...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 20, 2019 | beyond idealism, Climate Change, conservation, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, Energy, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, normalization, object-oriented-ontology, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking, the real, Wolves in sheep's clothing
I was perusing Kickstarter when I happened upon a solution to a problem that I didn’t know was that big of a deal: spices going bad. As it turns out, it’s not that big of a deal, it’s what could easily be classified as a “first world...
