by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 18, 2022 | fake loops, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Podcasts, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking
In a 90 minute interview with Ari Whitten, we explore philosophy of science and public health, focusing on how industry can undermine the quality and public trust in sincere science. I reference the @justsaysinmice twitter handle that addresses the harms of...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 30, 2022 | Fake Freedoms, fake loops, Perverse Incentives, Priorities, Side-effects, silence, Syndemics, Systems thinking, the real, Unpleasant Design
We can’t afford to grieve in our contemporary culture. There is literally no space, time, or network to allow for us to process the wrongs done, to atone the righteous rage we feel at a degraded earth and the waste of our own lives. Without the capacity to grieve, how...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | 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
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 22, 2021 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Conflicts of Interest, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, glyphosate, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry, Verschlimmbessern
My recently published paper in Environment & Society “Surveying the Chemical Anthropocene: Chemical Imaginaries and the Politics of Defining Toxicity,” draws on Sheila Jasanoff’s notion of “sociotechnical imaginaries” to describe how...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 15, 2019 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biophilia, Climate Change, Communication, Dante Alighieri — 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.', death, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Fake Freedoms, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Oil Barons, parasitism, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, Syndemics, Systems thinking
I recently read – from afar – the sorry state of the UNFCCC #COP25 in Madrid. According to 350.org, instead of barring fossil fuel companies from engineering the COP, the security guards at the UNFCCC forcibly removed hundred of activists and scientists...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 6, 2019 | beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Communication, cruelty, Dante Alighieri — 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.', death, Decolonization, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Oil Barons, parasitism, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, the real, transportation
Who is fueling the Alice in Wonderland media world which slowly is infecting and deceiving people around the world, spreading the ignorance virus? Let’s take the way that Trump wanted to roll back the Obama-era federal fuel emission standards as an example. While...
