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 | 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 | Oct 5, 2025 | Climate Change, Environmental Political Theory, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, philosophy of science, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry
At the Smith School Sustainable Leadership Programme, Oxford What Climate Litigation can learn from the US Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement Widely seen as a possible model for pending and future climate litigation, the 1998 United States Tobacco Master Settlement...
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...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 27, 2025 | Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, Priorities, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Tobacco Industry
This follows up on my article published last year: Hendlin YH, Han EL, Ling PM. Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry’s endgame. BMJ Global Health. 2024;9(2):e013866. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013866 discussing how “To revamp their image, Big Tobacco relies...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 22, 2025 | agroecology, beyond liberalism, chemicals, Climate Change, Communication, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fragmentation, Greenwashing, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Plants, Public Health, Semiocide, Side-effects, Syndemics, Talks
Everyone loves flowers. They brighten our day. They remind us of the beauty of life, and they are ephemeral, a memento mori of sorts to reflect upon our own mortality. But in the past half-century, the presence of flowers has moved from local to global markets, from...
