Upcoming Talk at Oxford

by | 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...

New Article: Norwegian state-corporate climate obstruction and ecological harms in Brazil

by | 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...

New article out on UNDO.org on ‘The dangers of Big Tobacco’s faux-pharmaceutical rebrand’

by | 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...

Talk: 9 April, 2025 on Exporting Suffering: The Flower Industry at Home and Abroad

by | 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...

EuEpigenetics

by | Apr 4, 2024 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Decolonization, duh, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Public Health, Systems thinking, Verschlimmbessern

I get an email from Aporia Magazine titled “You’re probably a eugenicist” — provocatively suggesting that we all favor good genes, and that we, all-knowing moderns, imbued with science, know what good genes are. I take umbrage with Aporia for...