Interspecies Prosperity: What it is and why it matters

by | Feb 21, 2020 | agroecology, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biomimicry, Climate Change, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, permaculture, Priorities, Public Health, Syndemics

I have a new blog post over at the Erasmus University Rotterdam initiative I’m a part of, the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity. This interdisciplinary research team from law, business, and philosophy brings together mavericks who work across disciplines, and are...

A semiotic analysis of WSJ article on Bayer’s glyphosate problems

by | 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...