by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 24, 2025 | animals, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Climate Change, conservation, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Political Theory, Naturverlassenheit, parasitism, philosophy of science, Semiocide
Introduction: The Paradox of Fear and Death in Contemporary Japan In 2023, Japan witnessed an unprecedented 219 bear attacks, resulting in six human fatalities. The media response was immediate and visceral—front-page stories, emergency government meetings, and calls...
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 | May 9, 2025 | Artificial Everything, eating animals, meat, Naturverlassenheit, normalization, pollution, Semiocide, Side-effects
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave its blessing to something that sounds like it was lifted from a dystopian novel: genetically modified pigs, designed with CRISPR technology to resist a devastating viral disease, are one step closer to your dinner...
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...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 24, 2024 | Decolonization, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Normal is Over, permaculture, philosophy of science, Priorities, Semiocide, Semiotics, Systems thinking, Talks
2 May 2024 talk at Utrecht University I’m excited to be giving a talk at Utrecht University’s Ecocide Interdisciplinarity Series Talks for Justice. Part of their Conceptualizing Ecocide project, they get that if we wish to actually create a solid Path to...
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...
