by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Every time I encounter people afraid of scientists being ‘alarmist’ I see fear masquerading as 1001 justification for negligence, false moral superiority, and license to check out and deflect responsibility. If you are an archer and trying to hit the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 19, 2023 | Climate Change, Communication, death, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, Environmental Political Theory, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, Fragmentation, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Priorities, Semiotics, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design, Verschlimmbessern
“Burnout is nature’s way of telling you, you’ve been going through the motions your soul has departed; you’re a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.”?...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Searching for oracles to take the responsibility of judgment off our shoulders is as old as humankind itself. Whether it is the ergot-infused Oracle at Delphi, reading the tea leaves, the stars and their astrologics, the Tarot, ayahuasca and a tribe’s totem...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Energy poverty is a consequence of our unjust energy transition. Last winter, when gas prices spiked 4x their ‘normal’ previous levels, those who had poorly insulated houses and were still using gas paid a premium. Many of these people in low quality...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 23, 2023 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Communication, cruelty, death, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, duh, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Naturverlassenheit, Normal is Over, pollution, Public Health, Syndemics, Verschlimmbessern
I feel like this as an environmental professional: expected to educate why we need to make sustainable change to all those convinced that everything’s fine. One must imagine Sisyphus happy… (Camus) I cannot imagine how it is for climate and environmental...
