Reflections on EUR’s Roundtable on Academic Freedom and Sustainability

by | Dec 18, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Communication, Conflicts of Interest, Dante Alighieri — 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.', death, Decolonization, deep ecology, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Naturverlassenheit, Normal is Over, normalization, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Systems thinking, University Life

After the 28 November, 2022 occupation of the Sanders Building at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where I work, by OccupyEUR, the students involved in the very nonviolent protest were violently removed by riot police at the Executive Board’s behest. Not the finest...

What do we mean by thinking ‘upstream’? A look at 3 levels

by | Dec 2, 2022 | Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Communication, Conflicts of Interest, Discursive Gap, fake loops, folly, Industrial Epidemics

The Abbott Baby Formula catastrophe is what I’ve been writing about for years: it doesn’t matter if you’re making nuclear missiles or baby food, the industrial model predictably results in industrial epidemics. Here, I will look at how this story is...

Platforming Anti-Eco Trolls is Stochastic Terrorism

by | Apr 8, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Communication, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, eating animals, Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, folly, Industrial Epidemics, meat, Priorities, Systems thinking, the real, Wolves in sheep's clothing

You would think that at Erasmus University, that those trolls wishing the end of the world so that they don’t have to examine their own lives would have the good sense to keep their mouths shut. Unfortunately, that seems to be an unfounded belief. The me-first...

International Federation of Medical Students Association – Netherlands webinar

by | May 6, 2020 | Climate Change, Communication, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Normal is Over, philosophy of science, Public Health, Syndemics, Talks

I’ll be giving a webinar lecture Friday May 8th for the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association – the Netherlands as part of their Youth Delegate Programme masterclass series in collaboration with the Dutch ministry of Health, Welfare and...