by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 27, 2022 | Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Conflicts of Interest, death, deus ex machina, duh, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, Fragmentation, Industrial Epidemics, normalization, Perverse Incentives, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design
As annoying as I find Russell Brand on occasion, in this case he makes a good point. The marriage of corporate and state power – technology and the monopoly on violence – which Mussolini called ‘fascism’ and Lewis Mumford called the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | May 7, 2022 | Climate Change, Conflicts of Interest, Decolonization, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Verschlimmbessern
There’s a new Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism, which is a new term to me. It seems it should be commonplace. For it articulates the madness which we have experienced in the 20th and 21st centuries, descending on us like a dark, inarticulate cloud. The delay...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 29, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Conflicts of Interest, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, parasitism, philosophy of science
So, I came across this brilliant comedian on Facebook the other day, and Facebook, in all of their infinite wisdom censored it from me, according to their factcheckers (who have done absolutely nothing to curb climate change, by the way). Toni Bologna claims Vanguard...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 3, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest, e-waste, Fake Freedoms, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, parasitism, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Tobacco Industry, Verschlimmbessern, Wolves in sheep's clothing
One of my old colleagues, a lawyer at UCSF once said that the tobacco industry finds loopholes in the law and exploits them until someone closes them. And then moves onto the next one. Our new Open Access paper in Tobacco Control discusses some of these problems....
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 17, 2021 | agroecology, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Conflicts of Interest, death, Decolonization, deus ex machina, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, glyphosate, Greenwashing, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Talks
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 22, 2021 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Conflicts of Interest, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, glyphosate, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry, Verschlimmbessern
My recently published paper in Environment & Society “Surveying the Chemical Anthropocene: Chemical Imaginaries and the Politics of Defining Toxicity,” draws on Sheila Jasanoff’s notion of “sociotechnical imaginaries” to describe how...
