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 | 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 29, 2020 | Bad Advertising, death, Discursive Gap, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, pollution, Public Health, Tobacco Industry
From Erasmus Magazine’s misrepresentative title “Smoke-free campus: responsible decision or counter-productive?” for the very pro smokefree campus comments from students actually interviewed in the article to the irresponsible and juvenile “Free to Smoke Zone”...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 11, 2020 | Communication, death, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, parasitism, philosophy of science, Podcasts, Publications, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
Senior author Eleni Linos, as well as CTCRE director Stan Glantz and myself discuss our recent paper in the BMJ and the paper’s...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 15, 2019 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biophilia, Climate Change, Communication, 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, Discursive Gap, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Fake Freedoms, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Oil Barons, parasitism, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, Syndemics, Systems thinking
I recently read – from afar – the sorry state of the UNFCCC #COP25 in Madrid. According to 350.org, instead of barring fossil fuel companies from engineering the COP, the security guards at the UNFCCC forcibly removed hundred of activists and scientists...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 6, 2019 | beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Communication, cruelty, Dante Alighieri — 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.', death, Decolonization, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, folly, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Oil Barons, parasitism, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, the real, transportation
Who is fueling the Alice in Wonderland media world which slowly is infecting and deceiving people around the world, spreading the ignorance virus? Let’s take the way that Trump wanted to roll back the Obama-era federal fuel emission standards as an example. While...
