by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Dec 20, 2017 | death, Discursive Gap, folly, Industrial Epidemics, normalization, Oil Barons, pollution, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
I recently published an article in Berkeley’s newspaper, Berkeleyside, about the incessant overhead air traffic, and how this likely is causing significant public health effects. Here’s the evidence base: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25332277...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am very pleased to announce that the Eighteenth Annual Biosemiotics Gathering will take place at the University of California Berkeley’s elegant International House grand auditorium June 17-20, 2018. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Terry Deacon and...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 4, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Publications, Uncategorized
The 2016 Oxford University Press book The Greening of Everyday Life: Challenging Practices, Imagining Possibilities I contributed a chapter to on “Bicycling and the Politics of Recognition,” has received a kind review from environmental philosopher Robert...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 29, 2017 | Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry, Uncategorized
In an ongoing effort to compile the corruption of science and politics by short-sighted, manipulative industries, I am beginning to list the sites that document industrial epidemics. Enjoy! CLIMATE http://climateinvestigations.org http://www.climatefiles.com MONSANTO...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Because we currently live in a throw-away economy, with devastating impacts on our psychology, social relationships, health, and environment, evolving away from this paradigm is paramount for our survival. The invention of cheap plastics in the 1950s seemed like a...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 2, 2017 | beyond liberalism, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, normalization, Oil Barons, parasitism, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
Cognitive dissonance is a phenomena common amongst human beings who want to have their cake and eat it too. It comes from a willing ignorance to repress and suppress the world’s inconvenient truths and hold onto the frame (or fairytale) one inhabits (or chooses)...
