by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 9, 2024 | beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Conflicts of Interest, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, Environmental Justice, fake loops, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Industry Documents, Oil Barons, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Syndemics, Systems thinking, the real, Verschlimmbessern, Wolves in sheep's clothing
A new exposé by Rebecca John at DeSmog Blog shows that as early as 1953 industry was up to capturing popular outrage and dishing out placation. To mollify disgust of Angelinos at the mounting smog in Los Angeles, industrialists got ahead of the public action curve to...
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...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | 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...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | 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...
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 | Apr 19, 2022 | beyond liberalism, Discursive Gap, duh, e-waste, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, object-oriented-ontology, philosophy of science, pollution, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design
smartphone tombstones Is programming premature product lifespans a form of corporate crime? This the question that Lieselot Bisschop, Jelle Jaspers, and I address in our new publication in the journal of Crime, Law and Social Change. Planned obsolescence is a core...
