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 8, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest, Discursive Gap, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Publications, Side-effects
Working at the CTCRE at UCSF allowed me to meet all sorts of medical practitioners aware of the influence of industry on the health of their patients. One of those people I happened to meet, was Eleni Linos (now at Stanford), a dermatologist who had noticed throughout...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 22, 2020 | Communication, Conferences, Discursive Gap, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Systems thinking
As co-organizer of the Positive state obligations concerning fundamental rights and ‘changing the hearts and minds’ conference at Erasmus University Rotterdam January 30-31, 2020, I cordially invite my colleagues working on cognate topics to attend. The...
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 idealism, Discursive Gap, e-waste, Extended Producer Responsibility, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, normalization, pollution, Publications, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Tobacco Industry
In the flurry of the semester starting, I’ve been remiss in updating this blog with a couple important articles that have come out in the press discussing the environmental harms of electronic cigarette (ecig) electronic waste (ewaste). Both The Guardian and...
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...
