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 | Apr 8, 2022 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, Communication, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, eating animals, Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, folly, Industrial Epidemics, meat, Priorities, Systems thinking, the real, Wolves in sheep's clothing
You would think that at Erasmus University, that those trolls wishing the end of the world so that they don’t have to examine their own lives would have the good sense to keep their mouths shut. Unfortunately, that seems to be an unfounded belief. The me-first...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 16, 2022 | Aphorisms, beyond idealism, Biomimicry, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, duh, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, folly, Fragmentation, Interspecies Communication, Naturverlassenheit, Uncategorized
When we farm fish, do we think that, perhaps, we’re being farmed as well? If not? Why not? When we bind life to fulfilling one function: delivering to us what we think we need; do we ponder whether our life also is bound to what someone else desires? When we...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 6, 2022 | beyond idealism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Dante Alighieri — 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.', Discursive Gap, duh, Fake Freedoms, folly
Predictably, more surveillance and bigger data is the answer to dealing with terrorism, this time domestic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/white-house-jan-6-lessons/2022/01/04/10970c9c-6cd2-11ec-a5d2-7712163262f0_story.html In many ways, this is...
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...
