Scholars @feralyogi.bsky.social and Palazzo draw attention to industrial compartmentalization: the act of treating each environmental issue/tragedy/accident as its own unavoidable externality, thus "shift[ing] the attention of scientists and the public from upstream to proximal causes". bit.ly/4hazb - ThreadSky

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climatessn.bsky.social • 61 days ago

Scholars @feralyogi.bsky.social and Palazzo draw attention to industrial compartmentalization: the act of treating each environmental issue/tragedy/accident as its own unavoidable externality, thus "shift[ing] the attention of scientists and the public from upstream to proximal causes". https://bit.ly/4hazb

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climatessn.bsky.social•61 days ago

Below are some of the modes of compartmentalizing:
"[1]. Siloing: regulating one specific chemical (e.g., PFOA) without regulating the class it belongs to (e.g., PFAS) prolongs exposures unnecessarily"

climatessn.bsky.social•61 days ago

[2]. Bureaucratization: e.g., Norway’s state-owned extractive enterprises destroying the Amazon rainforest while also acting as majority investor in the sustainability-saving Amazon Fund

climatessn.bsky.social•61 days ago

[3]. Displacement: frontloading emissions and backloading responsibility to deal with the consequences of those emissions (e.g., net carbon neutral by 2050… starting in 2049).

climatessn.bsky.social•61 days ago

[4]. Selective Risk Analysis: in chemical formulations, only the active ingredients are tested for environmental or health harms instead of the full commercial formulation (e.g., glyphosate rather than RoundUp® with its chemical cocktail of adjuvants and surfactants).

climatessn.bsky.social•61 days ago

[5]. Distraction: purposive compartmentalization creates red-herrings for the public, so that environmental and social harms are drowned out in PR soundbites (this is the one explicitly intentional form of compartmentalization).

climatessn.bsky.social•61 days ago

See Hendlin and Palazzo's article for a deeper look into how this relationship plays out in global North-South relationships, the origins of compartmentalization, and the chemical policies affected by these practices. https://bit.ly/4hazb

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