CSSN Scholars Yogi Hale Hendlin and Fernando Procópio 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”. The authors speak on the modes of compartmentalization and how it plays out in global North-South relationships, as well as the chemical policies affected by these practices.