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Title: Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism by Sharon Beder ISBN: 1-931498-08-3 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Sharks in a think-tank
Comment: Very good expose, naming details, of the campaign to discredit environmentalism by the various conservative business groups at risk from public awareness of the issues. From the use of fronts, to the thinktanks to the public relations industry, the account shows how public opinion, which favors some kind of action on these crucial issues, has been consistently thwarted by the massive onslaught of opinion-manipulation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent investigation of corporate anti-environmentalism
Comment: I was recently invited to present seminars on the environmental backlash at Princeton and Stanford Universities, and Beder's well-researched book provided me with excellent information on some of the tactics employed by the political right aimed at undermining science. Most importantly, I want to put the negative reviewer's comments (below) into some perspective: in 1998, ALL environmental NGO's (including Greenpeace), spent a paltry 4.7 million dollars lobbying members of Congress, whereas all self interest groups spent a combined total of 76.2 million dollars on diverse issues ranging across the political spectrum. In the SAME year, the agribusiness industry alone spent 119.3 million dollars lobbying members of congress, whereas the combined expenditures of all industries added up to a staggering 1.2 billion dollars. This money includes only that used exclusively for lobbying, and not the "soft" money corporations use also to buy political influence. So, to answer the critic below, I would reiterate, we need to put this in perspective.
I don't want to use my position as a scientist to defend NGO's when they exaggerate problems, but I am frankly much more concerned when immensely powerful multinationals attempt to manipulate science. At present, corporate power is being used question the seriousness, or even the existence, of environmental problems such as global warming and rates of species extinction, even though these are areas where there is broad consensus amongst my peers. As Paul Ehrlich said, this has very little to do with science, but more to do with dirty politics with the agenda of looting and polluting for profit.
I applaud Beder for her efforts and this book reflects that.
Rating: 4
Summary: Nifty Book
Comment: Sharon Beder brings to light gargantuan efforts from the corporate world to win the PR battle against the environment.
She stays on topic, taking looks at the "Wise Use" movement, conservative think tanks, corporate influences in the media, Lawsuits against public participation + the decline of democracy, Industry's PR and front groups, corporate advertising strategies in education and marketing.....
This stuff makes your spine shiver. She supplies plently of evidence, has an extensive bibliography, and develops her position with clarity. This book is a must read for anyone interested in environmentalism, for it sadly shows what honest scientists and activists are up against.
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Title: Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich ISBN: 1559634847 Publisher: Shearwater Books Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg ISBN: 0865714827 Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Environmental Policy Paradox, Fourth Edition by Zachery A. Smith ISBN: 0130993085 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 06 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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Title: Television Talk : A History of the TV Talk Show by Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler ISBN: 0292781768 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: SCH-WAR AGAINST THE GREENS by David Helvarg ISBN: 0871564599 Publisher: Random House, Inc. Pub. Date: 27 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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