NEW RELEASE
Title: Global Spin: the corporate assault on environmentalism
[revised edition]Author: Sharon Beder
ISBN: 0 908011 44 X
RRP: $29.95 (exc GST); $32.95 (inc GSt)
Format: 234 x 153mm paperback
Extent: 336pp
Category: Environment/Politics
Pub date: 16 March 2000
Global Spin reveals the
sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful
business forces to try to change the way the public and politicians
think about the environment.
Large corporations &endash; acting through specialised PR firms, favoured think-tanks, law suits, educational campaigns and on-side media outlets &endash; are using their clout to reshape public opinion, to weaken gains made by environmentalists, and to persuade politicians against increased environmental regulations.
When Global Spin was first published in late 1997, the Institute of Public Affairs called it ‘vile’, and John Pilger called it ‘outstanding’. Newspapers would not review it, and commercial radio would not touch it. But individual readers and independent specialists raved about it, and the first edition has sold out. Overseas editions have also been published in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan.
In an exclusively Australian edition, we are reissuing the book with three explosive new chapters on corporate-sponsored confusion about global warming, Sydney’s phoney ‘green’ Olympics, and Greenpeace Australia’s apparent sellout to business interests.
AUTHOR NOTES
The author, associate professor Dr Sharon Beder, is head of the Science, Technology and Society program at the University of Wollongong. Her previous books include The Nature of Sustainable Development (also available from Scribe), The New Engineer, and Toxic Fish and Sewer Surfing.
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