The corporate planet : ecology and politics in the age of globalization / Joshua Karliner
- Bib ID:
- 1728063
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Karliner, Joshua
- Description:
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- San Francisco ; [Great Britain] : Sierra Club Books, c1997
- xvii, 298 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0871564343 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The Corporate Planet brilliantly exposes the elaborate efforts of giant corporations to "greenwash" themselves, and it demonstrates how they are using free trade agreements and World Bank loans to build a world order where they are accountable only to themselves. From Tokyo, where Mitsubishi processes rain forest logs from around the world, to a polluting Chevron oil refinery in California, to India, China, and Brazil, where global chemical companies are setting up shop, Joshua Karliner takes us on a stunning world tour. Here is a fascinating account of corporate greed and the unexpected powers of local activists to combat it.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. The Corporate Planet: Environment and the Crisis of Globalization
- Ch. 2. The Greening of Global Reach: Corporate Environmentalism Comes of Age
- Ch. 3. Surfing the Pipeline: The Chevron Corporation and the Environmental Impacts of Oil
- Ch. 4. Island of Dreams: Mitsubishi and Japan's Keiretsu
- Ch. 5. Toxic Empire: The World Bank, Free Trade and the Migration of Hazardous Industry
- Ch. 6. The Emerald City: Advertising, Public Relations and the Production of Desire
- Ch. 7. Grassroots Globalization: Reclaiming the Blue Planet.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-282) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1997
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