Rating:  Summary: Micheal Warby's Review Review: The following was written by the IPA's Micheal Warby: GlobalSpin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism Sharon Beder, ScribePublications, Melbourne, 1997, 288 pages. This is a vile book. It is also a very revealing book. It conveys quite nicely the self-righteous authoritarianism...
Rating:  Summary: Sharks in a think-tank Review: 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:  Summary: Excellent!! Review: Well written and researched overview of the methods utilized by corporations to influence and dominate ecological discourse. Using the words and documents of the corporations, Beder shows how they consistantly (big surprise) put profits over the health and well-being of the community... Extremely relevant book, particularly with the most inept and bought president in the history of the nation in a position to enforce the corporate agenda...
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