Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet?

ISBN-13: 9781509524006 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 160 str.

Peter Dauvergne

Opis

Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing. Nonprofits rely on their philanthropy. People look to their brands for meaning. And their power continues to rise.

Recenzje

Can the same corporations that have brought us violent overconsumption, endless growth, and inequality be trusted to fix those crises? Spoiler alert: not a chance. Rarely have the questions in this pithy book been framed so carefully, or answered so satisfyingly.
Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything.

"Peter Dauvergne′s book is so reasonably argued it is hard to believe his conclusion is so radical. Put bluntly, without growth corporations will die, so they must keep selling us more stuff. It is in the system′s DNA. But the organism is now devouring its host, and we need a mutation fast."
Clive Hamilton, Charles Sturt University, Canberra

[A] highly readable and caustic critique of ethical corporate behaviour ... a breath of fresh air.
New Scientist

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• 1 Total Destruction? No
• 2 The Rising Power of Big Business
• 3 The Business of CSR
• 4 The Dark Side of Big Business
• 5 The Consumption Problem
• 6 Less Destruction
• Further Reading
• Notes

O autorze

Peter Dauvergne is Professor of International Relations at the University of British Columbia.