Carbon Capitalism and Communication

Confronting Climate Crisis

Benedetta Brevini, Graham Murdock, Benedetta Brevini, Graham Murdock

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319578750
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319578767
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume examines the role of communication in contributing to and contesting the current climate crisis. There is now widespread agreement that even if increases in carbon emissions are kept to the current international target the climate crisis will continue to intensify. This book brings together, for the first time, state-of-the-art research with activists' interventions to place debate around climate crisis within the wider conversation about the changing relations between communications and contemporary capitalism. Contributors include; Naomi Klein, Michael Mann, Alan Rusbridger, Vincent Mosco, Jodi Dean, and leading figures in Greenpeace and 350.org.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• List of Figures
• 1 Carbon, Capitalism, Communication
• Communication and Carbon Capitalism: Contested Futures
• 2 An Interview with Michael E. Mann: Fighting for Science Against Climate Change Deniers’ Propaganda
• 3 An Interview with Naomi Klein: Capitalism Versus the Climate
• Toxic Technologies: Media Machines and Ecological Crisis
• 4 Digital Technology and the Environment: Challenges for Green Citizenship and Environmental Organizations
• 5 Digital Desires: Mediated Consumerism and Climate Crisis
• 6 From “Waste Village” to “Urban Circular Economic System”: The Changing Landscape of Waste in Beijing
• 7 Big Data, Open Data and the Climate Risk Market
• 8 The Next Internet
• Corporate Capture: PR Strategies and Promotional Gambits
• 9 An Interview with Kim Sheehan: Greenwashing in the Experience of the Greenwashing Index
• 10 Fighting for Coal: Public Relations and the Campaigns Against Lower Carbon Pollution Policies in Australia
• 11 Bearing Witness and the Logic of Celebrity in the Struggle Over Canada’s Oil/Tar Sands
• 12 Nothing but Truthiness: Public Discourses on the Adani Carmichael Mine in Australia
• Communication and Campaigning: Oppositions and Refusals
• 13 The Anamorphic Politics of Climate Change
• 14 Journalism, Climate Communication and Media Alternatives
• 15 An Interview with Alan Rusbridger: Keep it in the Ground
• 16 An Interview with David Ritter: Mobilising on Climate Change—The Experience of Greenpeace
• 17 An Interview with Blair Palese: Green Campaigns—Challenges, Opportunities and 350.org
• 18 Conclusion: One Month in the Life of the Planet—Carbon Capitalism and the Struggle for the Commons
• References
• Index