{"product_id":"industrialstrength-denial-9780520296282","title":"IndustrialStrength Denial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow corporate denial harms our world and continues tothreatenour future.    Corporations faced with proof that they are hurting people or the planet have a long history of denying evidence, blaming victims, complaining of witch hunts, attacking their critics' motives, and otherwise rationalizing their harmful activities. Denial campaigns have let corporations continue dangerous practices that cause widespread suffering, death, and environmental destruction.And, by undermining social trust in science and government, corporate denial has made it harder for our democracy to function. Barbara Freese, an environmental attorney, confronted corporate denial years ago when cross-examining coal industry witnesses who were disputing the science of climate change.She set out to discover how far from reality corporate denial had led society in the past and what damage it had done. Her resulting, deeply-researched book is an epic tour through eight campaigns of denial waged by industries defending \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A detailed look at how corporations faced with evidence that they’re ruining the earth have found a way to distort the truth and pump out propaganda that supports their business.\" -- Joe Rogan, * Joe Rogan Experience *\u003cbr\u003e“An exhaustive chronicle of white-collar true crime.”\u003cbr\u003e   * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Succeeds in providing a fascinating, well-documented, intelligently structured and morally instructive account of some cleverly selected and patently egregious cases of precisely the kind of ‘self-deception’ and ‘hypocrisy’ that . . . have been preoccupying Western ethicists for generations.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e * European Legacy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A Dangerous Phenomenon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. A “More Pleasing Representation”: The Alternate\u003cbr\u003e    Reality Crafted by the Slave Lobby\u003cbr\u003e 2. “A Wonderful Stimulant”: Radium, Risk, and\u003cbr\u003e    Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e 3. “The Nut behind the Wheel”: Carmakers Avoiding\u003cbr\u003e    Blame for Highway Deaths\u003cbr\u003e 4. “How Wrong One Can Be”: Bias, Tribalism, and\u003cbr\u003e    Leaded Gasoline\u003cbr\u003e 5. “Our Free Enterprise System Is at Stake”: CFCs,\u003cbr\u003e    Ideology, and Manipulated Uncertainty\u003cbr\u003e 6. “Psychological Crutches”: Tobacco’s Mass Production\u003cbr\u003e    of Denial\u003cbr\u003e 7. “Bottom Line. Nothing Else Matters”: The Financial\u003cbr\u003e    Crisis and a Culture of Exploitation\u003cbr\u003e 8. A “Deceitful, Hysterical, Out-of-Control Rampage”:\u003cbr\u003e    Fossil Fuels, Climate Denial, and Distrust Building\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e    Conclusion: Shifting the Social Norm toward\u003cbr\u003e    the Public Interest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Major Works Cited in Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402897170775,"sku":"9780520296282","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520296282.jpg?v=1730481802","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/industrialstrength-denial-9780520296282","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}