Guy Pearse

Big Coal

Australia's Dirtiest Habit

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Australia's dirtiest habit is its addiction to coal. But is our dependence on it a road to prosperity or a dead end? Are we hooked for life? And who is profiting from our addiction?Former lobbyist and political insider Guy Pearse, media and politics commentator David McKnight and environment writer Bob Burton cut through the spin to expose the underbelly of an industry whose power continues to soar while its expansion feeds catastrophic climate change.They dissect the charm offensive (and muscle) the coal industry uses to get its way, and reveal the myth of 'clean coal' - and the taxpayer-funded PR machine behind it. They chart the stratosphe… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: McKnight, David / Burton, Bob

ISBN: 978-1-74223-303-1
EAN: 9781742233031
Produktnummer: 15278518
Verlag: NewSouth Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.6 cm 443 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 443

Über den Autor

Guy Pearse is the author of Greenwash: Big brands and carbon scams, High & Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future and the Quarterly Essay Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom. David McKnight is the author of Rupert Murdoch: an investigation of political power as well as Beyond Right and Left: New Politics and the Culture War and Australia's Spies and their Secrets. Bob Burton is the author of Inside Spin: The dark underbelly of the PR industry.