Guy Pearse. Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams.

摘要

What role does marketing play in the alteration of climate and the destruction of ecosystems? A central one according to Guy Pearse whose 2012 book, Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams, exposes the spin, scams, and marketing plans by which multinational companies convince consumers that their products are fighting the good fight against carbon emissions. Pearse has spent some years collecting adverts and comparing industry claims to carbon neutrality against measures of environmental performances. The results of these endeavors will be of little surprise to readers of the Journal of Macromarket-ing: companies' production, investment, and growth figures rarely tally with the promises made by advertising campaigns. More shocking, however, is the scale of the green branding swindle, and the means by which companies portray products and services as eco-friendly consumer solutions to our planetary path of destruction.