Andrew Simms, Leo Murray

Badvertising

Polluting Our Minds and Fuelling Climate Chaos

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Uncovers the devastating psychological, social and environmental costs of advertising

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780745349145
• ISBN-10: 0745349145
• Artikelnr.: 67734843

Autorenporträt

Andrew Simms is the author of many books including The New Economics, Ecological Debt, Tescopoly and Cancel the Apocalypse and Economics: A Crash Course. He co-founded the New Weather Institute and coordinates the Rapid Transition Alliance. He is a research associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation (NEF), and is a frequent contributor to the Guardian and BBC. He co-founded the Green New Deal group in 2007, the climate campaign onehundredmonths.org that ran until 2017, and devised Earth Overshoot Day.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: Advertising and the Insidious Rise of Brain Pollution
1. Badvertising, Priming, Propaganda and Surveillance Advertising
2. How Advertising Increases Consumption
3. How We Banned Tobacco Advertising
4. Sports Advertising and Sponsorship: The Great Pollution Own Goal
5. How Big Car Persuaded Us to Buy Big Cars
6. How Airlines Took Us For a Ride
7. Why Self-Regulation Isn't Working
8. A World Without Advertising
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index