Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Integrating the Ecological Issue; 3 Ecological Commitment in Business; 4 The Framing of Ecology; 5 Talking About 'Sustainable Development'; 6 Wording the World; 7 Shaping Environmental Discourse; 8 Resisting Imposed Metaphors of Value; 9 Engineering Agriculture: Who Pays the Price?; 10 Language and Orwell's Problem; 11 Concluding Obfuscation and Disinformation; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The author demonstrates the linguistic distractions, euphemisms and pitfalls of corporate-political discourse on the environment subjecting them to a trenchant analysis
