Barbara Freese

How corporate denial harms our world and continues to threaten our future. Corporations faced with proof that they are harming people or the planet have a long history of denying evidence, blaming victims, complaining of witch hunts, attacking their critics’ motives, and otherwise rationalising their harmful activities. Denial campaigns have allowed corporations to continue dangerous practices that cause widespread suffering,...

How corporate denial harms our world and continues to threaten our 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 rationalising their harmful activities. Denial campaigns have let corporations continue dangerous practices that cause widespread suffering, death,...

In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as the best stone in Britain by Roman invaders who carved jewellery out of it, coal has transformed societies, launched empires, and expanded frontiers. It made China an eleventh-century superpower, inspired the Communist Manifesto,...