Saving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic: Corporate Profiteering and Planetary Destruction

The technologies that are, and have been, employed in creating our modern lifestyle are delivering world-destroying climate change and environmental pollution. Current methods of industrial production are depleting resources, compromising planetary health, and contributing to species extinction. Corporate agriculture’s disastrous environmental record is revealed. The various right-wing think tanks spinning the virtues of a world of pesticides and plastic are exposed. The motivations and tactics of the climate change deniers are explained. Most employ a five-pronged attack. They target the science, target the scientists themselves, target organisations fighting for climate justice, attack proposed policy solutions and, finally, insist that the only way the world will meet future energy demands is through cheap fossil fuels and nuclear power.