The Connection Between Public Relations, Corporate Power, and Environmental Exploitation

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This chapter explores how public relations is used to justify corporate exploitation of the environment and portrays corporations as good citizens. It also discusses the birth of the modern PR industry and its role in shaping the perception of nature and the environment.

If the Enlightenment was so great, why was it not a course correction? In fact, did cultural values that took hold in the West in this period speed up our race toward ecological suicide? Part 3 of our series, The Repair, on the climate crisis.

By season co-host Amy Westervelt, with host and producer John Biewen. Interviews with Devin Vartija, Darren Dochuk, Melissa Aronczyk, and Amber Kanazbah Crotty.

The series editor is Cheryl Devall. Music in this episode by Lili Haydn, Kim Carroll, Chris Westlake, Lesley Barber, and Cora Miron. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.