Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet?

Peter Dauvergne is Professor of International Relations at the University of British Columbia.

• Acknowledgments1 Total Destruction? No2 The Rising Power of Big Business3 The Business of CSR4 The Dark Side of Big Business5 The Consumption Problem6 Less DestructionFurther ReadingNotes

“Can the same corporations that have brought us violent overconsumption, endless growth, and inequality be trusted to fix those crises? Spoiler alert: not a chance. Rarely have the questions in this pithy book been framed so carefully, or answered so satisfyingly.” Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything."Peter Dauvergne's book is so reasonably argued it is hard to believe his conclusion is so radical. Put bluntly, without growth corporations will die, so they must keep selling us more stuff. It is in the system's DNA. But the organism is now devouring its host, and we need a mutation — fast."Clive Hamilton, Charles Sturt University, Canberra“[A] highly readable and caustic critique of ethical corporate behaviour ... a breath of fresh air.”New Scientist