This book provides an historical account of the emergence and spread of the climate change counter movement across the globe. Drawing on an extensive database developed by the author, the book recounts the development of an international network, taking the reader on a journey through the history of the movement before looking closely at a series of comparative case studies examining movement organisations in different countries.
Author(s): Ruth E. McKie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 188
City: London
Acknowledgments
About This Book
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Fossil Fuel Capitalism and Ecological Degradation
1.2 Climate Change: Challenges to the “Status Quo”
1.3 Challenges to the Status Quo: The Emergence of a Climate Change Countermovement
1.4 Structure of the Book
References
2 The Foundations of the Climate Change Counter Movement: United States of America
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Fossil Industry Activated (1950–1980)
2.3 Proliferation of the Counter Movement: 1990s–Early 2000s
2.4 The Republican Party and Success in a Legislative Context (2001–2008)
2.5 The Obama Years: (2008–2016)
2.6 Conclusion
References
3 Disseminating Ideas: European Countermovement Activity
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Economic Liberalism, Neoliberalism: European Influence on the Climate Change Counter Movement
3.3 Think Tank Opposition: Atlas Network European Quarter
3.4 On Government Doorsteps: 55 Tufton Street
3.5 Individuals, Government Officials, and the Diffusion of Climate Delay in Europe
3.6 Dutch Shell, Frits Böttcher, and Public Relations
3.7 Libertarianism, Political Education, and Dissemination of Discourses of Delay
3.8 Consolidating Networks: European Climate Realist Network
3.9 Conclusion
References
4 Australia and New Zealand: Fossil Fuels and Climate Mitigation Failings
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Coal and Gas Mining
4.3 The Howard Government: The Power of the Extractive Industry (1995–2007)
4.4 Combatting Kevin Rudd’s Government: The Institute for Public Affairs
4.5 Fringe Groups, Coal Links, and Public Engagement
4.6 The Abbott Government, Murdoch, and the Media
4.7 New Zealand: Think Tanks and Astroturfing and Agriculture
4.8 Conclusion
References
5 Canada and Petro-Nationalism
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Hegemony of Fossil Fuels
5.3 The Fraser Institute (1989–2006)
5.4 Think Tanks, Ideology and Expanding Opposition
5.5 Fringe Groups and Public Relations: Responding to Harper’s Government (2006–2012)
5.6 Industry Groups, Extractive Populism and the Paris Agreement
5.7 Conclusion
References
6 Manifestations of the Climate Change Counter Movement in the Global South
6.1 Understanding the CCCM in the Context of the Global South
6.2 CCCM Operations and the Mont Pelerin Society: 2000–2007
6.3 The Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change and Think Tank Networks (2007–2009)
6.4 Energy Independence, Economic Development, and South-South Cooperation
6.5 Industry Associations, Domestic and Transnational Organizations
6.6 Conclusion
References
7 Conclusion
Reference
Index
