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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

239) Barbara Freese: Examining corporate denial from the slave trade to climate change

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Barbara Freese is an environmental attorney, former Minnesota assistant attorney general, and author of several books including her latest, Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change.

In this podcast episode, Barbara sheds light on how we can connect the dots of various case studies of corporate denialism to determine which tactics are commonly deployed; how we can combat the effects of corporate denial that have caused long-lasting public confusion and divisiveness; and more.

 

Featured music: This is Us by Girl Pow-R

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This month, Green Dreamer is also sponsored by my favorite tea brand, Arbor Tees,

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They source loose leave and organic certified teas. They use backyard compostable packaging,

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which they've been doing for the past 10 years, by the way. Their operations run on solar energy,

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their well-being. To shop Arbor Tees Organic Tees, just head to Arbor teas.com. That's A-R-B-O-R-T-E-A-S.com.

1:51.5

Climate denial has benefited tremendously from earlier episodes of corporate denial, particularly the denial around the ozone layer depleting chemicals and tobacco, because what

1:57.7

happened was the industries that were confronting more regulation

2:02.4

recognized that they really needed to band together to oppose the whole idea of particularly

2:11.5

environmental and health regulations.

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