- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Living on a New Earth -
Section 1 Causes of the New Earth -
1 The Changing Shape of Global Environmental Politics -
2 Green Earth: The Emergence of Planetary Civilization -
Section 2 Scholarship as Engagement -
3 The Co-production of Knowledge about International Governance: Living on the Science/Policy Interface -
4 Scholarship as Citizenship -
Section 3 Pedagogies of Hope -
5 Person/Planet Politics: Contemplative Pedagogies for a New Earth -
6 Make Way for Hope: A Contrarian View -
Section 4 New Earth Institutions -
7 Institutional Politics and Reform -
8 An Engaged Scholarship Narrative -
Section 5 Social Movements and Civil Society -
9 Autonomy and Activism in Civil Society -
10 Converting the Environmental Movement into a Missionary Religious Force -
Section 6 New Earth Geopolitics -
11 Toward Sharing Our Ecospace -
12 China on the World Stage* -
Section 7 Climate Change: The New Earth’s Defining Problem -
13 Climate Change through the Lens of Energy Transformation -
14 Governing Climate Engineering -
Section 8 Narrative Frames for Living on a New Earth -
15 Living at the Margins -
16 The Sustainability Story: Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and Illusions -
Epilogue: Politics for a New Earth: Governing in the “Anthropocene” - Contributors
- Index
The Sustainability Story: Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and Illusions
The Sustainability Story: Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and Illusions
- Chapter:
- (p.387) 16 The Sustainability Story: Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and Illusions
- Source:
- New Earth Politics
- Author(s):
Peter Dauvergne
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter analyzes the growing influence of multinational corporations on the narrative of sustainability, demonstrating how over the past decade they have been turning a once critical discourse of the environmental movement into a business strategy of growth and control. Seeing the general understanding of sustainability losing its ecological meaning, some environmentalists are giving up on the concept. This chapter sees this as a mistake. The author argues for the ongoing value of the narrative of sustainability, calling for environmentalists to continue to infuse this narrative with principles of ecology, equity, and social justice, and to do more to challenge the half-truths and illusions underlying the corporate claims of sustainability progress and leadership. Scholars and students of global environmental politics, he contends, are especially well placed to help recapture the narrative of sustainability.
Keywords: Corporations, Ecological, Environmentalists, global environmental politics, social justice, sustainability
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Living on a New Earth -
Section 1 Causes of the New Earth -
1 The Changing Shape of Global Environmental Politics -
2 Green Earth: The Emergence of Planetary Civilization -
Section 2 Scholarship as Engagement -
3 The Co-production of Knowledge about International Governance: Living on the Science/Policy Interface -
4 Scholarship as Citizenship -
Section 3 Pedagogies of Hope -
5 Person/Planet Politics: Contemplative Pedagogies for a New Earth -
6 Make Way for Hope: A Contrarian View -
Section 4 New Earth Institutions -
7 Institutional Politics and Reform -
8 An Engaged Scholarship Narrative -
Section 5 Social Movements and Civil Society -
9 Autonomy and Activism in Civil Society -
10 Converting the Environmental Movement into a Missionary Religious Force -
Section 6 New Earth Geopolitics -
11 Toward Sharing Our Ecospace -
12 China on the World Stage* -
Section 7 Climate Change: The New Earth’s Defining Problem -
13 Climate Change through the Lens of Energy Transformation -
14 Governing Climate Engineering -
Section 8 Narrative Frames for Living on a New Earth -
15 Living at the Margins -
16 The Sustainability Story: Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and Illusions -
Epilogue: Politics for a New Earth: Governing in the “Anthropocene” - Contributors
- Index
