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Paris

Big Oil Gets Its Deal

From: The Big Stall

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Analyzes the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change and reports on how the proceedings came to be dominated by corporate interests. Analyzes the impact of decades of well funded denialism. Suggests that the ground work is being laid for corporations to profit from the eventual failure of carbon taxes. Governments will be forced to finance climate mitigation efforts, the proceeds of which will augment corporate profits.

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Donald Gutstein

DONALD GUTSTEIN is a former professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and co-director of NewsWatch Canada, a media-monitoring project at the school. He is the author of Harperism: How Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada as well as four other books on the links between large corporations, politics and the media. He lives in Vancouver.