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5 Digital Desires: Mediated Consumerism and Climate
Crisis 57
Justin Lewis

6 From “Waste Village” to “Urban Circular Economic
System”: The Changing Landscape of Waste in Beijing 71
Xin Tong

7 Big Data, Open Data and the Climate Risk Market 83
Jo Bates

8 The Next Internet 95
Vincent Mosco

Part III Corporate Capture: PR Strategies and Promotional
Gambits

9 An Interview with Kim Sheehan: Greenwashing in the
Experience of the Greenwashing Index 111
Kim Sheehan and Benedetta Brevini

10 Fighting for Coal: Public Relations and the Campaigns
Against Lower Carbon Pollution Policies in Australia 115
David McKnight and Mitchell Hobbs

11 Bearing Witness and the Logic of Celebrity in the
Struggle Over Canada’s Oil/Tar Sands 131
Patrick McCurdy

12 Nothing but Truthiness: Public Discourses on the Adani
Carmichael Mine in Australia 147
Benedetta Brevini and Terry Woronov