The Climate Change Counter Movement: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sought to Delay Climate Action

Abstract

This book provides an insight into the emergence of climate change coun-termovement operations across the world. From the 1960s it became clear to the fossil fuel industry and related corporations that they would have to act fast to mitigate the impacts of fossil fuel production and consumption. However, because climate change posed a significant threat to business as usual from the late 1980s through the following two decades the climate change countermovement emerged to protect their industry. Moreover, it became the role of the climate change countermovement to influence policy and public opinion across countries to obstruct and delay effective and swift global action on climate change.