Greenwashing Sport

by Toby Miller

Book Overview

Professional sports promote their green credentials and yet remain complicit in our global environmental crisis

Sports are responsible for significant carbon footprints through stadium construction and energy use, player and spectator travel, and media coverage. The impact of sports on climate change is further compounded by sponsorship deals with the gas and petroleum industries-imbuing those extractive corporations with a positive image...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138962759
• ISBN13: 9781138962750
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"