Mapping Environmental Discourses - A New Model (including 'Disaster Capitalism')

Having just finished a sub-chapter on John Drysek's environmental discourses (from his book The Politics of the Earth - see below), I decided that a new model was needed to address certain problem. I am not going to publish the whole discussion here but I want to post the diagram and am interested to hear what other people think of this model.

This new diagram (made today) attempts to reflect hidden power dynamics and ideological positions. Discourses that suit business interests are legitimized at the expense of discourses that more profoundly problematise current industrial practices. To a large extent, the market determines what information is publicly available because communications often either take the form of ‘marketing’, i.e. adverts, and/or are produced by industries that are dependent on advertising. Discursive discipline maintains marginalizes critical positions. Furthermore, discourses are not always made explicit; vested interests will mask their intentions to create policy that works in their favour. The green capitalism discourse is hegemonic but as crises continue to accelerate, a more coersive type of ‘disaster capitalism’ emerges (Klein, 2008). Green capitalism does not have the critical strategies available to it to resist the rise of disaster capitalism. The model above attempts to address some of these problems

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This diagram is based on John Drysek's The Politics of the Earth, Oxford University Press, 2005.