This film looks at our economic system, where huge corporations make decisions that affect all of us & planetary eco-system, with little or no accountability.
Corporations are legally bound to maximise profits,while ignoring consequences, for the financial benefit of a few individuals.
They are the epitomy of this civilisation – a culture with little or no connection to its landbase. Millions of humans live in cities. Their everyday needs delivered to them by the corporations. Children grow up never having seen a chicken, or a forest – to view themselves as consumers, their sense of self derived from what they own, working as slaves to the corporations that are chewing up the planet. Civilisation was pretty successful at turning lush forest into desert long before there were corporations, and would continue to do so if corporations were shut down. Modern corporations are just more efficient at turning all they touch to wasteland and toxic hell.
Yes, they need to be stopped, but that is just the start. We need a different kind of society, more small scale, closer to and caring for our landbases, more in touch with where our food comes from, and with real accountability for pollution, violence, ecocide etc.
“No one has the right to toxify a river. No one has the right to pollute the air. No one has the right to drive a creature to extinction, nor destroy a species’ habitat. No one has the right to profit from the labour or misery of another. No one has the right to steal resources from another.”
Derrick Jensen.
http://www.thecorporation.com/
