I want to quote a passage concerning corporations I found in a book I am currently reading:
"when I look at corporations, I see a dangerous abberation of our own making. The corporate animal exists only in the two dimensions of paper, yet it feeds on the wet and wild three-dimensional living world. Unlike any other user of the earth's resources, corporations have evolved untouched by the inexorable pressures that have forced each species to coexist with every other.Their growth is cancer-like, but instead of withering on the destruction they cause, corporations escape death by lifting their heads and moving on to another unsullied energy-rich habitat.
This cannot continue.
In a not-too-distant future, the natural systems we all depend on will be crippled. They will fail to sustain life. The predatory growth of corporations has eaten gaping holes in the planet's nervous system, fragmented the essential ebb and flow of energy, and ignored the closed-loop nature of our existence.
Diversity is natures's ace in the hole. Whether it's a forest of trees, a species of salmon, or a herd of caribou, nature has made certain that the organisms are not all the same. If a certain strain of virus or bacteria develops a taste for caribou, the diversity among the species ensures that at least some of the caribou will survive. But corporations value uniformity-uniform species of trees, uniform pools of Atlantic salmon. This seems the height of folly. It assumes that any and all pathogens are under our control. They are not. And if the corporate world continues to defeat the world's natural systems of diversity, one day we will pay an exceedingly high price."
"when I look at corporations, I see a dangerous abberation of our own making. The corporate animal exists only in the two dimensions of paper, yet it feeds on the wet and wild three-dimensional living world. Unlike any other user of the earth's resources, corporations have evolved untouched by the inexorable pressures that have forced each species to coexist with every other.Their growth is cancer-like, but instead of withering on the destruction they cause, corporations escape death by lifting their heads and moving on to another unsullied energy-rich habitat.
This cannot continue.
In a not-too-distant future, the natural systems we all depend on will be crippled. They will fail to sustain life. The predatory growth of corporations has eaten gaping holes in the planet's nervous system, fragmented the essential ebb and flow of energy, and ignored the closed-loop nature of our existence.
Diversity is natures's ace in the hole. Whether it's a forest of trees, a species of salmon, or a herd of caribou, nature has made certain that the organisms are not all the same. If a certain strain of virus or bacteria develops a taste for caribou, the diversity among the species ensures that at least some of the caribou will survive. But corporations value uniformity-uniform species of trees, uniform pools of Atlantic salmon. This seems the height of folly. It assumes that any and all pathogens are under our control. They are not. And if the corporate world continues to defeat the world's natural systems of diversity, one day we will pay an exceedingly high price."
-Alexandra Morton, Listening to Whales pg. 297-298
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