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unless we confront the reality that the vast majority of the major threats to our environment are currently produced and controlled by profit-making corporations. Yet in the international treaties, and in many of the radical proposals to transform our economy, corporations are either envisaged as a solution to the crisis, or are ignored completely. We can make a similar observation about the agenda that has emerged to promote a “green new deal” and a “green industrial revolution”. Take, for example, the proposal presented by the US politician Alexandria Ocasio
This book explains the direct link between the structure of the corporation and its limitless capacity for ecological destruction. It argues that we need to find the most effective means of ending the corporation’s death grip over us. The corporation is a problem, not merely because it devours natural resources, pollutes and accelerates the carbon economy. As this book argues, the constitutional structure of the corporation eradicates the possibility that we can put the protection of the planet before profit. A fight to get rid of the corporations that have brought us to this point may seem an impossible task at the moment, but it is necessary for our survival. It is hardly radical to suggest that if something is killing us, we should over-power it and make it stop. We need to kill the corporation before it kills us.
it is only a piecemeal solution. As long as they remain the principal organisations responsible for making, consuming and distributing things, corporations remain in control of industrial processes and the way they are financed. The fix to the mess we are in cannot possibly be provided by organisations that are programmed to devour nature, with no regard for the human and ecological consequences. The fix must be political. A green industrial revolution? The introduction to this book noted that in most of the political proposals for a “green new deal” and a “green
.12 This narrative ignores the racial injustice entailed in the far greater damage being done by climate change to livelihoods in the Global South.13 In contrast to the internationalism of some advocates of a ‘green new deal’,14 it represents the emergence of a white supremacist approach to the question of who should be allowed to survive ecological catastrophe, a kind of eco-fascism.15 Following in the footsteps of other authors,16 I have tried to debunk some key myths about immigration and about the notion of a pure,17 native, ‘white’ working-class to whom