Tom Ellis
1 min readFeb 10, 2024

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I highly recommend the Canadian documentary “The Corporation” which brilliantly explores your thesis here. It first came out around 2002 or so, and I believe a sequel has been made since then; it is an eloquent, compelling expose of the history and logic of corporate capitalism and its devastating effects on our planet and on people throughout the world. I used to show it to my students every semester!
The basic issue here is simply that the inherent logic of the money game—more is always better—is completely incompatible with a finite living planet, whose cardinal rule is “enough is enough.” In the real world (Gaia) too much or too little of any value is toxic to the system. So Glomart (the global market economy) is now a cancer on Gaia, and that cancer is now terminal. Our only hope is for spontaneous remission of that global cancer, through local initiatives to grow gardens, grow community, and grow awareness.

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Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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