The 11th Hour (24 of 49)

The 11th Hour

The questions then arise, why aren't we responding? But more important, what are the forces that are blocking change? The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.
There's always been a greed factor in human civilization...
and what has happened with the creation of corporations...
which are the dominant institutions of our age...
is that they have perfected that as a system.
And what we literally face today is that...
this is going to kill off our host, the planet.
T oday, ecosystems, forests, streams, lakes, rivers...
they have no rights.
They' re property.

Which means they can be bought, sold, destroyed, traded, carved up.
Under this structure of law, you' re either property or you' re a person.
And it's very clear that nature is property.
And so the reason why we have these reams of documents in libraries...
about solutions, about solar, about how to produce food in a sustainable way...
about transportation, about changing production methods...
and putting in place a sustainable economy that respects the planet is...
we've lacked the authority to drive those things into law.
Because in reality we have a Constitution that empowers the corporate few...
to make decisions that trump the majority.
And it has been our failure to drive real law into place...
because we don't have the authority.
We have very responsive political leaders.