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Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.


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In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.



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I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.



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Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.



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