In the current era, corporate power translates into abuses of the environment and violations of every human right, including basic human rights, worker rights, and the rights of women. As a result, limiting corporate power must be a central concern for those who seek a strategy to save the environment.
Environmentalists need to insist that businesses create or allow for mechanisms to hold them accountable to society. Corporate accountability is precisely the opposite of what is happening today in the political arena, where the allies of corporations in the government are trying to take these corporations one step beyond the reach of democratic accountability.
In addition to fighting for limits on corporate power, it’s important for environmentalists today to focus on overcoming the divisions within the environmental movement, as well as the separations between environmental, economic justice, and social justice movements. At present, even when some campaigns become...
