The patenting of life and the control of agricultural resources by a handful of global corporations is destroying global biodiversity. As James Goldsmith points out, the transfer of jobs to the Third World has huge social costs in the West as we experience social disintegration on a global scale. In the introduction Jerry Mander shows how when not ignoring the globalisation that is taking place at breath taking speed, the opponents are slurred. Newsweek were eventually forced to print a belated apology, but by then it was too late, the damage had been done. GNP is primarily a measure of consumption.
Consumption translates to resource depletion and waste.
At a time of increasing GNP, but much faster growing unemployment and social deprivation, GNP can not be considered as a meaningful measure of well-being. Richard L Grossman and Frank T Adams put forward a novel idea. Corporations exist as legal entities under the law, quasi-legal people. They only exist by means of incorporation and corporate charters. There is nothing to prevent the relevant legislative authority to amend the rules of incorporation to make these corporations more accountable to the communities in which and from which they operate.