The World Trade Organization is trying to establish a corporate plutocracy. Already, the world's top 200 companies have twice the assets of 80 percent of the world's people.
Global corporations represent a new empire.
Paul Hawken Sausalito, California Author and activist Paul Hawken has written an extraordinary essay on the historic Battle in Seattle. The article will be published simultanously in nearly a dozen eco-magazines. In your Spring 2000 story on foxes versus clapper rails, the controversy pitting survival of wild populations against the moral imperative to interact humanely seems just as false as the one pitting jobs against the environment. Your Spring issue contained a tragic falsehood. Earth Day continues to be celebrated by the United Nations on the March Equinox - Nature's special day when Spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere.