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An increasingly global economy has brought with it a promise of unlimited growth, diversification, and prosperity, but its opponents charge that instead it stimulates social disintegration and unemployment, decreases democracy, and only serves the corporations themselves rather than the bulk of the world's inhabitants. David Korten , chair of the Positive Futures Network and president of the People-Centered Development Forum thinks localization of economic structures is the only way to a brighter future. Steve Gibson , the executive director of The Bionomics Institute , says we need to stop thinking of the economy as an engine that we can tinker with, and, rather, begin opening up the channels to globalization. It means rooting capital to a place and distributing its control among as many people as possible. And machines don't grow, ecosystems do.