And the people driven to cities, jobless, join the hordes of hungry migrants moving across borders. The situation with forestry is identical. Similar instances can be cited in the industrialization of fisheries, the giant trawler sweeping quantities of ocean life thousands of' times greater than the small fisher boats, killing the oceans and the traditional fishing practices alike. We could enumerate a hundred other areas of economic endeavour. This homogenizing, massifying process is now being globalized as the corporate supervisors follow the inevitable growth and expansion dictates of their technological mandates.
Technique goes global.
But once those societies succumb to the dictates of the machine, or are pressed to do so, all becomes uniform, at one with the rules of efficiency, objectivity, productivity, economic growth and profit that are intrinsic to technique. Only one century into this process, the result is apparent in the looming catastrophes of global warming, ozone depletion, loss of species, pollution of all waters, loss of species, pollution of all waters, loss of ecosystem viability, massive loss of biodiversily and in the case forests, their rapid elimination and replacement with vast wastelands of clearcuts, or monocultural industrialized tree farms. The combination of these and other goings-on has brought us directly to the brink of a terrible ecological Armageddon. Not judging by what is also simultaneously happening among human populations being similarly industrialized, made to fit the rules of the corporate-industrial process. We now see a level of alienation, suicide, violence, and a growing gulf between rich and poor that bespeaks a society that has been victimized nearly as much as the natural world it worked to destroy.