Tom Athanasiou’s Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor (Little, Brown,
$24.95, ISBN 0 316 05635 9) is a good companion book. Those
“third-wavers” who think business can turn green, who think the market can be
used to save the planet, are well-meaning but wrong. Markets can never, in the
last resort, be separated from the societies in which they function. In a deeply
divided world like ours, the markets will always be made to work for those with
the money and the power.
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