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and these together
constitute the biosphere
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the biosphere that supports
and nurtures all of life
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not just our life but perhaps
30 million other species
:39:12
that share
this planet with us.
:39:19
The typical company
of the 20th century
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extractive wasteful
abusive linear
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in all of its processes
:39:27
taking from the earth
:39:29
making wasting
sending its products
:39:32
back to the biosphere
waste to a landfill...
:39:38
I myself was amazed to learn
just how much stuff
:39:41
the earth has to produce
through our extraction process
:39:47
to produce a dollar of
revenue for our company.
:39:50
When I learnt
I was flabbergasted.
:39:59
We are leaving a terrible
legacy of poison
:40:04
and diminishment
of the environment
:40:09
for our grandchildrens
grandchildren
:40:13
generations not yet born.
:40:16
Some people have called that
intergeneration tyranny
:40:19
a form of taxation
without representation
:40:22
levied by us
on generations yet to be.
:40:29
It's the wrong
thing to do.
:40:35
One of the questions
that comes up periodically
:40:37
is to what extent could
corporation be considered
:40:40
to be psychopathic.
:40:43
And if we look at a corporation
as a legal person
:40:46
that it may not be that
difficult to actually draw
:40:48
the transition between
psychopathy in the individual
:40:51
to psychopathy
in a corporation.
:40:54
We could go through
the characteristics
:40:55
that define this particular
disorder one by one
:40:58
and see how they might
apply to corporations.