Ecocide: Kill the corporation before it kills us

David Whyte

doi:10.7765/9781526151063

This book explains the direct link between the structure of the corporation and its limitless capacity for ecological destruction. It argues that we need to find the most effective means of ending the corporation’s death grip over us. The corporation is a problem, not merely because it devours natural resources, pollutes and accelerates the carbon economy. As this book argues, the constitutional structure of the corporation eradicates the possibility that we can put the protection of the planet before profit. A fight to get rid of the corporations that have brought us to this point may seem an impossible task at the moment, but it is necessary for our survival. It is hardly radical to suggest that if something is killing us, we should over-power it and make it stop. We need to kill the corporation before it kills us.

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Kill the corporation before it kills us

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Preface: from COVID-capitalism to survival of the species
pp vi-xiii

Acknowledgements
pp xiv-xvi

Introduction: corporate ecocide
pp 1-21

1 - What is the corporation?
pp 22-65

2 - From colonialism to ecocide: capital's insatiable need to destroy
pp 66-105

3 - Regulation at the end-point of the world
pp 106-145

Conclusion: kill the corporation before it kills us
pp 146-175

Notes
pp 176-211

Index
pp 212-220

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