AN EXCERPT: My personal opinion, I told my friend, is that its not environmentalism that’s dead, but rather labor and justice. There’s just no future in regular work; the future is in capital, connections to it, and then wielding that power eco-accordingly. I said point-blank: “Billionaire philanthropy is the only thing that can save the earth.”
And the argument makes sense. Our national and international economic systems increasingly support massive aggregations of wealth. And now, it is mainly by the benevolence of a small portion of all those millionaires and billionaires that most environmental foundations and organizations stay funded. Think Rockefeller, Hewlett, Ford, and of course, Ted Turner. And now, Wal-Mart.
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