More is Not the Answer
Corporatism, Consumerism, and Loathing

A video interview with Orion columnist
Bill McKibben

More and more, as corporations usurp the prerogatives of sovereign peoples, and world economies spin out of control, hope can be found in the enormous resistance around the globe to an American corporate vision largely perceived to be one of parochial self-interest.

We are locked in a "titanic struggle," says McKibben, between two very different visions of the future. The welfare of hundreds of millions of people, our own security, and the fate of the planet all hang on the outcome.

Bill McKibben is the author of the bestselling The End of Nature, and, most recently, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered World. He is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, and a regular columnist for Orion magazine.

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