Christianity, Capitalism, Corporations, and the Myth of Dominion

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by Norman Council
Newtopia Magazine
June/July, 2004

http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue17/features/dominion.php

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The most significant danger to the environment today arises from the fact that few people in America believe that the current administration's revolutionary radicalism is real. Most, as Paul Krugman puts in his book "The Unraveling of America", believe that the outrageous proposals that come from the executive branch are nothing more than opening negotiating positions. In fact, the most frightening thing about the radical's agenda to date is that it is but the tip of the iceberg, the opening salvo of their war on American institutions of society and government.

At the heart of both foreign and domestic policy, including environmental policy is the cancer of fundamentalism that I have addressed in a previous issue of Newtopia Magazine (http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue15/features/evangelism.php.) Here it is important to note that fundamentalism has had a specifically negative effect in environmental policy due to its inherent anti-scientific stance.

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President Bush has put together a cabinet of CEOs and millionaires; he routinely appoints former executives and industry lobbyists for the greatest polluting industries as directors of agencies whose function is to regulate those industries. He has, to follow Paul Krugman's logic, empowered a revolutionary process. The function of that process is to return America - to return the world - to a feudalistic society in which corporate barons make all decisions and derive the primary benefits of their unhindered exploitation of the natural and human resources a of the earth.

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We are faced with a new imperialism, driven by the Cheney doctrine of Pax Americana and avaricious corporations empowered by the concepts of globalization. With control over both the Congress and the White House and with its eyes set on control of the judiciary, the Bush administration has a mainly disinterested or largely supportive people to contend with. Given its religious biases and entitlements, its anti-scientific policies and its seemingly unending capacity to lie and distort the truth for a gullible public, there is little light on the horizon for those who would like to preserve the earth.

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