While the most insignificant animal species take thousands, sometimes millions of years to disappear, manufactured products are wiped off the surface of the globe in a few days; they’re never given a second chance, they can only suffer, powerless, the irresponsible and fascistic diktat of product-line managers who of course know better than anyone

There is no longer the promise of a better future. Corporations already have the future of the planet in their unbreakable grip, she said. They are going to take us down. It’s the inescapable momentum of the lifestyle we all crave. Our task is no longer to try to stop it. That is futile.