After the failure of world “leaders” at Copenhagen, Cancun and other climate conferences (with millions consigned to starvation and displacement due to climate change so as to spare the global economy any pain) and the massive transfer of wealth and power leveraged by capital in the wake of the recent financial crisis we can hardly avoid the conclusion that we are amidst a moment of terrifying corporate power and in the grips of a fundamentally perverse paradigm of value.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 340