On "Can Corporate Citizenship Save the Planet?"

http://www.onphilanthropy.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7425&news_iv_ctrl=0

The most important is missed: the fact that the action of any company cannot save the planet, even if it is imitated, but that companies CAN save the planet IF they demand a better global system, meaning a more legitimate and efficient system of global governance. Civilisation will go under not because of bad faith or the lack of technologies, BUT because we simply don’t have an efficient global decision-making mechanism! We could die because even the smartest of the corporate and philanthropic world are not even aware it seems that the real solution is one of horrendous "management" of the world. And no matter WHAT companies do, as long as that remains, chances are that global catastrophe will occur. And that the most probable scenario for global governance in the future becomes one where it does happen, but under crisis situations, and then it will be autocratic rather than democratic. So the likeliest outcome is the emergence in the future of what could be called "global green fascism", a global authoritarian regime justified because of the survival of the species. Or possibly the return to wars, and descent into global "dark ages", metaphorically in addition to literally. So global corporate citizenship is a cop-out and wishful thinking if it does not include the simple yet powerful demand that the world needs to think how to design, create a global democracy type regime, because if it does not, the most likely regime to emerge in the 21st century will be a nightmare.