Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

There's no trodden path here. We can't go back and look at what other companies have done because no other company has done this.

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

That thing that is sometimes called the responsibility of intellectuals is the responsibility of every decent person.

According to the Christian faith, we in the Western countries have a strong perception that we are the masters of creation. Consequently, we are entitled to use nature for our own purposes. When we do so, the equilibrium between original people and nature is upset. People are alienated from nature and are no longer part of it.