December 5, 2008

Of Coal and Corporations

Micro-activism gets results. Take coal, for example, where a lot of loosely affiliated local activists are achieving what large environmental groups cannot: making coal a non-viable economic proposition for state and local governments, taking most proposed new coal plants off the drawing boards, and expediting the closure of old ones. To explain, I turned to Ted Nace, of Coalswarm. Ted is also a very successful entrepreneur, author, and free lance journalist. Gangs of America is his latest book — a history of the American corporation in concept and in practice — which you can download for free (otherwise $25 at Amazon). Most highly recommended. Total runtime an hour and twenty four minutes. Despair not!