Paul Kingsnorth skriver om dengang Leopold Kohr, femti år tilbake i tid, forutså problemene med globalisering. "Wherever something is wrong, something is too big" - skrev Kohr, som var professor ved London School of Economics, og hvis råd er blitt avfeid, inntil man nå kikker nærmere på hva han skrev:
The crisis currently playing out on the world stage is a crisis of growth. Not, as we are regularly told, a crisis caused by too little growth, but by too much of it. Banks grew so big that their collapse would have brought down the entire global economy. To prevent this, they were bailed out with huge tranches of public money, which in turn is precipitating social crises on the streets of western nations. The European Union has grown so big, and so unaccountable, that it threatens to collapse in on itself. Corporations have grown so big that they are overwhelming democracies and building a global plutocracy to serve their own interests. The human economy as a whole has grown so big that it has been able to change the atmospheric composition of the planet and precipitate a mass extinction event.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/25/crisis-bigness-leopold-kohr