ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the idea of constitutional corporatism, a new form of political arrangement which might be needed to limit the power and influence that corporations now wield over governments and societies. One major driver of affluenza is the transnational corporation, an entity that wields disproportionate economic and political power in relation to its social and legal accountability. The carbon footprint is a way of measuring just the greenhouse gas emissions that are caused by a group, an organization or an event. The development of the global economy has failed to tackle the big inequalities between rich and poor countries. Time starvation is another feature of the increasingly frenzied lives that people now lead in the worlds most advanced affluenzic systems. In the Urr Dam case, the Colombian ministry of the environment was apparently unable to work in keeping with the existing legislation that was designed to protect the rights of indigenous people.
