Profit-Driven Systems Are Driving Us To Our Doom by Caitlin Johnstone

Our entire civilization is driven by the pursuit of profit, and to keep turning large profits your corporation needs to continually grow, and your corporation can't continually grow unless you're manufacturing a crappy product that needs to be continually replaced or supplemented, and you can't manufacture those replacements and supplementations without harvesting them from the flesh of a dying world.

Reading by Tim Foley.