The two articles, links to which are provided below, one from the New York Times, the other from the Daily Telegraph, are closely related to one another. The first refers to the terrible damage being done by human activity to our planet, the second to an extreme, but nevertheless very characteristic, manifestation of the economic system responsible for such unsustainable, ultimately catastrophic, human activity.

'The Empty Ocean': Invisible Extinctions, May 25, 2003

The £61 million schoolboy who just does it for Nike, 24 May 2003