World watch.

• Author: Moore, LeRoy
• Position: FROM READERS - Letter to the editor

Just read your very thoughtful article ["Less Stuff"] in the latest World Watch. Seeing the environmental situation as coming down to a choice between sending our children to die for us or getting real about the problem is an apt way of stating things. Blunt but true. Thanks for doing this. The fact of your doing it puts you and the magazine right on the line.

I also liked very much the article on doing away with capitalism ["A New Capitalism--or a New World?"], by David Schweickart, a person of whom I'd not heard previously. His ideas about moving toward cooperative models of economy are very close to my own thinking in this area, on which I spent much time 20 or so years ago. I wish he'd pressed the idea of turning extant corporations into consumer/worker-owned and -controlled cooperatives, since this points to a vision of how people in extant companies can begin to get some leverage both within the companies and via...