‘We’re facing a situation that’s like a major war; the biggest double-damned war anybody’s ever faced. We’ve got to stop thinking of our profits and start working with everything we’ve got to win. It’s victory or death, there’s no middle ground.
“What you’ve got to do,” he was saying quickly, knowing that he was running out of time, “is to make a voluntary statement, announce it in the world’s media, shout it as loud as you can, that your corporations will voluntarily place themselves at the command of the GEC for the length of this emergency period. You will follow GEC orders to do whatever is necessary to save the planet from the greenhouse cliff—but without relinquishing ownership or control of your companies. Got that? That’s the only way to work it. Voluntary cooperation. That’s the only way to beat this greenhouse disaster. Cooperate voluntarily with the GEC, let the bastards take all your profits—but run your companies yourselves! You know how to do that better than any desk-bound paper-shuffler.”
The door to his office burst open and Kate Williams strode in, with half her team behind her. “Daniel Hamilton Randolph, you are under arrest for kidnapping,” she said.
The window all went dark.