How do we free ourselves from the controlling influence of multi-national corporations? "We are swimming in a sea shaped by corporate desires. They are not thinking beings they are structures shaped by blind reductionist thinking and ever larger scale and greater speed." ~ Helena Norberg-Hodge In this episode Amisha meets author, filmmaker and big-picture activist Helena Norberg-Hodge. Together they discuss the influence of multinational corporations in all areas of our lives, and what we can do as individuals to create systemic change. Helena's big-picture activism reveals the interdependent systems of corporate control and urbanisation that are behind our greatest challenges. She explains how the current epidemics of anxiety and depression, climate change and plastic pollution are caused directly by the actions of multi-national corporations and how a shift to localism holds the antidote to what ails us. Links from this episode and more at www.thefutureisbeautiful.co