Ah...now you're onto something. You are absolutely correct that control of money, land, resources, and society in general is being shifted from public representatives (the government) to N.G.O.'s. (the corporations). The government is giving over its power to the N.G.O.'s because the N.G.O.'s unofficially run the government. Why? Because they have most of the money! He who controls the pursestrings controls the politicians and their political parties, and he controls who runs for office and who gets elected. The politicians become merely corporate servants. Note how many people in the Bush administration were highly placed in the oil industry. The oil industry runs the Bush administration.

Corporatism is Big Brother.

Whether or not they are using the current environmental issues to extend their control is not clear to me...but I'm sure they will do so if they can find a way to.

For an interesting read try: "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins. It explains the rise and activities of the Corporatocracy since the end of WWII in great detail, and it names names. Written by a man who served the Corporatocracy faithfully for about half his life, and then couldn't take it any longer and bailed out. 20 years later, he finally dared to publish a book about it.

If they kill him now, it won't do them any good, because the book is already out there. Matter of fact, it might increase sales of the book if they did.

The really weird thing is that mega-corporations are a lot like Communism...in this sense: they massively centralize power and control in the hands of an untouchable elite.

They are utterly unlike Communism in outer style, because they gain power mainly through aggressive, profit-driven marketing of consumer items. But they are very like Communism in their monolithic centralization of power, their love affair with military production, and their tendency to make everything everywhere exactly the same (like the fast food and big retail chains you see around every town now).

They are the antithesis of small-scale individually creative local capitalism, and they do not establish freedom, they establish slavery.