Not much about The name change

Yes, I did read the Atwood book. As gloomy as it may sound as a forecast of trends in applied biotechnology, I do not think that is the real point of the book. The backdrop of that story is a world in which we can no longer produce the food we need, and have drowned our coastal cities. The most serious indictment in the book, to me, is the projection of the trend of emerging corporate power and the increasing lack of moral judgment or concern for effects on common citizens on the part of corporations. If Merck and Halliburton merged, how far from this "work of fiction" would we be? How little would any government's efforts matter to them?