Unsatisfied with individual, voluntary actions and public debate of the ideas she promoted in The Story of Stuff, Leonard later produced curriculum called Let There Be—Stuff? for use in unsuspecting churches and synagogues. Cornwall Alliance National Spokesman Dr. E. Calvin Beisner critiqued that curriculum on Fox News Channel’sGlenn Beck on October 15, 2010.

Now Leonard uses her new video, The Story of Change, to tell people they must become political eco-activists lest, however unwittingly, they join in destroying the planet. “We can’t only talk about citizens voting with our dollars,” she begins. “Real change happens when citizens come together to demand rules that work.”

Leonard requires citizens’ corporate (read collectivist) political action to demand laws and regulations to change the market economy to a planned economy. She compares her desired overthrow of the economy to Gandhi’s non-violent protests to remove colonial rule from India. Ironically, she misses that mandating change through government always involves the threat of force—in this case, government force against those who would like to buy imported fruit or non-organic food or would in any other way fail to toe the environmentalist line.

Let me see if I have the logic down: Corporate interference with government destroys the planet, ruins our health, and robs us of happiness. The solution? Make government bigger! The peaceful means of exchange—people voluntarily buying and selling from each other—doesn’t achieve what Leonard wants, so she resorts to the violent means instead—the brute force of government.

Most of Leonard’s concerns are environmental. She says government must force consumer rationing through environmental reforms. Compare that to President Obama’s promise of sky-rocketing electricity prices to curb demand if he were elected. Does that kind of thinking show concern for the individual?

There is no end to the number of times Leonard asks for corporate action, mostly by a minority upon the majority. Behind her friendly demeanor lurks the cold heart of one who wants everyone (else!) to be the slave of the all-ruling state.

Leonard’s ignorance of what the world was like before the market economy—near-universal extreme poverty; high infant, child, and maternal mortality rates; short life expectancy; unsanitary filth dominating every human settlement; rampant disease, hunger, and starvation—is astounding.

“Instead of this dinosaur economy that focuses only on corporate profits,” she says, “we want a new economy that puts safe products, happy people, and a healthy planet first.”

Where do corporate profits come from if not from satisfying people’s demands for safe and useful products? What exactly does Leonard think has happened in the last century in America? We have not only innumerably more and better and safer products but also a healthier planet, with better nutrition, rising life expectancy, and less pollution. How many Americans today fear cholera, high infant mortality, or unsafe drinking water?

Are Americans also happier? It’s hard to tell—but only a materialist would think happiness comes from material things, whether televisions and health spas or a clean environment. At any rate, Leonard seems to think since the world isn’t perfect yet, people must not be trying.

To achieve the political change she wants, Leonard proposes three steps by “corporate citizens”: sharing this “new” idea, corporate unity despite “minority status,” and “action” to ensure its success. Whether that refers to a revolution of some sort, she doesn’t say. But she does say the movement needs certain types of people, including “resisters,” to ensure change. Interestingly, she speaks the word resisters before an animated picture of a protester with a “We are the 99%” sign in front of a bulldozer. Is she promoting violating property rights?

Leonard’s newest video claims to spark a new movement, to spread new ideas about a new economy and a new focus for our lives. What it really promotes is oppression by statist eco-masters, trapping people’s bodies in poverty and their minds under the tyranny of ignorance and group-think.

What lies at the root of Leonard’s confusions? She fails to understand the nature and calling of real human beings. Made in the image of God to be creative and productive as God is, men and women are called not to be the docile slaves, or the coddled wards, of totalitarian states but to exercise their God-given liberty to fill and rule the Earth (Genesis 1:27–28), enhancing its fruitfulness, beauty, and safety, to the glory of God and the benefit of their neighbors. That, not the deadening oppression of collectivism, is the path of love.