Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights is a 2004 book by Thom Hartmann. The book explains that the largest transnational corporations control most of the world's wealth and exert power over the lives of most of the world's citizens. According to the book, their CEOs are "unapproachable and live lives of nearly unimaginable wealth and luxury"; they value growth and profit and at any expense, and this has become destructive for life on Earth.[1][2][3]