Sperm Whales Found Full of Car Parts and Plastics

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12. We will kill everything

We will kill everything, from diatoms to whales and from plankton to peregrines, because "convenience".

We will kill everything from woodpeckers to walruses, because "low, LOW PRICES!!"

We will kill everything because we're too busy posting what we had for lunch online, or staring at our cell phones to learn more about what we need next to pay attention, because "aspirational" and "early adopter".

We will kill everything because we WILL NOT PAY ten cents more than the lowest price we can find at Amazon for Shiny Thing (TM), because "smart shopper".

We will kill everything, because "math is hard", "I never heard of that country", "How do you pronounce that?" and "Where?"

We will kill everything, because we're too busy obsessing about how awesome and special we are to be bothered to learn, because "God's chosen people", "crown of creation", "reaching for the stars".

And then, when everything - the inbound and the outbound, the living and the dead - have all been reduced to tailings, it will be our turn to kill ourselves.