We, the privileged
of earth, have appropriated and exploited the
earth and all that is in it, the world and those who
dwell therein; we have founded our folly now even
upon the seas; and we have established the ineradicable marks
of our vandalism over the virginal, variegated, speechless
faces of the
earth and, by the billion, on the innocent and until now largely submissive
faces of the human family.