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.