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sickening reminder of the excrement, along with excess,
devastating effect of human indigestible hormones and other
carelessness on all of Earth’s chemicals emanating from the
creatures. At a symbolic level, the myriad tablets and artificial
work represents the ugly foodstuffs we imbibe. “Writ large,”
consequences of arrogant the very same pattern applies to the
anthropocentrism. The bird strikes human system as a whole. Humans
the condescending pose of a self- are perhaps unique among Earth’s
important politician, academic or creatures in the catastrophic
speech-maker, hands clasped creation of artificial waste that is
behind the long coat-tails, chest not capable of being used
puffed out, pontificating at length productively by another of life’s
about human superiority and natural, organic processes. Human
primacy, as “the masters and productive activities all over the
possessors” of nature, while it world imbibe “megatons” of single-
simultaneously “shits itself to use plastics, and these are, in effect,
death” right where it stands. The “excreted” by our systems in the
reminder is that plastics, especially form of the ubiquitous plastic
in the form of invisible micro- pollution that is slowly choking up
plastics, have become so integral to Earth’s digestive systems (rivers,
individual human bodies that they oceans and other creatures) to the
literally flow out of us in our point of death by starvation.
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