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| 7 | 37 | Could it not View more quotes about understand">understand that the environmental criminal was far more dangerous than the lonely madman or assassin, that his crime affected not isolated, tragic victims but communities, a planet, unborn generations. |
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| 7 | 34 | The very air men breathed there, the very food they ate, contained recognized, but, incredibly, not removed, toxic elements. |
| 7 | 35 | It was impossible, really, to do anything about such things, I had gathered. |
| 7 | 36 | What an incredible world Earth was. |
| 7 | 37 | Could it not understand that the environmental criminal was far more dangerous than the lonely madman or assassin, that his crime affected not isolated, tragic victims but communities, a planet, unborn generations. |
| 7 | 38 | Was his profit so sacred, truly? Was it truly more precious than lives, and the future? The men of Earth congratulated themselves smugly on the power of their democracies, in which the people, purportedly, ruled. |
| 7 | 39 | But if the people, truly, ruled, why and how could their planet's processes proceed in such obvious ways inimical to their welfare? How could their world be so miserable for the people if they were truly kings within it? But perhaps they were not kings within it. |
| 7 | 40 | Perhaps they have only been told they are kings, and that satisfies them. |