Well, the jury’s come back in with a verdict and found the defendants guilty on both counts. Who is on trial?

We are.

The first crime we have been charged with is the systematic destruction of nature out of individual greed, and the resulting loss of community. The second crime we are accused of is grand theft consumption by the developed world of a billion people consuming thirty-two times the resources used by the other five billion human beings sharing this planet. If we are to continue at this rate, it’s estimated we’d need another four planets. Which - need it be said? - we don’t have. Our property is obviously more important than the lives of those five billion people.
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