We all know the great children’s book Where the Wild Things Are. But do you know what ended up happening to them? Why, the place was horribly exploited by oil- and gas-drilling and strip-mining, and now it’s just a wasteland! And now all the Wild Things are gone from there: extinct, victims of corporate greed.
Yes, once the Earth-raping corporate CEOs found out how easy it was just to journey to where the Wild Things are, and where the environmental regulations aren’t, they showed all their employees how to make their way there as well, bringing with them all their drilling and mining equipment. And then they drilled and mined the place dry of every natural resource it had, and they didn’t even bother cleaning it up afterwards either, seeing as how there were no laws requiring them to.
And so all the Wild Things were hunted down and chased off their land, and now the place is a toxic waste dump. And that’s why environmental regulations are so important and necessary.
