At The End Ignoring the global curse of its ever-growing mass of toxic emissions twenty four hours a day savvy businessmen and their politicians say 'grow that economy' for this ever-growing seven billion population of ambitious consumers who are using more water than the weathering clouds can circle the World without, sending billions of plant buds with food sellers and buyers starving in global drought, burning in wildfires or drowning in flash floods. So even though most people and nations neglected to safely recycle their tons of no longer out-of-sight, out-of-mind trash, junk, smoke and fumes or carefully reduce their instinct-driven population, some of them rode a bicycle as a personal solution to any environmental abuse, assuming the planet would always keep right on growing and giving because after all that was how they earned their living.

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