Industrial capitalism's very lifeblood courses through those pipes. Cars will clog the freeways and foul the air with noxious exhaust. Shell Oil will profit, stockholders will gloat and workers will be exploited. Boat decks awash with beer foam, empty cans and the slimy blood of huge fish with sad eyes and gaping holes in their flanks. Here's a methodical, relentless, point by point savaging of every principle they hold dear.
Heresy is one thing.
This is a 16th century Pope with Martin Luther, Mohammed and Beezlebub mooning him. The people surrounding us on the dive boat in Cozumel were New-Age divers from central casting. Cousteau Society and Sierra Club patches on their bags were a dead giveaway. They looked like classic yuppies from the northeast, jabbering excitedly about some purple-peckered parrotfish that ate from their hand. To the little Mayan divemasters we probably looked like part of the group.