Here they would soar in the sun on their huge wings, looking for carcasses to eat. They're gone now, pushed out to make way for a far more efficient species, the Chevron pumpjack. That's why we lobbied Washington to privatize the Naval Petroleum Reserve in the Elk Hills, and it's why we give generously to the pro-extinction Wise Use movement. Because in today's world, it doesn't matter how long you've been filling your ecological niche. If you can't be at the top of the food chain, you might as well go extinct.
People Do Care.
Thousands of people and tonnes of equipment were flown into the Lake Kutubu region to develop Papua New Guinea's first commercial oil field. Yet today Lake Kutubu remains as beautiful as ever. That's because people cared as much about protecting the environment as they did about finding oil for Papua New Guinea. Now Papua New Guinea is enjoying the benefits of being an oil exporter and having ancestral lands protected by people who do care. Though sublimely appealing in His visage, Car, with His fearsome and all-consuming appetites, reigns as undisputed master of the modern world.