Is this all humans are? Diminutive monsters of death and destruction? | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
'You want to know who we are? Really? You think you do, but you will
regret it. This article, if you have any love for the world, will inject
you with a venom – a soul-scraping sadness – without an obvious
antidote'
A dead elephant in the
Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, thought to have died after poachers
poisoned a salt lick with cyanide. Photograph: Aaron Ufumeli/EPA
