Calvin: Hilf mir (hick) ihn (hick) loszuwerden (hick), diesen verdammten (hick) Hick (hick) Hickauf!Hobbes: Wie?Calvin: (Hick) Erschreck mich.Hobbes: Gut... Unsere Meere sind eine Müllkippe, wir haben ein Ozon­loch verursacht, das unseren Planeten versengt, wir häufen Atom­müll an, ohne zu wissen, wie wir ihn gefahrlos wieder loswerden ... Calvin: (Hick) Ich meine einen RICHTIGEN Schreck (hick)Hobbes: Das genügt nicht? Junge, bist du zynisch.

Bill Watterson, Calvin und Hobbes - Steil nach oben (Das 6. Album) (1992)

That was the sole lesson of their world: How to make waste, how top make machines that made more waste, how to make wasteful products, how to talk waste, how to study waste, how to design waste, how to cure people who were sickened by waste so they could be well enough to endure it, how to mobilize waste, legalize waste and how to sepise the culture that lived in cloth houses and shit on the ground far away from where they ate. And it would drown them one day, they would all sink into their own waste and the waste they had made of the world and then, finally they would know true peace and the happiness they had been looking for all along.

Toni Morrison, Tar Baby (1981)