http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/tom-toles-cartoons-for-december-2011/2011/11/30/gIQABTl0DO_gallery.html#photo=4
This Tom Toles cartoon is making a statement about the current state of the environment, which is disgusting and disappointing. The cartoon is focused on a drawing of the earth, which is covered in smog from super-sized smokestacks and is actually dripping or has chunks taken out of it, with a heading of "Why we haven't been contacted by intelligent life on other planets:" Fish skeletons and oil spills are also featured to accentuate the existing mess of the planet. Toles means to say that people have been extremely negligent in their dealings with the environment, and that it has entered such a state of disrepair that no one already here would want to be part of it, which is a sad idea, considering not long ago, nature had unsurmountable and untainted beauty.
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