2011-06-17
Original: 2011-06-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
A hand-drawn line graph. The y-axis is labeled "NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO VIEW ENVIRONMENTALISM AS AN ETHICAL CONCERN". The x-axis is labeled "TIME". A red curve rises gradually, spikes to a sharp peak, then falls off and tapers toward zero. An arrow points to the peak with the label: "POLLUTANT-DUMPING TUBE TO SPACE INVENTED".
Votey:
Two people talking in speech bubbles.
Person 1: WHAT ABOUT THE RAINFORESTS?
Person 2: PUT 'EM IN THE SPACE TUBE?
A hand-drawn line graph. The y-axis is labeled "NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO VIEW ENVIRONMENTALISM AS AN ETHICAL CONCERN". The x-axis is labeled "TIME". A red curve rises gradually, spikes to a sharp peak, then falls off and tapers toward zero. An arrow points to the peak with the label: "POLLUTANT-DUMPING TUBE TO SPACE INVENTED".
Votey:
Two people talking in speech bubbles.
Person 1: WHAT ABOUT THE RAINFORESTS?
Person 2: PUT 'EM IN THE SPACE TUBE?
Alt text
A hand-drawn graph titled along the y-axis "Number of people who view environmentalism as an ethical concern" against an x-axis labeled "Time." A red curve rises slowly, spikes to a tall peak, then drops and trails off toward zero. An arrow points to the peak, labeled "Pollutant-dumping tube to space invented" — the joke being that once pollution can simply be dumped into space, almost no one cares about environmentalism anymore. Votey: two people talk in speech bubbles. One asks, "What about the rainforests?" The other replies, "Put 'em in the space tube?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.