A million gallons of contaminated water spilled into the Animas River in southern Colorado.

“The main production of the modern and postmodern capitalist industry is precisely waste. We are postmodern being because we realize that all our aesthetical appealing consumption artifacts will eventually end up as leftovers, to the point that it will transform the earth into a vast waste land. You lose the sense of tragedy, you perceive progress as derisive.(contemptuous, ironic)

Jacques-Alain Miller, “The Desire of Lacan,” in lacanian ink, 14, (1999) p. 19.