Historic District Defender Pillows

Agatha! That clothesline is an aesthetic crime! We're in West Fester historic district. Your flapping underwear doesn't fit in! How do you think our ancestors dried their clothes, Prudence? I'll see you at the next town meeting. My underwear is as historic as it gets.

How did THAT get there? Wash me.

"...We've traced your lineage all the way back to a 15th-century East European Count."

The Ukraine, Europe and Fascism.

Nuclear waste.

"Someday, son, all this will be yours. It'll be under water, but still ..."

'Oh I don't mind you turning over my cups to look at the mark. But next time, please finish your tea.'

'Anti-Graffito' worker about to erase hieroglyphics.

"Now we're leaving the hall of stuff we stole from other cultures and entering the hall of stuff we paid too much for."

'If you don't stop biting your nails, you're going to ruin your teeth.'

"Don't you sometimes worry that if they do give us our stuff back we'll lose some of the sense of grievance that's so crucial to our cultural identity?"

Evolution.

'But we spend all our money creating toxic waste. We were hoping someone else would figure out how to detoxify it.'

Scot country dancing,

Pasadena Playhouse War

History Department: 'I used to be a revisionist myself, you know!'

Title page from 'The Scouring of the White Horse'.

'Daddy says, 'Better drowned than duffers if not duffers won't drown'. Well, let's just hope social services don't hear about this.'

"You're going to have to repeat the class for the third time because you miss so much during your Friday strikes...What's going to become of you?"

COP26 GLASGOW

Human Rights

Notre Dame Fire

The UN Forest. . . after its latest 3000 page climate report is released.

'No, not Cro-Magnon - something about it makes me think it's Neanderthal.'

"The government is going to fight climate change by rearranging the deckchairs on the iceberg."

'Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth - but not the oil and mineral rights.'

"Does the co-op board have any idea when the elevators will be replaced?"

"Batteries for environmentally friendly electric cars. . ."

Save The Planet! No Plastic Bags!

Gentrification vs Manchester...

'And there is the Black Sea, Dad?' 'No, no, this is the Gulf of Mexico.'

Demonstration - sign with 'The end is near', last man holds sign 'The end'.

“Oh, I almost forgot, and the polar ice caps. I want them to stop melting.”

'You've got a pretty nasty case of humans. Take two asteroids and call me in the morning. The side effects are rather unpleasant, but they only last few million years, then you'll be as good as new!'

'I worry that the warm glow from your sense of smug self-satisfaction could be harming the environment.'