“Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behend," David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it.”
The Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
The world of the Uglies is one of necessity. Instead of beautiful rain forests, stunning wildlife, and a beautiful earth just for convenience and cheapness. There are so many people on this earth that they need cows and they need to clear out the beautiful parts of the earth just to maintain and feed all of these people. I think this book is telling us to slow down because we're growing to be an outrageous size and we're over populated. The earth was not meant to have this many creatures on it, and if we're not careful we'll destroy everything that means anything to us. We'll kill the beautiful and replace it with what we think we need because of our rapidly increasing size.
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