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1->''"Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. [[TakeThatAudience Thank God for that.]] Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. The planet will be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance."''
2-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeCarlin''' on "saving the planet"
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4->''"No more ashes, no more sackcloth\
5And an armband made of black cloth\
6Will some day never more adorn a sleeve.\
7For if the bomb that drops on you\
8Gets your friends and neighbours too,\
9There'll be nobody left behind to grieve!\
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11[...]\
12\
13And we will all bake together when we bake.\
14There'll be nobody present at the wake.\
15With complete participation\
16In that grand incineration,\
17Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak!"''
18-->-- '''Music/TomLehrer''', "We Will All Go Together When We Go", ''Music/AnEveningWastedWithTomLehrer''
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21->'''Baby Squirrel 1''': [[IntriguedByHumanity What are men]], Grandpa?\
22'''Baby Squirrel 2''': Yeah, Grandpa, what are men?\
23'''Grandpa Squirrel''': Huh? What's that?... Well there ain't no men in the world no more, sonnys... nope, no more men. [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters But as I remember the critters, well they was like monsters.]] They wore great big iron pots on their heads. They walked on their hind legs, and they carried terrible-looking shootin' irons with knives on the end of them. [[HumansAreCthulhu And their eyes flashed, and they had these tremendous big snoots, like this, that curled down and fastened onto their stomachs.]]\
24'''Baby Squirrel 1''': Ooh, Grandpa, I'm glad there ain't no more men around!\
25'''Baby Squirrel 2''': Gosh, me too!\
26'''Grandpa Squirrel''':I never could figure 'em out. [[HumansAreBastards They was the orneriest, cussedest, dag-nab tribe of varmints I ever did see.]] Why, they was always [[HumansKillWantonly a-fightin' and a-feudin' and a-shootin' at one another.]] They'd no sooner get one argument settled, then they'd find something else to fuss about. [[HumansAreDivided If it wasn't one durn thing, it was another.]] When they couldn't think of nothin' else to wrangle over, the flat-footed people started a-shooting at the [[AsianBuckTeeth buck-tooth]] [[ValuesDissonance people]], and the [[AnimalWrongsGroup vegetarians]] began [[MeatVersusVeggies to fight the meat-eating people]], and [[HumanityIsInsane you couldn't make head nor tail of it.]]
27-->-- ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth''
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30->''There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,\
31And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;\
32And frogs in the pool singing at night,\
33And wild plum trees in tremulous white;\
34Robins will wear their feathery fire,\
35Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;\
36And not one will know of the war, not one\
37Will care at last when it is done.\
38Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,\
39If mankind perished utterly;\
40And Spring herself when she woke at dawn\
41Would scarcely know that we were gone.''
42-->-- "There Will Come Soft Rains", '''Sara Teasdale'''
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44->''"This is Earth. Mankind's violent nature had resulted in many civil wars and five great world wars.\
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46During the last war, someone from somewhere launched a nuclear warhead into the South Pole. In a finishing blow to the existing problem of global warming, the water levels of the oceans rose, submerging most of the landmasses on the planet. The human population was decimated.\
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48There were some who believed in the future... And some who fled underground... Despite their efforts, mankind perished."''
49-->-- "From Man to Squid" comic, '''The Art of VideoGame/Splatoon1'''
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51->'''Elh:''' ''(summarizing from what they've learned)'' Long ago, the humans living in this world used both the Titano-Machina and Juno technology in a global war, eventually destroying the world which they fought on.\
52'''Béluga:''' Humanity. Such fools. Although… we may not be all that different from them.\
53'''Elh:''' I know what you mean… We've spent [[PurposeDrivenImmortality three hundred years]] watching this world, after all.\
54'''Béluga:''' Is our history going to simply end in destruction, too…?
55-->-- ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter''
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57->'''Trevor:''' And now he’s going to use her death as an excuse to destroy the world.\
58'''Alucard:''' Oh, the world will still be here, Belmont. Trees will still grow, birds will still sing, animals will still hump away in the undergrowth. But you won't be here. And ''you'' won't be here. None of you. The sun will still set, but you will not see it rise. There will only be Dracula and his war council, and the hordes of the night... Imagine it. A world without humans, under endless invented night. And Dracula in his castle, his revenge so horribly complete that there is nothing left to do but look out upon a world without art, or memory, or laughter, and know that he did his work well. That he did it all for love.
59-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017 Castlevania (2017)]]''
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61->''"The human race once had undisputed dominance over the whole planet. Their glittering cities covered the globe and even reached the moon. They could do anything, whenever they wanted. Nothing could stop them. And yet, after only a few thousand years, there is almost nothing left of them. Most don't even believe they ever existed. If I don't try to preserve their memory, then Earth's most successful species will soon be totally forgotten. And if that can happen, what hope do animals like us have of being remembered? [[ExistentialHorror What is the point of anything we do?]]"''
62-->-- '''Pipa''', ''Webcomic/InOurShadow'' [[https://tapas.io/episode/231947 page 57]]

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