How Many Whales Did You Kill Today?

Choire Sicha
The Awl
Published in
1 min readSep 24, 2010
YOU KILLED IT

“When a whale carcass washes ashore in California and investigators find 400 pounds of plastic in its stomach, we lament. How terrible, we say. What a tragedy. But do we believe a hardworking mother of three who doesn’t hike the freeway every Saturday picking up windblown plastic bags is a whale-killer? Of course she isn’t. Well, maybe she is.

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