The Dead Apes

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The rolling hills filled with leathery trunks, moss growing on rock, and miles of trees shaped like bronchioles were a memory of the past. The younger ones would never know them. Now everything was scorched and salted earth, dust, and death everywhere. Now the water was an uninhabitable plastic soup. And they knew the Civilized would eventually eat it all, any vestige left of their humanity included. So they knew the only possible reaction to this toxic…