Famous first words,,,
Aye for life being precious, but then you have the illustrious conquests of Hitler and the Soviets... heck, to this day we're still reaming what's left of the people that once occupied two continents on this hemisphere.
Navahos are having the groundwater sucked out from under their feet just to transport coal to Las Vegas via sluice pipe instead of by rail like everyone else does while their kids play on mounds of uranium tailings .
Pimas watched their Pima River and lake turn permanently dry just so that gluttonous suburbanites in Arizona can have the most swimming pools per capita in the US. In a frikkin desert.