In 1988, 6% of the Brazilian Amazon had been cut down 90,000 square miles, about the area of New England. Global alarm has arisen because of the changing weather patterns. The loss of forests has a great effect on the global carbon cycle. The extinction of as many as 173 species worldwide is happening every day. The human species acts like a virus -- they move in to a region and use all the resources. Once the land's nutrients necessary for any growing species is gone, the soil dies and the human moves to another region to initiate the same process.

The work was a criticism on the policies of recycling at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Even when in each building there were recycling containers and the material was picked up once a week, the policy was moot. The school seemed to act on the premise of a politically correct attitude, missing the opportunity of becoming an instrument that truly embraces recycling.

As an example, a simple change of the class registration process from a paper based system to a computerized process would save the school immense amounts of catalog printing:Catalogs 2001 to 2003:

Spring 2002                              #10,000                            $4,064
Spring 2003                              #7,350                              $11,568
Winter/Spring 2004                  #10,000                            $6,396

TV monitors running video loops of the current Amazonian massacre were placed inside of architectural sculpture built with Art Institute class schedule catalog overruns.