Herblock attacks society’s wastefulness and over-consumption in this cartoon of planet Earth resting in a garbage can trailing ugly flotsam. He indicates the tangible, negative effects of such behavior—overcrowded landfills and pollution of Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. Over decades Herblock’s work manifested strong concern for the environment in cartoons that decried unchecked pollution, unsafe disposal of toxic wastes, and unlimited logging. His first daily cartoon, in fact, lamented the destruction of forests by clear-cutting.