America, the Beautiful

Mural reads: Oh, Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, for strip-mined mountain majesty, above the asphalt plains. America, America, man shed its waste on thee, and hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. ~ George Carlin

This mural is a parody of 'America, the Beautiful,' which is relevant to APES and the world because the real words of the song are becoming less true as the environment is degraded to resemble the parody song. The Statue of Liberty is wearing a gas mask because of the new anthropogenic (human made) pollution.