The natural world on which we entirely depend is declining at a rate faster than at any time since the global catastrophe that exterminated the dinosaurs.
It's only, you know, a few generations ago that they were exterminated and yes, it was a real proud moment to see them swimming around here in this main pond at Paradise Fields again like they had never been absent.
Besides, from the ashes of the burned scraps of the whale, a potent lye is readily made; and whenever any adhesiveness from the back of the whale remains clinging to the side, that lye quickly exterminates it.
It sounds very Henry VIII that the brother would try to exterminate anyone who might be a possible successor to the throne or a challenge to his legitimacy.