The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because

And the mountains were hollowed out because the shovel convinced them that because its blade was made of metal, it was one of them, so the mountains kept voting for the shovel.😞

The responsibility to get a Green New Deal and to stop the ecocide was rejected by Murkans. Ordinary Murka is a one trick pony.