Mini-Rant: Referencing

I find it difficult to believe that this is necessary.

This is the "art" of writing everything you've mentioned in a vaguely structured format -- which seems to change with every damn thing you write -- twice, each in a different style. Stick to one dammit. We surely don't need to write titles, authors, and dates twice.

Referencing will lead to the end of days.

Think about it, yeah. That bibliography is an extra page, two pages tacked on the end of every essay or academic book. Print those essays, sell a fuck-ton of those books, you're killing trees at a phenomenal rate. That extra page makes all the difference. Harvard and the MLA (Modern Language Association) are destroying the Amazon Rainforest with their bizarre fetish for writing things in an vaguely unnecessary and time-consuming format.

Eventually, the Amazon Rainforest will be destroyed by these extra pages, and more trees will be purged by paper-hungry scholars and academics, leading to less plants, meaning less photosynthesis in the world. Countries will die as oxygen runs out. Birds fall from the sky, dead rats infest cities and humans begin to perish. Asthmatics are the first to go, followed by the smokers. Soon, cities fall to a lack of oxygen; we are destroying trees faster than we can plant them. As time goes on, secondary research grows in both quantity and usage, meaning bibliographies outweigh the essays now. Entire countries, continents are left without oxygen, leading to the death of all wildlife. Humanity is the final species to fall and, as the final man (or woman #equality) at Harvard or the MLA has a slow, painful death, they realise that it is their doing that caused the End of Everything, haunting their final moments before everything goes dark. Dragged into the blistering fires of hell, this academic is forever burning, forever tortured for his crimes against existence itself.

And, as Earth lies a barren wasteland of a world, the only solace anyone can grasp is that they are dead, and not having to survive in a wilderness of desperation.

Referencing.