Once upon a time, there was a little child who had a pretty good life,
largely because his parents were exceedingly rich.
The little child's parents had gotten exceedingly rich, the only way they knew how: exploiting mineral rights, mass producing individually wrapped disposable products, skimping on environmental measures, such as pollution filters, CFC alternatives, eating only the dolphin-friendliest of tunas, etc. As a result, they had ruined the environment for their child, and by the time he inherited the Earth there was nothing left, and he died of asphyxiation.
The End