It is contaminated with human and animal waste. But there isn't this sort of toxic soup out there,

It's a bacterial, or septic, soup, but it's not a toxic soup.

There is inconsistency in the information about the toxic waste.

The toxic soup is touching every square inch of the flooded areas,

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

Humans are the only animals on earth that have done nothing to improve our planet. We are the only animals that have done nothing to improve the life of another single species on this planet.