It should be a continuing embarrassment. And someday there'll be enough compassion that we'll care as much about an American Indian as we do a prairie rat.

caused embarrassment.

[They haven't quite worked out yet how they will get over the embarrassment.] I imagine it will be an issue at first, ... Perhaps we should stand up and introduce our bodies to one another like at an AA meeting.

The compassion is instigated by the situation, and Godwin, a bit ham-handedly, belabors the situation so that there can be no doubt in the reader's mind, makes Marilyn sweet, young, and innocent (rather than a cold-blooded murderer or serial killer) so that reader will want to save her - and then the realization of "the cold equations" will be more effective.

We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand

My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns