Charles Dickens warned us

[usajumpedtheshark]

"Spirit! are they yours?” Scrooge could say no more.
“They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. "

Dickens observation, along with Pogo's, foretold the extinguishment of the beacon of hope from within. The slow suicide of our country as yet another human society fails and climate change threatens to wilt even our own small primate branch of the evolutionary tree.

[elleng]

1. Doom, unless the writing be erased.

[slumcamper]

2. Educators take heed!

[betsuni]

3. The most chilling part of the story.