4. A Species That Betrays

And this sobering News Bulletin from The Daily Triumph gets right to the heart of the matter:
A species that betrays its children will become extinct.

“There has been complete reduction in the number of variables,”
the Freedom Lovers say.
“We have but two choices, fellow citizens of Earth:
to walk this world in peace—or to let life get away.
It takes a savage crisis to create a great solution.
It takes a conscious choice to make a conscious resolution.
It takes a life of action to put evil in retraction.
There is no other way.
Reduction is complete,” the Freedom Lovers say.