This is how life on earth, as we know it, will end … from the quiet whispers of billionaires reaching the ears of a dementia-addled president, hinting that certain carbon monitoring (and weather monitoring, and ocean monitoring, etc) is no longer needed.

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” C.S. Lewis