I really enjoyed reading and giving proofreading suggestions on this one!
I think I was honestly amazed, that this article could pose such an expansive threat, and then actually detail the steps that could be taken to help solve it. The story shows immense consequences — and grueling efforts to lessen those consequences in the most dire of ways — yet, at the same time, immense restraint. The depicted Foundation realized the stakes and posed the moral question quite well, I think, given the circumstance. This story delves deeply into those stakes without feeling melodramatic or unnatural. There is no bravado in this article; the author knew exactly what they were writing.
I've often thought that, when writing an apocalyptic setting in fiction, a writer needs to be able to depict a world worth saving. A world in a story without life, without feeling, without weight or complexity, is a world not worth caring about. The author's attempts to think this concept through and then humanize it (per the final letter) are clear, and I can only commend them for it.
(Good work to the translator too!)
