Beached Whale Bail-Out, from Nigel Davies
This story about 150 beached pilot whales struck me as having curious parallels to the humanity's recent troubles. Clearly there was some form of group error and for the whales just a 20% survival rate after bail-out.
GM Davies is the author of Play 1 e4 e5: A Complete Repertoire for Black, Everyman, 2005