[newheart]

It will eventually become a cold, dead wasteland, researchers say.

This is the way the world ends.

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

T.S.Eliot

[cripplecreek]

I know those lines only from the book “On the Beach” by Nevil Shute.

[cycle of discernment]

Really...and so did it get here?

[shibumi]

I also immediately thought of Eliot, but a different line:

"There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.