[nefmhpro] Extinction by incompetence

Create a series of stories in which a solution beneficial to all is easily available (perhaps technology), but human squabbling prevents it.  The stories progress with increasingly dire consequences for each failure.

Game theoretically: Prisoner's Dilemma, or maybe Coordination game, or Institutional Corruption.

Obviously parables for the real world; perhaps the challenge is to keep the stories entertaining (in a tragic way) and not too anvilicious.