To answer question 2, I disagree with this post. I think it's pretty clear that the author's intention is to present humans as short-sighted and too detached from the world around them. As Greg pointed out in a different post, the PhDs are said to be apathetic, even in the face of such novel and terrifying events as the destruction of everyone and everything they'd ever known, and in living in a literal "Garden of Eden." These scientists, the last remnants of Earth society, are so detached and self-absorbed that they feel nothing, not sorrow over what they've lost or wonderment at the new world, and when they finally do reflect on their situation, years later, they're still focused on themselves, "This is the last of a man like me."
I don't think it's a coincidence that the final, hopeful note of the poem comes when the final humans are about to die.
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