Mass Murder - is it just the modern world?

I just read about a serial or perhaps spree killer in the Philippines who went on a rampage in the last month killing 9 people. They found him through his Facebook page. He was an educated and employed 28 year old computer tech. Yesterday, the news carried the arrest of a serial killer from the metro DC area, charged with the murder of two sets of mother/daughters and suspected of more. He is college educated and employed. The things that made these stand out are the foreignness of the first and the race of the second. Most [I read 85%] serial killers on record are white, middle class Americans. I'm wondering if we are just rubbing off on the rest of the world or if there is something else going on. I read one article which says it is a phenomena of urbanization and alienation. That would at least explain its increase over the last 100 years. It would be interesting to see if the spread of media is correlated with this phenomena, or is it that we just hear about it now, where once it was a local event. I had always assumed that civilization would lead to civilized people, but it seems to lead to the opposite. Or perhaps there are just so many more people in the world, that even a small percentage of deviates produce significant numbers of these killers. Nonetheless, it is depressing.

New York Times Energy Bill Editorial

The last EIGHT Presidents, Republican and Democratic have recognized the need for a complete overhaul of our energy policies and the likely need for a price on carbon, but NONE of them have followed through and the Congress has put its personal members political interest in front of the country's everytime. I'm only glad that I won't live to see the full results of their cowardice, but unfortunately, I have to live through the decline. Until there is a price on carbon, we quit subsidizing oil and coal, and we get serious about energy conservation, there will NEVER be life without an energy crisis of some kind. Meanwhile, China, with its authoritarian government, can continue to build a coal plant a week, while still making leaps forward to make itself the leader of green technology throughout the world. Maybe when it is too late for us to take the lead we will wake up to what we are doing to jobs, the climate, the environment, and the middle class in this country. We can point the finger at our "leaders" but we are the ones who put them there and failed to demand accountability from them. All this talk about the burden the deficit will place on your children and grandchildren is pontification, since there won't be a livable planet for them to grow up in and the jobs to pay the debt.