You can't, there is no way to reverse this. The best thing to do is earn as little as one can, so as not to fund your destruction, and to get as far as you can from cities.

I disagree that fatalism is a meaningful course of action. Consider me a starfish thrower.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Thrower

An apt allagory of the situation. Stop collecting brownie points, and throw those stars!

The best way to help is to figure out how to teach kids to read, and to expand their vocabulary, before kindergarten. Pre-K is where the answers are: that’s when the brain is most plastic.