The story is set in the year 2430 A.D. The Earth has reached a state of total ecological and social equilibrium. However, this balance comes at a staggering price:
Written around the dawn of the modern environmental movement in the early 1970s, the story reflects contemporary anxieties regarding exponential population growth. Asimov accurately predicts how human expansion could lead to a massive loss of biodiversity, creating what scientists today refer to as the "Anthropocene" or the sixth mass extinction. 3. The Bureaucracy of Efficiency 2430 a.d. isaac asimov pdf
: A man named Cranwitz refuses to give up his pets—non-consumable plants and animals. Government workers, Alvarez and Bunting, try to persuade him that these "useless" lives must be eliminated for the greater good of human resource management. The story is set in the year 2430 A