n the future that seek to “make people love their servitude” (xix). This love of servitude is the stability of Brave New World. People are happy and ask no questions. They do their job (that they were created to do), have sex, take drugs, and happily accept death when they are sixty years old. In Brave New World Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, tells John the Savage: “The people are well off; they’re safe; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave” (Huxley 169). Harold Bloom describes Brave New World as “a nightmarish vision of the future in which science and technology are used to suppress human freedom” (8). Some of these nightmarish predictions may seem fantastic and extreme, but as Mr. Huxley asks, “by A.F. 600, who knows what may not be happening” (xx). Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is about freedom in the future, and his prophetic warnings about the loss of freedom due to increasing population, dwindling natural resources and advancing technology remain relevant and contemporary in today’s world.

In the contemporary world the population problem has not been solved. On the contrary it is becoming graver and more formidable with every passing year. It is against this grim biological background that all political, economic, and psychological dramas of our time are being played out. As the twentieth century wears on, as the new billions are added to the existing billions (there will be more than five and a half billions of us by the time my granddaughter is fifty), this biological background will advance, ever more menacingly, toward the front and center of the historical stage. The problems of rapidly increasing numbers in relation to natural resources and to social stability- this is now the central problem of mankind (6).

Mr. Huxley wrote this in 1946-about seven years before Watson and Crick explained the structure of the DNA molecule. In 1980 Richard J. Barnet called breakthroughs in genetic engineering “the most audacious technological fact in human history-the sudden glimpse of a power to shape the very stuff of life” (296). In February 19, 2001 issue of Time magazine shows two identical babies on the cover along with the words “Human Cloning is closer than you think”. The article reports that scientists around the world are planning on duplicating a human being- and are very close to doing so (47). A Time/CNN poll concluded that the vast majority of people view cloning human beings with alarm: “An uneasy sense that science is dragging us into the dark woods with no paths and no easy way to turn back” (50). Richard Barnett describes “an uncomfortable feeling that we are in a racing car without a driver” (15). And this was before the Human Genome Project.

In their book Full House, Lester brown and Hal Kane list six constraints that need to be taken into account when projecting future supply trends:

losing cropland at a rate that exceeds the rise in land productivity, initiating a long-term

We can produce enough food for five million people- but we have 7.3 million people. I am afraid that if the rate of population growth continues, we might have serious difficulties (Ehrlich, Ehrlich and Daly 255).

Five, countries that are already densely populated when they begin to industrialize risk

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