Energy Efficiency
Since the early 2000's the world has been more concerned with keeping the environment clean. Ever sine Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" we have been more cautious about what we do to harm the environment. In this book there is such an extreme set of rules everyone has to follow that there is no room to do anything wrong. Each person is responsible for making energy, and to make matters worse (or better concerning the environment) there is no form of transportation that requires any kind of fuel that has emissions. There is only one time in this book that you hear of any kind of transportation that has a fuel source other than people, and that is a train.
Everything is recycled, even people. When someone dies they are immediately sent to the recycle center, and the readers don't actually know what happens to them but something does. Nothing is wasted. Each citizen is given a specific amount of food and water in the morning and an amount for the evening. Nothing is wasted, and everything is reused. The people come second to the animals and the environment. The squirrels are overpopulated, and overfed. The area outside of where the people live is purely nature. the people are confined to this small space where there are not trees or grass. They can only see the nature from inside the gates of their home.
This kind of society is obviously very different to what we are used to. While we are not surrounded by nature, there are trees and flowers and things that we can see on a daily basis. These people don't really have that chance. Getting to hold a flower would be a treat. and picking them would be illegal. There are regulations on everything, and no one can grow their own food. The farm communities that provide the food are strictly regulated, and the audience does not know much about the plants or types of things they are growing for food.
Everything is recycled, even people. When someone dies they are immediately sent to the recycle center, and the readers don't actually know what happens to them but something does. Nothing is wasted. Each citizen is given a specific amount of food and water in the morning and an amount for the evening. Nothing is wasted, and everything is reused. The people come second to the animals and the environment. The squirrels are overpopulated, and overfed. The area outside of where the people live is purely nature. the people are confined to this small space where there are not trees or grass. They can only see the nature from inside the gates of their home.
This kind of society is obviously very different to what we are used to. While we are not surrounded by nature, there are trees and flowers and things that we can see on a daily basis. These people don't really have that chance. Getting to hold a flower would be a treat. and picking them would be illegal. There are regulations on everything, and no one can grow their own food. The farm communities that provide the food are strictly regulated, and the audience does not know much about the plants or types of things they are growing for food.
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