Articulation of Environmental Issues in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Abstract

Today science and technology has casted its drastic impact on every sphere of human life and made it luxurious but it has also induced enormous intimidating dangers for human civilization. Though  environmental issues were thought to be trivial and unimportant yesterday, but they have loomed as a rigorous debate today in literary realms. The impetus of expeditiously growing industrialization and its subsequent hazardous effects on human beings foists literary think tanks to tackle this issue meticulously.  Ecological scientists anticipate that if current annihilating trends and strategies of environmental disaster are not dealt assiduously, sooner or later, the present society will be in horrible trouble. Dystopian fiction acts as a gruesome reminder in this regard as it arouses environmental issues and its detrimental effects on human being in futuristic perspective.

Keywords: Environment, Annihilation, Religion, Pollution, Human Civilization.