The UN estimates that in another 60 years we will be approaching 11 billion.

Photo: James Cridland (CC BY 2.0)Īccording to a feature series in New Scientist, “(t)here are 7.4 billion people on the planet – nearly three times as many as there were 60 years ago. We got death control-we got to match it with birth control.” ~Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room! Crowd. Less people have to be born, that’s the answer. We got more people who are living longer. “We got a plague of people, a disease of people infesting the world. I won an art competition when I was in grade school, for ‘Save the Animal Week’ or something – I drew a squirrel saying ‘We want more nuts!'” ~ Harry Harrison Key concepts I did write and draw for the school magazine, sort of half and half. (…) I wasn’t interested in writing very much when I was young, I was more of an artist. ‘My mother was from Russia and my paternal grandmother from Ireland, so it is easy enough to visualise a hiccup in time that might have had me in the Russian army, rather than the American one, or planting spuds for a living. “‘By an accident of time and space I was born in the New England state of Connecticut and grew up in New York City,’ he wrote in 1975. He was also co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.” More on Goodreads “Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey) was an American science fiction author best known for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973). Written in 1966 and set in 1999, Make Room! Make Room! is a witty and unnerving story about stretching the earth’s resources, and the human spirit, to breaking point.” More on Goodreads On Harry Harrison Soleil vert, a 1973 film based loosely upon Harrison’s novel Make Room! Make Room! Photo: CHRISTOPHER DOMBRES (CC0 1.0)

The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, loot and trample for lentil ‘steaks’ and are controlled by sinister barbed wire dropped from the sky. But it is difficult to catch a killer, let alone get the girl, in crazy streets crammed full of people. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure solve the crime and captivated by the victim’s beautiful girlfriend. “A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. ~Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room! Plot summary “One time we had the whole world in our hands, but we ate it and burned it and it’s gone now.”

Make room make room by harry harrison