The last non-human animals get killed off to make room for people.

In the 1950’s, Asimov wrote a number of cautionary tales whose blatantly obvious point was that Nuclear War Is a Bad Thing. This story isn’t much better—here, Overpopulation Is a Bad Thing, a point Asimov makes much better in his science essays and books like Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship and Our Angry Earth. This story is far too painfully heavy-handed to be pleasurable, and is hardly even readable.

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