Introduction

The children of men, writ by the late p d james in 19 91, is a good spring board for analyzing this physical devastation and thinking about what can be done. The novel is the story of theodore ferren, a middle aged oxford academic with a divorced wife, a dead child, no relevant accomplishments to his name. He lives in the rapidly declining england of 20 21, a country literally on the way out because the last child born on earth had been born in 19 95. As england vanished from history, it is implied that the rest of europe has descended into anarchy.