This Earth, a tiny plot isolated in the vacuum of space, is already
overpopulated with people.

Its resources are being seriously depleted, polluted - food, clean air,
clean water, timber, oil.

But various facilities for selective culling have been available and
employed with ever-increasing efficiency for 58 years. Genetic Engineering
is being kept in reserve.

The question arises, who or what selects they who do the selecting ?