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[–] Thisismyvoatusername ago 

I'm not sure what you mean by "[e]ven in 1976." The book is very much a product of its time. It was written well into the Cold War after all. It was also written well into the lifetime of the baby boomers. The selfish impulse of that generation didn't invent itself in the 80s. It was part of the culture from the 50s when they were little kids just beginning to be spoiled, which can be blamed on prior generations (like Asimov's). It is not an unusual feature of writing of the time to recognize mankind's self destructive tendencies.

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[–] smokratez [S] ago 

"I'm not sure what you mean by "[e]ven in 1976."

That one is easy. That is when the book was published.

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[–] Thisismyvoatusername ago 

Right, but so what? What about him writing it in 1976 (as opposed to some other time) do you find remarkable or surprising? Stated differently, if you didn't know it was written in the 70s, when would you have thought it was written?