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This research paper focuses on the fundamental ecological issues prevailing on the society and a need for ecological consciousness which is represented through the dystopian literature. Dystopian fiction raises the awareness and ecological consciousness in the readers by presenting the dangers and impediments which can occur in the near future due to the negligence of human actions towards ecology and also to the environmental well being. Dystopian literature portrays the serious environmental issues such as increase in global temperature, dangers of overuse of technology, harmful effects of radiation, pollution, water and food shortages, lack of organic agriculture, overpopulation, and extinction of wildlife species, deforestation and many other issues which could have a massive impact on the lives of both nature and human beings on earth. Many concepts and theories arose like ecocriticism to emphasis the harmony and relationship between human beings and nature. In turn human beings serves as a root cause for the imbalance in the ecosystem and the dystopian novels serves as tool to how humans should be responsible for their action of inaction towards the environment. Thus dystopian literature and writers aims to raise ecological consciousness by imagining the worst case scenarios where the prevailing anthropocentric and ecological unconsciousness could lead to the extinction of the human civilization in the near future.