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We can observe how the planet is deteriorating due to the ill behaviour of humans. Scientific inventions are rapidly increasing to facilitate all human needs. But the question persists: would these inventions be solving the climate crisis evolving around the globe without any entailment of ethics? The answer is going to be an absolute no. Margaret Atwood's works are incessantly voicing environmental issues at their best to the world's readers. Her works are replete with the themes and concerns of the environment and simultaneously present the atrocities done by anthropogenic activities on the environment. Her Maddaddam trilogy has presented the unhealthy nexus of humankind to the environment in which they inhabit. This paper is an attempt to highlight the degradation of the natural world through the reckless behaviour of humans in the MaddAddam trilogy and Islam ecocriticism to evoke the dead morality of humans. God (Allah in Arabic) has created the whole universe and every single atom and molecule it inhibits. Still, humankind is manipulating and exploiting this universe and environment according to their need. Islam says whatever God has created in this universe has a connection with humans, or we can say, ultimately belong to humans and suggests living in harmony with all the creations (like humans, trees, planets, animals, rivers, oceans and glaciers). Margaret Atwood displayed the reckless behaviour of humans toward their environment artistically through the mouthpiece of the characters. In this trilogy, two characters are presented in the dichotomy of their actions: scientists and the Gardeners. Scientists have created their world to avoid climate change and environmental degradation, which is full of high technology. In contrast, Gardeners have abandoned this worldly life, pledged to spend their lives in the lap of nature, and established their world far from the modern world. Environmental justice is also conspicuous in this trilogy.

Keywords: Margaret Atwood, Islam ecocriticism, Bioengineering, Anthropocentrism, eco/ego consciousness.