Wayward Independent Reading Book text-to-world

This book I am reading I have already started and I am a decent way into it, today I will be making a text-to-world connection that I have previously thought about while reading this book. In the book a town is sheltered from the outside world of a changed earth in the next century. The unknown threat to the townspeople is actually the remnants of humanity, morphed and disfigured by increasingly unstable genes. Humans, now four legged, translucent, hunting predators, evolved into these twisted things as their gene pool became increasingly worse. I have connected this to our world today because in our world similar things are happening; People rely more and more on technology, obesity is up, sickness spreads quickly, etc. People are just progressively  getting weaker and weaker just like in the book when they evolved into the twisted creatures. This connection is a good one because I connected the book's main conflict to someting very, very similar in real life. Who knows, maybe the author was intending the reason humans morphed into these things to actually be what is happening in society today. Everyday we hear more and more about conflict, sickness, and violence. This is one of the closest connections that I have ever been able to make between a sci-fi book and the real world today.