Written in the seventies at the elevation of the last eco - rage , Ernest Callenbach ’s classic utopian novel Ecotopia will scheme anyone who need to see what a sustainable environmentalist country might look like . astonishingly prescient , and unafraid to attend at the grim side of eco - fanaticism , Callenbach shows us a believable alternative United States whose commitment to things like public transportation , zero emissions , and recycling has pay off .
The nation of Ecotopia has been isolated from the United States for 20 long time , but at last they ’ve agreed to get in one American newsperson to see their closelipped nation . Once known as Northern California , Oregon and Washington , Ecotopia wrested its independence from the US in a fierce helicopter war over the Sierra Nevadas . Now ruled by an all - distaff administration , Ecotopia operate a unchanging - DoS economic system aim at maintaining full harmony with the environment . Market Street in San Francisco has become a river again . mass all have access to information processing system , they work only 20 hour per hebdomad , and have nice houses that can be mulched in an heartbeat . African - Americans go all the prisons . There are no sexual taboos . And every once in a while , a clump of men get together , do drug , and pour down each other just to get their warfare urge on out .
force has n’t gone away , and in some mode Ecotopia can only exist because the rest of the world continues to chug along in its polluted , industrial - capitalist land . newsman Will Weston is drive , but eventually seduced , by what he determine when he span the border into this strange new land .
Ralph Nader certify Ecotopia when it came out because it ’s one of those rarified volume that process as a political treatise while also being a damn entertaining read . If you ’re looking for another mankind to visit during this time of blatant consumption , Ecotopia is the ticket .
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