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Ecotopia

Ernest Callenbach · 1975 · Novel

Setting: near future (1999)

Synopsis

**Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston** is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the counterculture and the green movement in the 1970s and thereafter. The author himself claimed that the society he depicted in the book is not a true utopia (in the sense of a perfect society), but, while guided by societal intentions and values, was imperfect and in-process. Callenbach said of the story, in relation to Americans: "It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Nature conservationUtopiasLiterary CriticismFiction in EnglishFictionEnvironmentalismConservation of natural resourcesNonfictionHuman ecologyEnvironmentalists

isfdb_id: 3186099

openlibrary_id: OL1811933W

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