Ecotopia
| Title | Ecotopia
the notebooks and reports of William Weston |
|---|---|
| Author | Ernest Callenbach |
| Publication | Banyan Tree |
| Size | 172p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9780960432011 |
| Topics |
American fiction--Science fiction Human ecology--Fiction Ecofeminism |
| Notes | "Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. Like a modern Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed, horrified, and overwhelmed by Ecotopia's strange practices: employee ownership of farms and businesses, the twenty-hour work week, the fanatical elimination of pollution, "mini-cities" that defeat overcrowding, devotion to trees bordering on worship, a woman-dominated government, and bloody, ritual war games. Bombarded by innovative, unsettling ideas, set afire by a relationship with a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, Weston's conflict of values intensifies-and leads to a startling climax. |
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