Ecotopia

Zusatztext "A classic of earth consciousness." —Denis Hayes! original coordinator of Earth Day "Essential reading for all who care about the earth's future."—Fritjof Capra! author of The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point "None of the happy conditions in Ecotopia are beyond the technical or resource reach of our society."—Ralph Nader Informationen zum Autor Ernest Callenbach is also the author of Ecotopia Emerging, The Ecotopian Encyclopedia , and Publisher’s Lunch . He is the co-author of The Art of Friendship and Humphrey the Wayward Whale (with Christine Leefeldt) and of A Citizen Legislature (with Michael Phillips). He edits natural history books and the journal Film Quarterly at the University of California Press, and lectures on environmental topics all over the world. Klappentext A novel both timely and prophetic! Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today! set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the "newest name after Wells! Verne! Huxley! and Orwell!” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future. 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! this isolated! mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. Skeptical yet curious about this green new world! Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start! he's alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia's earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient "mini-cities” to eliminate urban sprawl! zero-tolerance pollution control! tree worship! ritual war games! and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged! his cynicism replaced by hope! Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds. (May 3) Here we go again, dear diary. A fresh notebook with all those blank pages waiting to be filled. Good to be on the way at last. Alleghenies already receding behind us like pale green ripples on an algae-covered pond. Thinking back to the actual beginnings of this trip–almost a year ago? Those careful hints dropped at the White House like crumbs for the President’s vacuum-cleaner mind to suck up. Until finally they coalesced into some kind of ball and came out as his own daring idea: okay, send some unofficial figure out there, purely informal–a reporter not to closely identified with the administration, who could nose around, blow up a few pretty trial balloons–can’t hurt! A tingly moment when he finally broached it, after a big Brazil briefing session. That famous confidential smile! And then saying that he had a little adventure in mind, wanted to discuss it with me privately. . . . Was his tentativeness only his habitual caution, or a signal that if anything went wrong the visit (and the visitor) were politically expendable? Still, an important opening in our foreign policy–lots of weighty arguments for it. Heal the fratricidal breach that rent the nation–so the continent can stand united against rising tides of starvation and revolution. Hawks who want to retake “lost last of the west” by force seem to be growing stronger–need neutralizing. Ecotopian ideas are seeping over the border more dangerously–can’t be ignored any longer, might be detoxified by exposure. Etc. Maybe we can find a hearing for proposal to reopen diplomatic relations; perhaps trade prop...

Product details

• Authors: E. Callenbach, Ernest Callenbach
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.1990
• EAN: 9780553348477
• ISBN: 978-0-553-34847-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Bantam Books
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature