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I think one that Pat give its due is the counterpart prequel to Ecotopia... Ecotopia Emerging. I read this book first and found it better written, and more engaging than the original. It really gives you a sense of how all those 'collective values' one sees in Ecotopia came to be - not by some sort of authoritarian hippie eco-mafia, but rather through traits which (albeit idealistically) worked in the lives of many different people, who all made the revolution possible.
I agree with rikeym that Callenbach does deserve for at least positing a future without the mental climate which we now find ourselves in. Certainly it has flaws, but I find great value in it anyway, if only to keep in the back of my mind as a model for a just and sustainable society.On Revisiting the 1970s eco-cult classic that gripped a nation posted 4 years, 6 months ago 10 Responses