![]() ![]() ![]() Ecotopia Emerging is on my reading list, but it feels like I am living it every day. Politicians squabble over outdated agendas while the country declines." In 1981 he wrote a prequel called Ecotopia Emerging, in which he describes how society began to be changed from one in which "Toxic contamination of air, water, and food has become intolerable. It has answers for the person looking at what consumer capitalism has done to our planet, and asks "what can I do?" It serves up a working model of what-could-be, an alternative to our current race to extinction. I could love this book for that alone, but it has so much more to offer. No psychological warfare arm twisting victims into buying things they don't need in the name of profit in this sustainable society. Ads can only give factual information about products. ![]() In Ernest Callenbach's semi-utopian 1975 novel Ecotopia, advertising is strictly regulated. ![]()
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