Title: Ecotopia
Author: Ernest Callenbach
Publisher: Folio SF
Year: 2021
Pages: 336 
Size: 11 x 18 x 1,5 cm
Language: French
Condition: like new
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Publisher’s summary:
Three states on the west coast of the United States — California, Oregon and the state of Washington — decide to secede and, in total isolation, build a radical ecological society called Ecotopia. Twenty years later, it is time to resume diplomatic relations between the two countries. For the first time, Ecotopia opens its borders to an American journalist, William Weston. Through the articles he sends to the Times-Post, he describes all aspects of Ecotopian society: women in power, self-management, decentralisation, twenty hours of weekly work and systematic recycling. At first sceptical, even cynical, William Weston experiences a profound inner transformation. His intense love story with an Ecotopian woman will put him before a crucial dilemma: choosing between two worlds. Utopian tale published in 1975, translated since then around the world, Ecotopia offers a concrete and desirable path for tomorrow, and in doing so acts as an antidote to the disaster unfolding.