![]() ![]() They became better-rounded people men in particular got more in touch with their "feminine" sides. They lowered their material expectations, found ways to enjoy their newfound leisure time, and derived more happiness from living harmoniously with nature. The standard of living declined, but most Ecotopians did not seem to mind. It prided itself on a "steady-state" (or no-growth) economy that recycled virtually all wastes, ran on solar power, and reduced the work week to 20 hours. The fictional new nation outlawed the internal combustion engine, did away with most cars, replaced many city streets with streams, and planted flowers in potholes. Set twenty-four years into the future, in 1999, the book portrayed how a part of the United States-northern California, Oregon, and Washington-had seceded from the rest of the country in 1980 and established the new country of "Ecotopia," an ecological utopia. In 1975 a Berkeley writer named Ernest Callenbach published the novel Ecotopia. Lesson Twenty-seven: Extinction in EcotopiaĮnvironment and Identity in the Late-20th-Century Pacific Northwest ![]()
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